M&A, Financial Reports and Funding
McKesson, a health care IT and services provider, has acquired peerVue, a provider of radiology workflow and communication services, for an undisclosed sum...Recondo Technology, a developer of revenue cycle software, has acquired Trilogi, a revenue cycle management and recovery company, for an undisclosed sum...Avadyne Health -- a provider of patient-centric outsourced revenue cycle management services -- and Benchmark Revenue Management -- a provider of revenue cycle workflow tools for hospitals -- have merged.
MyCare, a clinical care technologies provider, has secured $1 million in seed round funding with contributions from multiple investors...PerfectServe, a provider of clinical communications services, has raised $10.9 million in Series C funding, with contributions from several investors.
Contracts
Kern Medical Center in California has selected McKesson's revenue cycle management system; McKesson also will provide Radiology Associates of Northern Kentucky with radiology billing services and financial reporting software...St. Mary's Hospital in Illinois has deployed Advanced ICU Care's critical care telemedicine program...a Denmark Ministry of Health agency has selected InterSystems Corporation's health care informatics system...Tennessee-based RegionalCare Hospital Partners has selected MediClick's Web-based supply chain and accounts payable tools.
The Upper Chesapeake Health system in Maryland has selected Forerun's advanced physician documentation software...NorthCrest Medical Center in Tennessee has selected Allscripts' EHR system...Swedish Medical Center in Washington State will deploy Aceso's interactive patient services delivery system at one of its campuses...Radiology Ltd., a system of nine imaging centers in Arizona, and Advanced Radiology of Columbia in Missouri will deploy Merge Healthcare's full suite of radiology applications; WellStar Health System in Georgia will implement Merge Healthcare's cardiology imaging management system.
Karos Health -- a clinical information exchange and storage facility in Ontario, Canada -- will deploy CGI Group's diagnostic imaging document sharing system...the Arkansas Office of Health Information Technology will deploy OptumInsight's health information exchange tools...the Indiana Health Information Exchange will implement AT&T's clinical message exchange system in three state hospitals.
Product Development and Marketing
Anthelio, a provider of health IT and business process services, will assist Healthland, a provider of health IT services to rural and critical access health care providers, with migrating Healthland's clients to a new EHR system...Skylight Healthcare Systems, a provider of interactive patient care systems, will collaborate with Sparling, a technology consulting and engineering firm, on projects to improve and enhance patient experience...the online health network ABILITY Network has partnered with gloStream to provide direct communications support for its EHR system... MetaSource, a provider of business processing services, has partnered with APEX Print Technologies, a statement processing provider, to offer clients expanded revenue cycle management capabilities through its medical banking application.
Personnel
John Calabro -- former health IT coordinator for Oklahoma's health information exchange -- has been named managing director for health IT at Cognosante, a health IT services provider...Peter Goepfrich -- former CFO of Vital images, a provider of advanced visualization and analysis software -- has been named CFO at API Healthcare, a vendor of workforce management tools...Cleland Landlot -- former CMO and COO at Novellus Research Sites, a clinical research company -- has been appointed to the board of advisors at Perminova, a developer of Web-based cardiology software.