The MRO Corporation, a King of Prussia, Pa.-based provider of shared-service, release-of-information solutions for healthcare providers, has announced that the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit will implement RAC Tracker Online, a Web-based request management program designed to allow hospitals to manage the Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) audit process.
MedSynergies, Inc. of Dallas has announced that The CORE Institute, a private medical practice with offices in Arizona, will implement the company’s revenue cycle management solutions.
Portico Systems, a Philadelphia-based provider of software designed to help health plans reduce administrative, medical and IT costs, has acquired Ethidium Health Systems and will incorporate Ethidium’s clinical quality and collaboration tools into its integrated provider management (IPM) platform.
Lawson Software of St. Paul, Minn. has announced that the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J. has licensed the Lawson Human Resource Management Suite along with the Lawson S3 Supply Chain Management, Enterprise Financial Management and Enterprise Performance Management suites.
MedAssets, Inc. of Atlanta has released the latest version of its Alliance Decision Support software suite to help healthcare providers more readily analyze and use operational information to improve financial performance.
The McKesson Corporation has renamed its specialty pharmaceutical business unit McKesson Specialty Care Solutions. The business includes the former McKesson Specialty, as well as the Oncology Therapeutics Network, which had been acquired by McKesson in October 2007. In addition, the company has announced that St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Covington, Ky. has selected McKesson Revenue Management Solutions for its outreach laboratories, which include billing, accounts receivable management, reporting and account management services.
McKesson Health Solutions of Newton, Mass. is teaming up with Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM to create an analytics solution for public and private health plans.
Healthation, a Darien, Ill.-based provider of payer software solutions for benefits management and claims processing, has been named a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner as well as a High Potential Managed Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Partner in the United States.
AtStaff, Inc. of Durham, N.C. has joined the Oracle PartnerNetwork and will be working with Oracle to “meet the needs of healthcare organizations for outcomes-driven workforce solutions in enterprise resource planning.”
Allocade, Inc. of Menlo, Park, Calif. has announced that Peninsula Medical Center in Burlingame, Calif. has installed the company’s On-Cue system, the first commercial installation of the software and one of seven planned this year. On-Cue is designed to enable hospitals to reclaim unused workflow capacity.
Wellsource, Inc., a Portland, Ore.-based developer of health risk assessments, has announced a partnership with Health Solutions, Ltd., a Sheboygan, Wis.-based provider of wellness services, to form Wellsource Health Solutions.
API Software, Inc., a Hartford, Wis.-based provider of labor management solutions for healthcare providers, has been acquired by Francisco Partners, a San Francisco-based private equity firm.
MTBC, of Somerset, N.J., has announced that, beginning December 1, healthcare providers using the company’s free EMR software will see accelerated collections through real-time adjudication of claims with three major insurers: UnitedHealthcare, Humana and Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Florida.
Sermo, Inc., the Cambridge, Mass.-based developer of an online physician-only community, has signed an agreement with Bloomberg to create The Healthcare Exchange, an online forum available to Bloomberg investors that provides them with instant access to medical information from 90,000 practicing physicians in the Sermo network.
Henry Schein, Inc. of Melville, N.Y. has announced that its “Healthy Children, Healthy Lifestyles” program, which promotes access to healthcare for underserved children, provided free medical and dental services to 4,000 children in nine cities this summer and fall.
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