Eric Wicklund

IBM’s financing arm has announced partnerships with four healthcare IT vendors in an effort to push electronic health records to providers ahead of the government’s incentive program.

Some companies just aren’t meant to go public.

With the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and Medicare’s Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program expected to dominate the headlines in 2010, developers of financial products for the healthcare market say the year’s buzzword should be accountability.

Lawson Software is looking to push its business intelligence to more areas of the healthcare setting with the acquisition of Healthvision.

A Boston-based developer of imaging and information management solutions is set to start the new year under new ownership.

API Healthcare is adding external staffing solutions to its human capital management portfolio with the acquisition of Clearview Staffing Software, Inc.

IBM’s financing arm has announced partnerships with four healthcare IT vendors in an effort to push electronic health records to providers ahead of the government’s incentive program.

D2 Sales, LLC, based in Mequon, Wis., has announced that the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati has completed pilot testing and is rolling out the company’s My Patient Passport Express healthcare check-in kiosk.

Alpha II has announced that Healthpac Computer Systems will add Alpha II's ClaimStaker claims scrubber application to its customer base, which includes radiology, cardiology, neurology and other office-based healthcare providers.

Verisk Health, Inc., a Waltham, Mass.-based developer of healthcare data analytics, has released DxCG Risk Solutions 3.0, a suite of risk adjustment and predictive modeling products designed to help healthcare organizations analyze, predict, manage and minimize healthcare risk and costs associated with commercial, Medicare and Medicaid populations.