M&A, Financial Reports and Funding
CareFusion, a vendor of medical products, will acquire Medegen, an infusion technology company, for $225 million...Management Health Solutions, a developer of hospital supply-tracking software, has acquired AtPar, a developer of portable hospital supply inventory-tracking software, for an undisclosed sum.
Allscripts-Misys Healthcare reported a Q3 2010 net income of $18.5 million on $179.9 million in revenue.
Contracts
Mercy Health System in Delaware will implement NextGen Healthcare Information Systems' NextGen EHR and NextGen Health Information Exchange systems...Main Line Health system in Pennsylvania has selected SunGard Availability Services to provide managed services for its primary data center.
Sacred Heart Medical Group in Florida will implement Allscripts-Misys Healthcare's practice management and Payerpath applications; Parkview Health Systems in Indiana has selected Allscripts-Misys' EHR, revenue cycle and practice management applications
Product Development & Marketing
MedQuist, a provider of technology-enabled clinical documentation services, and Artificial Medical Intelligence, a developer of health care informatics software, have formed a strategic partnership to provide computer-assisted coding within MedQuist's CodeRunner coding workflow application.
Personnel
Chris Snyder -- hospitalist and chief medical informatics officer at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Maryland -- has been appointed to the National Quality Forum's Health Information Technology Advisory Committee.
Joseph Smith -- former vice president for emerging technologies at Johnson and Johnson's Corporate Office of Science and Technology -- has been named chief medical and science officer at West Wireless Health Institute in California.