Sentillion, Inc. of Andover, Mass. has announced that Texas Children's Hospital in Houston is adding the company's Provisioning Manager to its existing deployment of the company's single sign-on and single patient selection solutions. In the midst of a $1.5 billion expansion, the hospital will use Provisioning Manager to create and manage user accounts throughout their life cycle.
Optio Software of Alpharetta, Ga. has engaged Healthcare Growth Partners, LLC to assist the company in reviewing strategic alternatives for its healthcare software division, including but not limited to the sale of the division.
The HLTH Corporation, the Elmwood Park, N.J.-based parent organization of WebMD Health, ViPS and Porex, has announced that ViPS will be working with the Massachusetts Health Quality Partners on a pilot project that will allow MHQP to evaluate physician performance based on specified quality measures by aggregating commercial, Medicare and potentially Medicaid claims data and analyzing that data using ViPS performance measurement software.
Prematics, a Bethesda, Md.-based provider of the ScriptTone electronic prescribing service, has announced a partnership with RxHub of St. Paul, Minn., which connects the prescribing industry for the exchange of patient-specific insurance and medication history information.
3M Health Information Systems of Salt Lake City, Utah has expanded its suite of medical necessity dictionaries to offer new regulatory content and enhanced reference tools to help hospitals and physician practices meet federal reporting requirements of the 2007 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI).
Informed Decisions LLC of Tampa, Fla. reports that its eMPOWERx wireless patient care program, installed a year ago at Mississippi Medicaid, has helped realize a savings in prescription costs of more than $1.2 million per month.
MEDecision, Inc. of Wayne, Pa. has announced that the Hawaii Medical Service Association will deploy its Patient Clinical Summary in a 12-month pilot program for its 700,000-plus members. In addition, the Health Care Service Corporation, a health insurer with 11.5 million members in Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans in Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, has completed deployment of the MEDecision Collaborative Care Management solution suite.
HealthCare Insight of Salt Lake City, Utah has formed a strategic alliance with EZ-CAP, the flagship product of MZI HealthCare, LLC of Valencia, Calif., a provider of health plan administrative software. The move combines EZ-CAP's benefit and claims adjudication software with HCI's clinical review and fraud analysis services.
Sage Software of Tampa, Fla. has announced that it will support the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid's Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI), the pay-for-performance initiative that is scheduled for implementation this month.
The Foresight Corporation of Dublin, Ohio has announced that the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System has selected the company's Transaction Insight platform, which will provide AHCCS with a central control point to monitor and analyze operation activities.
InforSense Ltd. of Cambridge, Mass. and London has unveiled InforSense Enterprise Analytical Solution Environment (I-EASE), a business analytics bundle that consists of the InforSense Business Analytics platform and pre-configured Oracle Database components.
Misys Healthcare Systems of Raleigh, N.C. has announced a strategic alliance with OCS, Inc. to integrate online performance measurement systems, analytic software and predictive modeling reporting tools in the Misys Homecare software solution.
The healthcare solutions business of New York-based JPMorgan Chase and RelayHealth, the connectivity services company of the San Francisco-based McKesson Corporation, have formed a strategic partnership to offer an integrated set of claim and payment processing solutions.
ConnectYourCare, a Hunt Valley, Md.-based provider of CDH account management solutions, reports substantial new enrollments for the first half of 2007, thanks to the December 2006 launch of CDH Express, a Web-based onboarding tool designed for small- to medium-sized markets.
The Kryptiq Corporation of Portland. Ore. has announced the successful deployment of Choreo Contract manager at the Scott & White Health Plan, a not-for-profit, state-certified Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) with a network of more than 1,000 providers serving more than 200,000 members in Texas.
Ingenix and Salt Lake City-based Exante Financial Services have announced the commercial availability of Exante Electronic Payments and Statements to health insurance plans across the nation.
The InterSystems Corporation of Cambridge, Mass. has announced that Healthpac Computer Systems, Inc., a Savannah, Ga.-based provider of medical billing software, has become an InterSystems application partner. Healthpac will be using the InterSystems Cache database as the foundation for its H2003 billing software application.
The CGI Group, Inc. of Montreal has announced that it has been selected by the American Physicians Assurance Corporation to replace their professional liability legacy systems with the new Wynsure client server system.