McKesson Provider Solutions, based in San Francisco, has announced that TELCOR, Inc., a Lincoln, Neb.-based provider of outreach information systems like the TELCOR Billing Information System, will partner with McKesson's Revenue Management Solutions group to help clinical and molecular laboratories access billing and practice management solutions. In addition, the company has announced that the Suburban Hospital Healthcare System of Bethesda, Md., has implemented McKesson's Horizon Clinicals clinical and revenue management solution suite.
Lawson Software of St. Paul, Minn., has announced hat PeaceHealth, based in Bellevue, Wash., has licensed the Lawson S3 Healthcare, Supply Chain Management, Enterprise Financial Management and Human Resource Management suites. The company has also announced the general availability of Lawson S3 Point of Use, a software application designed to help healthcare providers keep supplies in stock while capturing patient charges.
Medical Present Value, Inc., of Austin, Texas, has announced five new contracts for its MPV Contract Management solution, which enables practices to audit reimbursement and payer performance based on individual client terms, the latest payment rules and payer adjudication logic. The contracts are with Utica Park Clinic in Tulsa, Okla., Pediatric Associates of Lauderdale Lakes, Fla., the Austin Radiological Association of Austin, Texas, The Doctors Clinic in Bremerton, Wash., and RADIA Medical Imaging of Seattle.
Beacon Partners of Weymouth, Mass., has launched ARRA Stimulus Services, designed to help healthcare organizations prepare for the stimulus funds they can capture from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Orchestrate Healthcare, based in Greenwood Village, Colo., is partnering with SunGard Availability Services of Wayne, Pa., to help hospitals develop and execute cost-effective business continuity plans that address the requirement to access EMR data in the event of an IT systems outage to safeguard quality of care.
SunGard Availability Services of Wayne, Pa., has unveiled the Living Disaster Recovery Planning Systems for Hospitals (LDRPS), designed to address the business continuity requirements of hospitals.
The Eclipsys Corporation of Atlanta has launched the Strategic Product Budgeting module for its Sunrise EPSi business decision support and performance management system.
Keane, Inc., of San Francisco, has launched Keane Optimum, a software suite that combines the company's Patcom RCM product and iMed clinical application.
ITelagen, Inc., of Jersey City, N.J., has expanded its One-Stop Shop for EMR platform to include revenue cycle management services.
Ontario Systems, a Muncie, Ind.-based provider of revenue cycle management and collection management services and software for the healthcare and debt management industries, has signed a multi-year contract with the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center to purchase Ontario's Revenue Savvy product.
Cianna Medical, an Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based developer of medical devices primarily devoted to women's health and the treatment of early-stage breast cancer, has completed a funding round totaling more than $10 million. The funding will be used to accelerate commercialization of the company's proprietary SAVI technology for breast cancer brachytherapy.
Broadlane, based in Dallas, has announced that MetroSouth Medical Center in Blue Island, Ill., has selected the company to be the exclusive provider of a broad range of supply chain services.
Merge Healthcare, a Milwaukee-based provider of medical imaging solutions, has announced plans to donate $1 million to the World Health Imaging Alliance, a global not-for-profit focused on bringing low-cost, sustainable imaging solutions to underserved communities.
OptumHealth, Inc., of Golden Valley, Minn., a business unit of the UnitedHealth Group, has announced that brokers can begin offering the company's tax-advantaged health accounts and benefits administration services, including COBRA, through A.D.A.M., Inc., a provider of Web-based employee benefits and health management solutions. The vendor has also unveiled eSync, a technology platform designed to help organizations improve their healthcare programs while reducing related costs.
Thomson Reuters of Ann Arbor, Mich., has launched its "Save $4 Billion" campaign, designed to offer hospital CEOs an analysis that shows how their hospitals compare to industry norms and benchmarks in clinical quality, patient safety, financial performance and operational efficiency. The effort is designed to help hospitals save $4 billion over three years while improving the quality of medical care.
American Well has announced plans to launch a virtual health clinic for the state of Minnesota in conjunction with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota.