Outcome Sciences, Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., has announced that it has created a Patient Management Tool to support the MassHealth Hospital Pay-for-Performance Measures initiative.
EDS has announced that the state of Indiana has awarded the company a $209.9 million, six-and-a-half-year contract to upgrade and continue to maintain the state's Medicaid Management Information System. EDS has been Indiana's Medicaid partner since 1991.
Epocrates, Inc., a San Mateo-Calif.-based developer of clinical solutions for healthcare professionals, has announced that Goldman Sachs has made a strategic investment in the company and will co-market the company's market research services.
Simply Retail, a Minneapolis-based provider of customized retail systems for healthcare, has entered into a partnership agreement with ECRS Software to serve as the selected retail automation provider for the Point of Sale system for Simply Retail's clients.
Health Data Services, Inc. has announced that FreeDOM, its free integrated EMR and PM solution for small healthcare offices, is now available in Ohio, the 11th state in the company's national distribution plan.
UMB Healthcare Services, a division of the Kansas City, Mo.-based UMB Financial Corporation, has announced that it has surpassed $100 million in Health Savings Account (HSA) assets, a 52 percent increase over the last 12 months. UMB's health-related payment cards for Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs) and HSAs surpassed 750,000 at the end of 2007, company officials reported.
ForSight Labs, LLC of Menlo Park, Calif. has announced the launch of ForSight VISION3, Inc. with a Series A financing of $6 million, supported by venture capital firms Morgenthaler Ventures, Split Rock Partners and Versant Ventures. The company, following on the heels of Transcend Medical and ForSight Newco II, will focus on innovative ophthalmic technology.
Transworld Systems, Inc., a Santa Rosa, Calif.-based provider of profit recovery solutions, and LeonardoMD, Inc., a San Diego-based provider of Web-based practice management and clinical software, have collaborated to create a GreenFlag/LeonardoMD interface, an integrated solution designed to allow medical practices to streamline their collections process for slow-paying patient accounts and insurance resolution."
CyberHeart, Inc., a Menlo Park, Calif.-based company developing a non-invasive system to treat cardiac arrhythmia, has announced the close of a $9 million Series A financing, co-led by Emergent Medical Ventures, LLP and United Investments. The money will be used to fund development of proprietary non-invasive technology for cardiac applications using the CyberKnife System from Accuray Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif.
MedeFinance, based in Emeryville, Calif., has announced that it has renewed its partnership with the Healthcare Financial Management Association, representing hospitals in the United Kingdom.
Montreal-based MediSolution Ltd. has announced the availability of Service Oriented Architecture products and services specifically designed for the healthcare and service sector organizations. The offerings include the company's Virtuo Financial Management Suite, Electronic Health Record Suite, EMPI patient search product and .NET-based Virtuo Payment Solution.
SXC Health Solutions of Milton, Ontario, a provider of pharmacy benefit management services, has signed a $3 million software license agreement with the Ministry of Health in the Province of British Columbia for an upgrade to the province's PharmaNet System. The agreement includes a license to use SXC's Drug Information Systems (DIS) solution.
Craneware, Inc. of Orlando, Fla. has announced the release of Pharmacy ChargeLink, a software application that establishes and maintains a connection between a hospital's pharmaceutical purchase history and its charge description master (CDM).
Lawson Software of St. Paul, Minn. has announced that The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio has licensed Lawson QuickStep Healthcare, which includes the Lawson S3 Human Capital Management, Enterprise Financial Management, Supply Chain Management and Business Intelligence suites.
Canada Health Infoway has negotiated preferential conditions and pricing with Orion Health through a Preferred Solution Agreement for its Coincerto Physician Portal EHR viewer, a secure Web-based application that integrates patient information from various sources into one record.
Atlanta-based MediPro, Inc. has announced that it has added Meditab's Intelligent Medical Software (IMS) electronic medical record to its list of healthcare solutions.
Premier Market Connections, a Pittsburgh-based healthcare technology company, will unveil MedicareCRM, billed as a Web-based solution designed for Medicare Advantage plans of all sizes, at the Medicare Advantage Congress on Jan. 23 in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Metavante Technologies, Inc., a Milwaukee-based provider of banking and payments technology for the healthcare industry, among others, has acquired London-based Nomad Payments Ltd., which provides prepaid and debit-card processing and licensed software, for $58 million. Company officials say the acquisition provides Metavante International Group with the opportunity to establish a European center of operations.