Jackson Healthcare, based in Alpharetta, Ga., has announced an agreement with Irving, Texas-based VHA, Inc., that gives VHA’s hospital network access to multispecialty physicians for locum tenens assignments and permanent physician placement through Jackson subsidiaries Jackson Coker and LocumTenens.com.
Infosys Technologies, based in Bangalore, India, has acquired Atlanta-based McCamish Systems for about $38 million in a move to tape into the American insurance services market.
API Healthcare, a Hartford, Wis.-based provider of human capital management solutions, has launched version 9.0 of its Navigator payroll and human resources system.
MedAptus, a Boston-based provider of charge capture solutions, has extended its Professional Intelligent Charge Capture software suite – consisting of Practice Plus, Inpatient and Enterprise editions – to Research In Motion’s BlackBerry smartphone devices.
The MRO Corp., a King of Prussia, Pa.-based developer of electronic release-of-information, document management and audit tracking solutions, has announced that the Parkland Health & Hospital System in Dallas will use Audit Tracker Online, a payer audit management program designed to allow healthcare providers complete managerial oversight and reporting capabilities for all incoming audit requests and denials.
NextImage Medical, Inc., a San Diego-based provider of next-generation radiology services to the workers’ compensation market, has raised $5 million in Series A financing, led by Chrysalis Ventures of Louisville, Ky. The company will use the money to accelerate market expansion and enhance its technology platform.
Zotec Partners, an Indianapolis-based provider of medical billing, practice management and radiology information systems (RIS) software, has announced that Lexington Radiology Associates of West Columbia, S.C., will use the company’s billing services software.
Unibased Systems Architecture, Inc., of Chesterfield, Mo., has announced a partnership with DST Technologies, Inc., a provider of process automation and work management solutions, to jointly market their business process management products to the healthcare sector.
World Energy Solutions, Inc., of Worcester, Mass., has announced that it has helped several health systems, including Catholic Healthcare Partners in Ohio, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire and the MediSys Health Network in New York, save money by using the company’s Web-based procurement system for electricity, natural gas and renewable energy.
MedSynergies, Inc., of Irving, Texas, has announced that the Seton Family of Hospitals, serving central Texas, will implement the company’s hospital-physician alignment solutions, including Revenue Cycle Management Services, Management Services, Client Services and Consulting Services.
Carestream Health, Inc., of Rochester, N.Y., has signed a multi-year contract with Atlanta-based MedAssets Supply Chain Systems to provide MedAssets customers with access to Carestream’s line of data archiving, RIS/PACS and cardiology PACS solutions.
Consumer Health Technologies, Inc., of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has announced that Employee Benefit Resources, Inc., (eBA) of Erie, Pa., will use the company’s BenefitSpan comprehensive benefits administration and consumer-directed healthcare services delivery platform.
Gemino Healthcare Finance, based in Philadelphia, has provided a $4 million revolving line of credit to the KidsPeace Corporation, a Schnecksville, Pa.-based behavioral healthcare company dedicated to serving children in crisis.
The HealthTrust Purchasing Group of Brentwood, Tenn., has announced a contract with the Excelsior Medical Corporation that provides HealthTrust GPO members with access to Excelsior’s line of saline and heparin pre-filled flush syringes.
The MedCapital Group of Dallas has announced that it provided consulting services to a large physician group to extend and renegotiate an existing loan for a medical office building in Alpharetta, Ga.
HID Global, based in Irvine, Calif., has received EMVCo CL 2.0 Level 1 type approval for its OMNIKEY 5321 PAY USB Reader, designed for contactless payment applications.
The CPM Marketing Group, Inc., of Madison, Wis., has unveiled a Planning and Forecasting system, designed to provide actionable forecasting information to assist hospitals and health systems in planning. The P&F System uses CPM’s Data Fusion database construction and maintenance system to produce demographic and utilization/encounter forecasting to help hospitals plan how to allocate resources, which service lines to promote and adopt and where to target marketing efforts.
The CambridgeSoft Corporation of Cambridge, Mass., has completed a private equity investment by Health Evolution Partners and a follow-on investment by Goldman Sachs. CambridgeSoft supplies discovery, collaboration and knowledge management research IT enterprise solutions, desktop software, scientific databases and consulting services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and chemical industries.
Planetree, a Derby, Conn.-based non-profit organization dedicated to creating patient-centered care in healing environments, has announced an alliance with the Case Management Society of America, based in Little Rock, Ark.