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Quest Diagnostics Taps ELINCS for Data Hub

Quest Diagnostics, a leading provider of diagnostic testing, has implemented the ELINCS lab standard in its national data exchange hub, making it easier for physicians to electronically access Quest Diagnostics lab results.

Paper to Electronic Charts Made Easy

Community clinics with experience making the transition from paper to electronic records share the strategies, techniques, and insights they learned along the way.

Telehealth Project to Provide Dental Care

Low-income families will receive free dental care, thanks to the Virtual Dental Home, a telehealth project supported by CHCF and other funders. The four-year pilot project will eventually operate in nine California communities.

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Business and Finance

Friday, November 20, 2009

Health IT Business News Roundup for the Week of November 20, 2009

M&A, Financial Reports and Funding

QHR Technologies will acquire Clinicare, a vendor of physician practice management and EHR software, for $5 million...Harris Corp., a communications and IT company, has acquired Patriot Technologies, a privately held provider of health IT-related systems to the federal government, for an undisclosed sum.

Contracts

Neighborhood Healthcare, a not-for-profit community health group in California, has selected eClinicalWorks' EHR, practice management and Enterprise Business Optimizer applications...HHS has awarded Computer Sciences Corp. a three-year contract to compete on various IT task orders.

Johns Hopkins Health System in Maryland has selected Carefx's Fusionfx workflow software and Imprivata's OneSign employee access management platform...the NYU Langone Trinity Center has begun to implement Epic Systems' EHR system.

Tufts Medical Center in Massachusetts has selected Wolters Kluwer Health's ProVation evidence-based order sets...Image Movement of Montana, a consortium of 30 state health care facilities, will implement DR Systems' electronic medical information exchange system.

Personnel

Michele Perry -- former chief marketing officer for Sourcefire, a developer of network security software and hardware -- has been named COO of GetWellNetwork, a provider of inpatient Internet and communication services.



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