Kronos, Inc. has announced that Norton Healthcare of Louisville, Ky. is using the company’s labor productivity and workforce analytics tool to publicly report nurse staffing ratios to illustrate its labor hours per patient per day, compared to national statistics.
Benefit Informatics, a Tulsa, Okla.-based healthcare data warehouse provider for payers serving the self-insured health market, has been named a TriZetto Group Partnership Program vendor by the TriZetto Group of Newport Beach, Calif.
The TriZetto Group has also announced that Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island have selected the company’s Provider POS Direct application.
Health Language, Inc. of Aurora, Colo. has unveiled a new content set that allows medical terminology and billing codes to be translated into easily-understood consumer terminology for streamlined communication of patient data to consumers, physicians and health plans.
The Financial Resource Group, a Dallas-based healthcare consulting company, has unveiled two new services, “Clean Claims” and “Prompt Pay,” which are designed to allow hospitals and physician groups to recover underpaid claims when these claims are not paid promptly or properly by Third Party Administrators and insurance companies.
The Premise Corporation, a Farmington, Conn.-based provider of patient flow and business intelligence solutions, has received a $244,800 investment from Connecticut Innovations, the state’s quasi-public authority responsible for technology investing and innovation development.
TransUnion, based in Chicago, has released a newly enhanced version of its Revenue Manager healthcare revenue cycle workflow and financial analytics product suite.
Dallas-based Broadlane has announced that TowerBrook Capital Partners LP, a private equity firm based in New York and London, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a majority interest in the company.
Medtral New Zealand, an Auckland, New Zealand-based provider of medical travel services, has announced a partnership with Pinnacle Health, a Massachusetts-based preferred provider organization providing network and administrative services to more than 3,000 self-funded employers in the Northeast.
MedeFile International, a provider of portable electronic medical records management solutions, has granted South Florida-based API Marketing, Sales & Advertising the exclusive right to market MedeFile memberships to consumers in more than 100,000 retail outlets throughout the United States and Canada, including convenience stores, gas stations, pharmacies and health food stores.
Lawson Software of St. Paul, Minn. has announced that Community Medical Centers, a 727-bed not-for-profit health system in California’s San Joaquin Valley, has licensed Lawson Smart Office and the Lawson S3 Human Capital Management, Enterprise Financial Management, Supply Chain Management and Business Intelligence Suites.
Vangent, Inc., an Arlington, Va.-based provider of Medicare member information management solutions and services, has announced that Elderplan, based in Brooklyn, N.Y., has contracted with the company to optimize its contact center operations.
Craneware, Inc., of Orlando, Fla., has announced that Catholic Health East, based in Newtown Square, Pa., has purchased the company’s Chargemaster Toolkit suite of products for use in the system’s headquarters and 16 acute-care facilities in eight states.
RelayHealth, based in Atlanta, recently launched two new software products, CareEnhance Call Center and Managed Care Optimizer (MCO), as well as software-as-a-service offerings Integrate Rx-Medication History, NPI Append/Prescriber Files and several Patient Education Programs.
ideaPoint, a Boston-based provider of Web software applications that enable open innovation business models, has announced the launch of its flagship product, ideaPoint Innovation Portal, a fully integrated Web portal designed to connect inventors to commercial communities to streamline the development of new technologies.
The Eclipsys Corporation of Atlanta has announced the market availability of a revenue cycle dashboard, a module of the company’s Sunrise Access Manager and Sunrise Patient Financials solutions, that is designed to allow visibility into data pertaining to days in accounts receivable (AR), denials, credit balances, trends in claim errors and other areas.
Informed Decisions, LLC of Tampa, Fla., has announced that its eMPOWERx patient care system has been selected as a registered vendor by the ePrescribe Florida Collaborative.
HealthEdge, based in Burlington, Mass., has been granted a patent for its HealthRules claims processing software.