M&A, Financial Reports and Funding
HealthSmart Holdings -- a claims management, predictive modeling and pharmacy services provider -- has acquired Wells Fargo Third Party Administrators for an undisclosed sum...Accelrys, a vendor of R&D software and services, has acquired VelQuest, a software vendor for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, for an undisclosed sum...SXC Health Solutions, a health IT and pharmacy benefit management services provider, has acquired PBM services firm HealthTrans for $250 million in cash.
The TriZetto Group, a vendor of health payer software, has acquired Medical Data Express, a transactions processing vendor, for an undisclosed sum...Yardi Systems, a property management software company, has acquired ALMSA, a developer of EHR and e-prescription software for long-term care facilities, for an undisclosed sum.
PatientKeeper, a provider of physician health care information systems, has raised $6 million in growth capital from multiple investors...Physicians Interactive Holdings, a provider of mobile and Internet-based clinical tools for health care professionals, will receive up to $17 million from Merck's Global Health Innovation Fund to expand its product development and customer applications.
Contracts
The Premier healthcare alliance, a performance improvement organization, has selected Authentidate's remote patient monitoring tools...United Outstanding Physicians, a physician organization in Michigan, will deploy Amagine's e-prescribing application...Biggs Gridley Memorial Hospital in California and Colorado-Fayette Medical Center have selected Prognosis Health Information Systems' clinical and financial system and EHR application...Albany Area Primary Health Care in Georgia will deploy eClinicalWorks' EHR system.
The Utah Health Exchange has selected Cognosante, a provider of health IT services, to help design the state's health insurance exchange...Doctor's Medical Center in Florida has selected Vitera Healthcare Solutions' EHR and practice management systems...Mammoth Hospital in California has selected Allscripts' revenue cycle and practice management software.
Product Development and Marketing
Polyglot Systems, a provider of health care communications tools, and HEALTHeLINK, a not-for-profit clinical information exchange and health IT provider, are collaborating to improve medication adherence in eight New York counties...the American Society of Plastic Surgeons will provide its members with access to eClinicalWorks' customized EHR tools...ZirMed, a provider of revenue cycle management tools, is partnering with AmkaiSolutions, a provider of administrative and clinical information management systems, to offer AmkaiSolutions' clients access to its applications.
Personnel
Gail Naughton -- chair and CEO of Histogen, a regenerative medicine company -- has been appointed to the board of advisers at Perminova, a developer of online cardiology software...Micky Tripathi -- president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative -- has been named chair of the eHealth Initiative's board of directors for 2012; Daniel Garrett -- a partner and Health Industry IT Practice Leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers -- has been named vice chair; Steven Stack -- a member of the American Medical Association board of trustees -- has been named as a member of the board's Executive Committee; and Jack Lewin -- CEO of the American College of Cardiology -- has been named as the board's treasurer.
Sharon Alford -- former vice president of carrier relations for HealthCompare Insurance Services, an online-based health insurer -- has been named vice president of sales and marketing at Dynamic Healthcare Systems, a vendor of Medicare-focused health plan applications...Michael Raymer -- a former health care applications designer at Microsoft -- has been named senior vice president of solutions management at MedQuist Holdings, a provider of integrated clinical documentation services.