The S/T Health Group has signed an agreement to provide discounted invoice price verification and recovery services for Premier Purchasing Partners members.
Gold Standard, Inc of Tampa, Fla. has announced that ChainDrugStore.net will integrate the company's OnFormulary health plan formulary management tool into its Web-based communications network that links pharmacies with more than 200 manufacturing and managed care organizations.
Extend Benefits Group, Inc., a Burlingame, Calif.-based provider of defined contribution healthcare solutions to Fortune 500 companies, has secured $15 million in Series B funding led by New York-based Psilos Group Managers and joined by existing investor Revolution Health Group of Washington D.C. Extend Health will use the funding to serve its customer base and has changed its name to Extend Health, Inc. to better reflect the breadth of programs it is offering.
HealthEdge Software of Burlington, Mass. has announced a partnership with Exstream Software, a provider of enterprise document automation software for the healthcare industry. Exstream's Dialogue software solution will be embedded into HealthRules Payor, HealthEdge's claims administration platform.
Healthcare Management Systems, Inc. of Nashville, Tenn. has announced that Mountainside Hospital in Montclair, N.J. has selected the company to supply an integrated hospital information system of clinical and financial software.
MZI HealthCare LLC of Valencia, Calif. and Longwood, Fla. has announced that Accountable Health Care IPA in Los Angeles has selected EZ-CAP benefit administration software to automate its claims processing and benefits administration and EZ-EDI to help simplify the complexities of formatting HIPAA transactions.
Revasyst LLC, a provider of revenue cycle management solutions to healthcare entities, has announced it is moving its headquarters from New Jersey to Owensboro, Ky., where it will become the first tenant of The Greater Owensboro Economic Development Corp.'s Emerging Ventures Center of Innovation. The company recently signed Owensboro Medical Health System as its "flagship client."
Health Systems Solutions, Inc. of Tampa, Fla. has launched PPS Blueprint, a financial impact and forecasting platform built specifically for home healthcare agencies to prepare for 2008 PPS changes.
Revenue Management Solutions of Oklahoma City has signed an agreement with Resource Knowledge Management of Dallas to market RMS healthcare transaction processing network-based services.
Dynamic Healthcare Systems, an Irvine, Calif.-based provider of solutions for Medicare-focused health MSOs and plans, has announced that Priority Health, a Michigan-based health plan with more than 585,000 members, has purchased the company's Voyager product suite, with Medicare Advantage management capabilities, to automate and streamline back office operations.
The Foresight Corporation, a Dublin, Ohio-based provider of healthcare transaction analytics, has signed an interoperability agreement with Sun Microsystems, Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif. to ensure interoperability of certain software developed by both companies. In addition, Foresight has licensed certain technologies to Sun to enable and maintain long-term product engineering compatibility and interoperability for customer applications on the Sun platform.
Nashville-based nTelagent, Inc., a provider of self-pay management solutions for healthcare service providers, has entered into a partnership with eMids Technologies, also of Nashville, to leverage IT outsourcing capabilities as a component of nTelagent's overall IT development strategy.
The Proginet Corporation, a Garden City, N.J.-based developer of enterprise security software, has announced that its CyberFusion Integration Suite has been successfully deployed at a major health insurance fund in Australia. The fund will use CFI to exchange key business data with a large network of more than 800 institutional business partners, including hospitals, medical centers, clinics and insurance providers.
MedQuist, Inc. of Mount Laurel, N.J. has signed an agreement for remote medical records coding with VHA Texas, Inc., a private supply chain management services cooperative serving 19 healthcare organizations and their affiliates in Texas.
Initiate Systems of Chicago has been chosen by the State of North Dakota to implement a new Master Client Index (MCI) as part of the state's conversion to a new Medicaid Management Information System.
Montreal-based Silanis Technology has announced that MultiPlan, Inc., a healthcare preferred provider organization, has selected the company's e-signature solution to eliminate paper from its business process.
Medical Present Value, Inc. of Austin, Texas, a provider of financial tools and services to manage payer contracts and audit reimbursement, has signed a contract with the Indianapolis Neurosurgical Group, a 20-physician practice based in Indianapolis, Ind.
Emageon, Inc. of Birmingham, Ala. has reported $25.6 million in revenue for the second quarter of 2007, a 14.8 percent decrease from the same quarter of last year. The company reported $52.9 million in revenue for the first six months of 2007, a 7.2 percent decrease from the first half of 2006, and a net positive operating cash flow of $3.7 million for the second quarter of 2007, a $7.7 million improvement over a net negative operating cash flow for $4 million in the first quarter of 2007.