The TriZetto Group of Newport Beach, Calif. has announced the limited availability of CareAdvance Medicare, for proactive care management of Medicare members. The software will be sold as an optional component to TriZetto's Clinical CareAdvance application, the clinician-facing feature of the CareAdvance Enterprise solution. In addition, Blue Shield of California has contracted with TriZetto to acquire software for a major system-wide technology upgrade expected to launch in 2009.
Lawson Software of St. Paul, Minn. has announced an agreement with Dubai-based E3 to allow the company to resell Lawson S3 enterprise software applications exclusively to hospitals in the Middle East and North Africa. In addition, Lawson has announced that American Hospital Dubai has licensed the Lawson S3 Human Capital Management, Enterprise Financial Management, Supply Chain Management and Business Intelligence suites.
Aetna has entered into an agreement with the Flexible Benefit Service Corp. of Rosemont, Ill. to provide self-funded Health Reimbursement Arrangement administrative services to Aetna's Small Group Market.
Seattle-based Zynchros, Inc., a provider of pharmacy program management solutions, has announced the certification of its formulary and benefit exports to the RxHub network.
Cognos, based in Burlington, Mass., has announced that University Health Network, one of Canada's largest teaching hospitals, is rolling out Cognos' Business Intelligence software to enable more timely performance reporting, measurement and analysis and help improve and measure the success of its healthcare delivery services.
Perceptive Software of Shawnee, Kan. has announced that Children's Hospital Boston has selected the company's ImageNow enterprise document management, imaging and workflow solution to assist in reducing manual efforts in invoice processing while increasing the department's level of accuracy.
MedeFile International, Inc., which provides portable electronic medical records solutions, has received total net proceeds of $1.95 million from three separate private placement transactions.
Enclarity, Inc. of Aliso Viejo, Calif. has unveiled ProviderLookup, a Web-based offering designed to enable healthcare payers and others to access provider information in real-time.
Onmar, a San Francisco-based national group purchasing organization for community-based practices and a McKesson specialty company, has launched its Integrated Quality Program, designed to help community-based oncology practices track internal regimen use, compare clinical treatment patterns to national standards and benchmark quality outcomes against peer practices.