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Vendor Notebook - CHRISTUS Health chooses LYNX for 18 acute care hospitals

By Healthcare Finance Staff

Picis, Inc., of Wakefield, Mass. has announced that CHRISTUS Health has gone live with LYNX E/Point, a product of LYNX Medical Systems of Bellevue, Wash., in 18 of its acute care hospitals in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Utah and plans to implement the ED charging software in three additional hospitals soon.

Internet Payment Exchange (IPayX), a Toledo, Ohio-based provider of electronic billing and payment technology and services, has announced the second-generation launch of its eCareview Healthcare Billing Portal for consumer payments.

NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc., of Horsham, Pa., has announced that MEDNAX, Inc., a national physician group practice, is expanding its use of NextGen’s enterprise software solutions to include the NextGen Enterprise Practice Management (EPM) product.

Metavante, a Milwaukee-based provider of banking and payments technology, has announced that CareFlex, a Prince Frederick, Md.-based provider of benefit plan consulting and administrative services to employers and benefit plan sponsors, has selected the company’s benefits administration and payment software.

Phytel, a Dallas-based provider of automated physician-led health improvement and follow-up care solutions, has chosen CPR Strategic Marketing Communications of Elmwood Park, N.J., as its new media relations firm.

The Edison Venture Fund of Lawrenceville, N.J., has announced a $5 million investment in Notable Solutions, Inc., a Rockville, Md.-based developer of software that integrate paper-based processes and electronic information into business applications.

Home Care Delivered, Inc., a Richmond, Va.-based mail-order provider of billable home medical supplies, has launched a proprietary payer management system designed to enhance speed and accuracy or patient medical supply orders.

Resource Systems of New Concord, Ohio, has purchased PM MxManage, LLC, which provides decision support software for long-term care providers designed to optimize reimbursement and state survey outcomes through real-time analytics.

Passport Health Communications, Inc., a Franklin, Tenn.-based provider of revenue cycle management services, has established a direct connection with the AMERIGROUP Corporation.

Preferred Health Technology, Inc., a Carrollton, Texas-based provider of electronic payment and transaction-processing services for the healthcare industry, has announced an alliance with Visa. Inc., of San Francisco to make Visa the preferred payment brand for PHT’s A-Claim medical payment solution for physicians, hospitals and other healthcare providers.

Lincor, an Ireland-based provider of bedside point-of-care information and entertainment systems, has released a Return on Investment (ROI) calculator designed to enable hospitals to calculate savings and efficiencies from deployment of the company’s MEDIVista solution.

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.