TeleHealth Services, a Raleigh, N.C.-based provider of on-demand patient and staff education and communications services, has announced a master agreement with Meridian Health, a New Jersey-based not-for-profit health system.
Initiate Systems, Inc., a Chicago-based developer of master data management and interoperable health solutions, has announced an agreement with Accenx, an Irvine, Calif.-based provider of health information exchange solutions, to allow Accenx to offer fully managed, remote hosting of Initiate Patient for healthcare customers.
LiveData, Inc., of Cambridge, Mass., has announced that Michigan's St. Joseph Mercy Hospital has completed the first phase of deploying the LiveData OR-Dashboard patient safety system. In addition, The Johns Hopkins Hospital has chosen to implement the LiveData OR-Dashboard in a joint system that includes displays and infrastructure components developed by KARL STORZ Endoscopy-America, Inc.
IBM has signed a deal with Kaiser Permanente, based in Oakland, Calif., to manage Kaiser Permanente's data center operations, including computer systems, storage systems and associated software. The company is also partnering with the U.S. Social Security Administration and MedVirginia to power an electronic medical records exchange for the Virginia-based health information exchange, part of the Department of Health and Human Services' Nationwide Health Information Exchange Cooperative.
Carestream Health of Rochester, N.Y., has announced that the University of Notre Dame is using in vivo and in vitro optical molecular imaging technology from Carestream Molecular Imaging as part of its research of infectious disease, bone disease, cancer and other medical applications. The company has also signed contracts for of portfolio of digital radiography (DR) imaging systems with AOS Medical Center of Glendale, Calif., Doctors Community Hospital of Lanham, Md., The Reading Hospital and Medical Center in West Reading, Pa., and Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.
GE Healthcare has announced that successful implementation of a Centricity Digital Imaging Repository (DI-r) that connects hospitals and medical centers throughout southwestern Ontario in Canada.
Greenway Medical Technologies of Carrollton, Ga., has announced that 1,000th connection of PrimeExchange, the company's standards-based interoperability engine that allows data to be electronically shared between physicians and healthcare facilities.
The Eclipsys Corporation of Atlanta has announced that long-time client Blessing Hospital of Quincy, Ill., will deploy the company's Sunrise Enterprise revenue cycle solutions.
Atlanta-based McKesson has announced that Ohio State University Pathology Services of Columbus, Ohio, will implement the company's Revenue Management Solutions (RMS) product to manage medical billing and accounts receivable for its professional component of clinical pathology charges.
MedAvant Healthcare Solutions of Santa Ana, Calif., has changed its name, as of March 18, to Capario.
Global Data Systems, Inc., of Pembroke, Mass., has announced an agreement with InstallFree, Inc. of Stamford, Conn., to all GDS to include InstallFree's application and desktop virtualization solutions as part of its IT solution and services to healthcare customers.
MediSolution, Ltd., a Toronto-based provider of enterprise resource planning and blood bank software, has announced an agreement with Brookfield Asset Management, Inc., whereby Brookfield will acquire all of the outstanding common shares of MediSolution not already owned by Brookfield or its affiliates for 30 cents per share in cash, representing a total cash consideration of approximately $19 million.
Acclaris, a Tampa, Fla.-based developer of consumer-driven healthcare technology such as health savings accounts, has secured $5 million in financing to accelerate its expansion.
Protocol Driven Healthcare of Bernardsville, N.J., has released a short form of its ConXus Profile health risk assessment. The shorter format facilitates completion by people with low literacy and reduces processing costs of paper assessments. The short form doesn't replace the original, longer HRA, but joins PDHI's suite of ConXus applications.
Nuance Communications has released its Dragon Medical 10 speech recognition software in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Vemics, Inc., of Nanuet, N.Y., has released iMedicor 2.0, an expanded and enhanced version of its online healthcare communications portal.
Passport Health Communications, Inc., a Franklin, Tenn.-based provider of revenue cycle management software and services, has announced a partnership with eSolutions, Inc., a Web-based provider of revenue cycle management tools with headquarters in Olathe, Kan. Under the agreement, Passport will provide its patient insurance eligibility data and services to be resold to eSolutions' physician practice and other healthcare provider clients.
AllOne Health, based in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., has announced deals with the Significa Insurance Group, a national health insurance company offering programs to small employers in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Arizona, and Erin Group Administrators, a third-party administrator, to implement AllOne Mobile, a wireless application that manages personal health data and is secured by Diversinet, to customers in Arizona, Washington D.C., Maryland, Ohio, South Carolina and Virginia.
The LUMEDX Corporation of Oakland, Calif., has released new software designed to collect interventional radiology procedural information at the point of care.
PhoneDOCTORx, a New Bedford, Mass.-based provider of healthcare videconferencing solutions for nursing homes, has announced that the Weymouth Health Care Center of Weymouth, Mass., an affiliate of HealthBridge Management, Inc., will use the company's videoconferencing technology.
MxSecure, Inc., a Scottsdale, Ariz.-based provider of medical transcription services to group practices, multi-specialty clinics and community health centers, has completed a custom transcription to document management software interface for Roanoke Neurological Associates of Roanoke, Va., allowing the practice to import document and reports transcribed by MxSecure into its Allscripts document management system.
The Medsphere Systems Corporation of Carlsbad, Calif., has announced the successful launch of Medsphere University, a specialized training and certification program for the implementation of the company's OpenVista electronic health record solution. The program was first put to use for 16 consultants from maxIT, a Westfield, Ind.-based HIT consulting company.
McKesson Provider Solutions of Atlanta has announced that Abington Memorial Hospital in Abington, Pa., will replace 26 disparate systems from various vendors with the company's Horizon Enterprise Revenue Management solution.
Logical Images of Rochester, N.Y., has announced that the U.S. Department of Defense Military Health System has licensed the company's VisualDx as the first diagnostic decision support system to be deployed in 75 major military hospitals and 461 clinics worldwide.
