Eric Wicklund

Concerro, a San Diego-based developer of open-shift and workforce management software, is getting into the disaster-planning business.

Continuing its high-profile effort to push the adoption of electronic health records among physicians, Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions has announced yet another reseller agreement with a key distributor of IT products to practices.

Targeting a $150-billion-a-year chink in the nation’s healthcare armor, Ingenix is shoring up its payment accuracy technology with the acquisition of AIM Healthcare Services, Inc.

A developer of real-time location systems (RTLS) for hospitals has developed a new device designed to help patients with heart problems move about more freely and hospitals to keep better tabs on their valuable resources.

A group of well-known healthcare IT vendors have launched a joint effort to educate physicians across the country on the benefits of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

With nationwide implementation of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program less than a year away, healthcare IT vendors are flooding the market with products designed to help providers deal with audits.

In a state where healthcare has sometimes been delivered by telephone, snowmobile or even dogsled, a couple of recent IT implementations aim to make life a little bit easier.

R. Andrew Eckert, who as CEO of the Eclipsys Corp. saw the company through a restructuring in 2006 and back to prosperity, is stepping down from the helm of the Atlanta-based company and will be replaced by a well-known industry insider.

A group of well-known healthcare IT vendors on Thursday launched a joint effort to educate physicians across the country on the benefits of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

A group of American and British healthcare IT vendors have banded together to package their products for overseas use.