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.