M&A, Financial Reports and Funding
Hyland Software, a vendor of enterprise content management systems, has purchased eWebHealth, a provider of hosted medical record and workflow applications, for an undisclosed sum.
Contracts
Methodist Hospital System in Houston will deploy NCR's Patient Portal, MediKiosk, Wayfinding and Payment Manager systems...Physician Associates in Florida has implemented PatientPoint's kiosk platform for patient check-in and intake processes...Provena Health System in Illinois and Indiana has selected ARAMARK Healthcare to provide clinical technology services.
Riverside Medical Group in Virginia has deployed Phytel's Proactive Patient Outreach system to improve notifications about recommended preventive care...Cumberland Pediatrics Independent Practice Association in Tennessee has selected Informatics Corporation of America's CareAlignT decision-support application.
API Healthcare has announced that its workforce management applications have been implemented by: El Centro Regional Medical Center in California, Georgetown Hospital System in South Carolina, Huntsville Memorial Hospital in Texas, NorthShore University HealthSystem in Illinois, Phoebe Putney Health System in Georgia, Premier Health Partners in Ohio and University of Iowa Health Care in Iowa.
Lakeland Regional Medical Center in Florida also has selected API Healthcare's human capital management and remote hosting applications...Sandhills Physicians in North Carolina has selected eClinicalWorks' integrated EHR and practice management software for its member physician practices.
Adventist Health System has selected Aeroscout's temperature monitoring and management system...Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems has signed an agreement to purchase DataGen's line of health care analytics products, including Medicare and Medicaid reporting services.
Northshore-Long Island Jewish Health System in New York has selected Kronos' management applications for time, attendance and employee scheduling...Hartford Hospital in Connecticut has announced plan's to implement NextGate's MatchMatrix indexing system for a health data exchange initiative and a separate workflow integration project.
Product Development & Marketing
Indigo Identityware has entered a strategic partnership with gMed to offer its identity and access management systems as a complement to gMed's EHR software products...Medicity, a vendor of health information exchange technology, has announced plans to develop a national health data exchange with Emdeon, a provider of financial and administrative health data exchange systems.
Health IT services firm Keane has announced a partnership with EmpowerSystems to provide a comprehensive clinical module for emergency departments...athenahealth, a vendor of Web-based EHR and practice management applications, is partnering with Sermo, an online physician community, to develop an index for measuring physician sentiments on health care issues.
Aruba Networks, a provider of wireless network and secure mobility systems, has partnered with Motion Computing, a provider of mobile computing services, to offer an integrated communication and data access system for clinical settings...Venyu, a provider of data protection and recovery services, has announced a strategic partnership with Insite One, a provider of medical data archiving and exchange systems, to offer data protection and delivery services with InSite's Index Enterprise Archive system.
Royal Philips Electronics has announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft to expand on Philips Healthcare's health informatics and clinical decision support applications...Dell is partnering with the American Medical Association to develop a resource collection and communication platform designed to help health care providers adopt health IT tools.
Google has announced that it will integrate its PHR platform with Surescripts' electronic prescribing network to help users create prescription histories...Surescripts also has announced a strategic partnership to develop a physician resource platform with Quest Diagnostics, a provider of diagnostic testing, information and services.
Greenway Medical Technologies has announced that it will supply its PrimeSuite EHR and interoperability system for Take Care Employer Solutions' workplace-based health centers...HIMSS Analytics will partner with the Advisory Board Company to develop business-focused research on the health IT industry. The Advisory Board Company produces iHealthBeat for the California HealthCare Foundation.
Personnel
William Jessee will retire from his post as president and CEO of the Medical Group Management Association in the fall of 2011...John Zaleski, a former executive at Philips Research and Siemens Health Services, has been named vice president of clinical applications and chief technology officer at Nuvon, a provider of real-time medical data platforms.
Mark Long -- former CTO at PortBlue, a developer of software-as-a-service applications -- has been named CTO of Zynx Health, a provider of clinical decision support systems...Amir Jafri -- former Cardinal Health executive -- has been named COO of the West Wireless Health Institute...WWHI also named Mitul Shah -- former UN Foundation executive -- senior director of programs.
Arien Malec -- vice president of product management and strategy in the Relay Health division of McKesson -- will take a leave of absence to lead the NHIN Direct project at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.