Benefitfocus of Charleston, S.C. has selected 2007 Data Warehouse software from York, Pa.-based ProfitBase to further enhance the company's Business Intelligence program.
DST Health Solutions of Birmingham, Ala. has announced that the CareSource Management Group, a Medicaid managed care services company based in Dayton, Ohio, and DC Chartered Health Plan, a Washington, D.C.-based Medicaid plan, have both selected the Johns Hopkins University ACG System, a risk adjustment and predictive modeling tool used by health plans, providers and employers to help understand and predict patient health risk, allowing health plans to intervene earlier to reduce costs and improve quality of care.
A-Life Medical, Inc., a San Diego-based provider of Natural Language Processing (NLP) for the healthcare industry, has released the Alacer practice management system. Built on the IMAGINEradiology billing platform, Alacer offers the A-Life Medical LifeCode NLP coding engine, a fully integrated Actus coding workstation and an automated audit management module.
MedeFinance, an Emeryville, Calif.-based provider of on-demand business analytics, is expanding the capabilities of its Performance OnDemand business applications through a partnership with SPSS, a Chicago-based provider of predictive analytics software.
GlobalSCAPE, a San Antonio, Texas-based provider of integrated Managed File Transfer and Wide Area File Service technologies, has unveiled the Secure Ad Hoc Transfer (SAT) Module, an offering that allows users inside an enterprise to send and receive files of any size securely to and from recipients outside the organization, complete with secure authentication, non-repudiation and auditing capabilities.
PCG Software, a Malibu, Calif.-based provider of software solutions designed to increase profitability for healthcare payer and provider organizations, has announced a major software upgrade of its flagship product, Virtual Examiner.
Boston-based healthcare investment bank Leerink Swann has announced an exclusive alliance with KBT Partners, a newly formed healthcare information technologies management services firm.
Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Ingenix has announced that it is partnering with The National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP) to expand the scope of content and accessibility of NCPDP's HCIdea database. The new HDIdea Prescriber Online Lookup tool, scheduled for release in June, is expected to help commercial and government health care payers, large-chain pharmacies and independent pharmacists access timely, accurate and comprehensive prescriber data.
Nashville-based MedSolutions, a provider of analytics to the management of radiology services for health plans and government agencies, has entered into a definitive agreement with CIGNA HealthCare to provide radiology management programs, including access to MedSolutions' national imaging network, radiology cost management and quality improvement programs.
Philadelphia-based InstaMed has announced that it has raised $6.5 million in a common stock equity financing and will use the proceeds to support the rollout of its integrated healthcare and payment processing platform.
TRICAST, Inc. of Scottsdale, Ariz. has launched AccuCast, an actuarial support application for enhanced underwriting and improved risk assessment of prescription drug programs. The solution is available to health insurance payers, benefits advisors and pharamaceutical benefits managers.
Flagship Global Health has announced that The Maksin Group, a New York-based provider of student health insurance and catastrophic and accident insurance, will incorporate the company's emergency support services into its student health policies.
Healthscreen Solutions, Inc., a Toronto-based provider of products and services designed to increase physician revenues, reduce costs and improve patient care, has completed its acquisition of the Toronto-based Medical Telecom Corporation, whose CallerMD service platform provides Ontario physicians with a billing system for uninsured medical services such as telephone advice, prescription renewals, missed appointments and sick notes.
The head of Sage Group, a Newscastle, England-based maker of accounting, payroll and customer relationship management software for small- and medium-sized businesses, told reporters during a recent conference call that the company is in the market for software suppliers in the healthcare and payment services markets. Last year the company paid $589 million for Emdeon Business Services.
The SSI Group, Inc. of Mobile, Ala. has announced the release of ClickON PREVENT (Precise Registration, Edit Validation and Enterprise Tracking), a revenue cycle solution that enables healthcare facilities to avoid registration errors, thus reducing denials.