ER Urgent Care Centers of Florida has announced that the company has reached an agreement, in principle, with a funding source to provide the capital needed to initiate the company’s plans to expand into airports, the first of which will be Miami International Airport.
Navicure, an Atlanta-based provider of Web-based accounts receivable management solutions for physician practices, has released Navicure 4.0, with enhancements designed to improve practice staff efficiency and productivity.
ACM, based in Minneapolis, has signed a new three-year contract with Blue Shield of California to use the company’s e-Precision claims technology to make it easier for providers to submit claims for complex services, such as home infusion treatment, to the not-for-profit health plan.
Perot Systems of Plano, Texas agreed to provide information technology and business process services to support the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Health Insurance Connector Authority (Health Connector), the state’s program to assist low-income residents with choosing health coverage.
The MRO Corp., a King of Prussia, Pa.-based provider of release-of-information solutions for healthcare providers, has released RAC Tracker Online, a request management program designed to enable hospitals to effectively manage the Recovery Audit Contractor process.
Dialog Medical, a provider of informed consent and patient education systems for hospitals and physician practices, has signed a new contract with The Hospital of Saint Raphael in New Haven, Conn. to implement the iMedConsent application
Artromick, a Columbus, Ohio-based provider of medication management and healthcare technology solutions, has contracted with Katz Marketing Solutions to provide guidance and strategic planning services for its Automation Products Group.
MEDecision has announced that its Alineo collaborative healthcare management technology platform has been licensed to DC Chartered Health Plan, Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based Medicaid provider with more than 75,000 members.
Sun Capital HealthCare, Inc. of Boca Raton, Fla. has been selected to join HME Providers’ vendor alliance program as a preferred provider of a healthcare industry-specific Medical Account Receivables (MAR) funding program as a working capital source for HME Providers’ business partners.
Panorama Software, a Toronto-based provider of business intelligence software, has released NoveView Version 5.5, the newest version of its flagship suite of BI applications.
The Hypercom Corp. of Scottsdale, Ariz. has announced that its HBNet transaction transport service and Optimum T4220 care payment terminals have been selected by the Health Transaction Network to support that company’s healthcare provider network.
MediClick, of Raleigh, N.C., has signed contracts with six new hospitals or health systems to implement MediClick for Contracts & Analysis. They are City of Hope, a comprehensive cancer center in Duarte, Calif.; Children’s Medical Center in Dayton, Ohio; Cheshire Medical Center in Keene, N.H.; West Tennessee Healthcare, the University of South Alabama Health System; and Wheeling Hospital in Wheeling, W.Va.
Health Care Compliance Strategies, Inc. (HCCS) of Jericho, N.Y. has announced an exclusive partnership with the Healthcare Academy to deliver a library of 60 patient care and OSHA online training courses designed to meet the needs of all staff members at acute care facilities.
McKesson has acquired EN-Chart Scanning Program, LLC, a Dandridge, Tenn.-based provider of computer-assisted facility coding and compliance solutions for emergency department visits. EN-Chart solutions can be used as a stand-alone or integrated with McKesson’s Horizon Emergency Care ED solution.
WhereToFindCare.com, LLC, a Michigan startup, has unveiled a free Web site designed to let visitors share their healthcare experiences, research quality data, review other users’ ratings and contact providers directly. Its database includes more than 52,000 healthcare providers nationwide.
AHI Software, Inc., a Miami-based provider of patient access management solutions, has announced the launch of its Eligibility Verification product, designed to provide automated, real-time verification of the critical fields of a patient’s insurance eligibility data, including name, SSN and policy number.
Agfa Healthcare has been awarded a new three-year contract with Premier Purchasing Partners, L.P., to provide film and medical imagers at competitive terms and conditions to the healthcare alliance’s 2,000 member hospitals and 53,000 alternate healthcare sites in the United States.
AIIM has announced the development of an Email Management ROI Calculator Tool, designed to allow organizations to identify and analyze current costs, total cost of ownership, benefits of email management and effective return on investment of an email management solution.
Dallas-based Broadlane has announced that, during the recent 2008 Live Group Buy for Magnetic Resonance Imaging, a high-field open MRI contract was awarded to Hitachi Medical Systems America, Inc.