athenahealth has signed a contract to provide revenue cycle management services to Lourdes Medical Associates, a Haddon Heights, N.J.-based healthcare management association.
Lawson Software, based in St. Paul, Minn., has announced that Sanford Health & MeritCare, serving patients in the Dakotas, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska and Oklahoma, will deploy the company’s Enterprise Financial Management and Supply Chain Management suites, as well as Lawson Business Intelligence, Mobile Supply Chain Management and user productivity solutions Lawson Smart Office and Enterprise Search. In addition, the California Dental Association has implemented the Lawson S3 Enterprise Financial Management suite and Lawson Business Intelligence.
ASI Healthcare, a division of American Safety Insurance, now offers an optional Environmental Impairment Liability (ELI) coverage form for nursing home, assisted living and elder care facilities. The EIL form covers bodily injury to residents and the costs to clean, repair or remediate the facilities in the event of a “pollution event.”
Benefitfocus, based in Charleston, S.C., has been awarded a contract to develop a Web portal for the Maryland Health Care Commission. The Virtual Compare portal will be designed to allow small employers with 2-50 employees in Maryland to compare side-by-side benefit details, limitations, cost sharing and premiums for health plans offered by Maryland licensed insurers, non-profit health service plans and HMOs.
Management Health Solutions, Inc., a Fairfield, Conn.-based provider of supply chain management solutions to hospitals and healthcare providers, has announced the completion of a $7 million Series B equity investment led by Enhanced Equity Fund, LP, and Radius Ventures, LLC.
Picis, Inc., based in Wakefield, Mass., has announced that 53 healthcare facilities in the United States have been added to the company’s base of clients using its LYNX E/Point point-of-care revenue management solution for the emergency department.
Sage Healthcare, of Tampa, Fla., has announced that Healthcare Billing Consultants, Inc., located in central Pennsylvania, will deploy Sage Intergy for its practice management and analytics needs.
GE Healthcare is investing $3 million in the Technology Research for Independent Living (TRIL) Centre in Ireland. TRIL, co-founded in 2007 by Intel and academic partners the University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin and NUI Galway, seeks to explore the physician, cognitive and social consequences of aging and design technologies to help address them.
The Kramer Group, a provider of quality assurance registration solutions, has changed its name to Kramer Healthcare Technologies.
Wolters Kluwer Health, based in Philadelphia, has announced that Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, Calif., has selected ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, to automate the creation, deployment and maintenance of evidence-based order sets, which will be integrated into the hospital’s CPOE system. In addition, Brainerd Lakes Surgery Center in Baxter, Minn., will deploy the ProVation EHR electronic health record and patient charting solution.
Zynx Health, based in Los Angeles, has announced that Catholic Health East, a multi-institutional health system based in Newtown Square, Pa., will deploy the company’s ZynzOrder and ZynxCare order sets and plans to 18 of its acute care hospitals.
AmeriFleet Transportation, based in Atlanta, has enhanced its Complete Asset Recovery service with Prescription Drug Marketing Act (PDMA) certification, designed to meet the needs of customers requiring vehicle recoveries when there are pharmaceutical samples and other valuable assets in the vehicle.
McKesson has announced that the Family Health Network of Chicago will deploy the company’s CareEnhance Clinical Management Software (CCMS).
SUNRx, based in Bensalem, Pa., has announced that the Matagorda Episcopal Health Outreach Program of Bay City, Texas, has entered into a partnership with the company to provide discounted prescription drugs to low-income patients in the Bay City area through the 340B discount program.
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The Center for Health Value Innovation, based in St. Louis, has announced that the Carmichael, Calif.-based Foundation for Chiropractic Progress has joined the center’s list of participating companies.
Managed Care Solutions, Inc., based in Hollywood, Fla., has announced that it has successfully implemented its ASP Swift Revenue Cycle System at the Veterans Health Administration’s VISN 18 hospital group, a six-hospital system in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.
HealthEquity, Inc., based in Draper, Utah, has announced that it is partnering with First HSA, LLC, of Reading, Pa., to become the custodian and payment transaction processor for First HSA’s 43,000 health savings account holders.
Health Care Compliance Strategies, Inc., of Jericho, N.Y., has announced that MedStar Health, a network of nine hospitals and 20 health-related businesses in Maryland and Washington D.C., has selected the HCCS COI-SMART system for disclosure and management of conflicts of interest for its physicians, administrators and staff members.
Geonetric, a Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based developer of online solutions for the healthcare industry, has unveiled new mobile versions of Web sites for the Southern Regional Health System, Methodist Medical Center of Illinois and the Genesis Health System.
Pharmacy OneSource, based in Bellevue, Wash., will host a complimentary Webinar on Wednesday, May 12, from 1-2 p.m. EDT on “Beyond the Drug Budget: Documenting Pharmacy’s Impact on Overall Health System Costs.” The Webinar will be led by Doug DeJong, senior director of pharmacy for the Saint Luke’s Health System. The company has also launched the $1 Billion Intervention Challenge, a new campaign calling on hospital pharmacy clients to document more than $1 billion in pharmacist interventions in 2010.
NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc., of Horsham, Pa., has announced an agreement with the Sinai Medical Group of Chicago to deploy the NextGen EHR and Practice Management (PM) system.
MedAssurant, Inc., based in Bethesda, Md., has announced that the American Gastroenterological Association will join forces to launch the largest patient registry in the GI field, to be known as the AGA Digestive Health Outcomes Registry.
Ingenix, based in Eden Prairie, Minn., has added reference materials from Krames into its Ingenix CareTracker electronic health record system.
RollStream, Inc., a McLean, Va.-based provider of enterprise community management solutions, has announced the availability of its Supplier Master Data Management (MDM) services.
The Foundation for Health Coverage Education (FHCE), based in San Jose, Calif., has received a $50,000 grant from the Washington D.C.-based Health Coverage Foundation to assist Americans with chronic diseases in finding health insurance.
Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions of Chicago has announced that the Medical & Surgical Clinic of Irving, Texas, will implement the Allscripts Electronic Health Record solution for its 31 physicians.
ClinicTools, Inc., of Philadelphia, has rolled out a new electronic medical record platform for healthcare providers that’s designed with a patient treatment platform, patient appointment scheduling system, patient appointment reminder, employee management system, communication medium for healthcare providers and billing system.
Mevesi, Inc., of Orlando, Fla., a provider of software-as-a-service applications for pharmacies, has launched the Mevesi Rx bundle of applications, designed to simplify the management, integration and distribution of pharmaceutical information.
TCS Healthcare Technologies, based in Auburn, Calif., has announced that the Hudson Health Plan, a Tarrytown, N.Y.-based Medicaid managed care organization, will deploy Acuity Advanced Care.