M&A, Financial Reports and Funding
iMedX, a health care software company, has purchased MedTech Transcriptions...Consumer Health Technologies has acquired MyHealthFunds, a consumer-directed health care services company...Swiss drugmaker Roche will acquire Biolmagene, a vendor of digital pathology workflow and analysis software, for $100 million...The TriZetto Group, a privately held health IT firm, has acquired Tela Sourcing, a business process outsourcing services company, for an undisclosed sum.
Contracts
The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has selected Informatica's patient data platform...The Northern Virginia Regional Health Information Organization has selected GE Healthcare's EHR system; GE Healthcare has donated its Centricity Advance EHR software to the University of Texas-Austin for educational use...The Alabama Medicaid Agency has signed a $135 million, eight-year technology services contract with Hewlett-Packard.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has awarded Lockheed Martin two contracts worth $9 million over two years to develop real-world demonstrations and reference software for the Nationwide Health Information Network...CareCentrix, a provider of home health benefits management services, has awarded a contract to VRI Telemonitoring for telemonitoring medication adherence and medical alert systems support.
Product Development and Marketing
Bayview Center for Mental Health in Florida has partnered with MDLiveCare, a provider of advanced telehealth services, to provide e-services across the U.S...PHR company NoMoreClipboard has joined with the National Surgery Network to offer services to NSN patients.
Hewlett-Packard has partnered with IT consultant Global On-Line Computers under its Healthcare Elite Partner Program, giving Global the ability to sell HP products to health care practices...The California Emergency Management Agency has joined with Sprint to deploy the Commercial Mobile Alert System, a public safety tool that sends warnings and safety information through text message alerts.
Interoperable workflow programs provider Carefx has partnered with the University HealthSystem Consortium, a group of academic medical centers, to provide advanced business intelligence dashboards and analytical tools.
Personnel
Tim Thompson -- former CIO and senior vice president at the Methodist Hospital System in Houston -- has been named CIO at BayCare Health System in Florida...Kimberly Bustamante -- former director of finance and administration at the Maine Center for Public Health -- has been named manager of administration and finance at HealthInfoNet, a not-for-profit health IT firm.