MEDai, Inc., an Elsevier subsidiary and Orlando, Fla.-based developer of business intelligence solutions focused on predictive analytics, has announced that Novant Health, a nine-hospital system serving North and South Carolina and Virginia, has rolled out the company’s Pinpoint Review solution, which is designed to alert providers and patients at risk for developing several conditions considered by Medicare and Medicaid to be non-reimbursable.
StudyManager, a Seattle-based developer of clinical trial management software, has released version 1.0 of Reveal, its new CTMS solution for research sites, academic medical centers and hospitals. The software is integrated with Allscripts EHR.
HealthPort, based in Alpharetta, Ga., has announced that its RACPro Recovery Audit Contractor software solutions has achieved Platinum level integration certification status from Executive Health Resources, a provider of medical necessity compliance and denials management solutions.
athenahealth, Inc., of Watertown, Mass., has launched a program guaranteeing that physicians who use the company’s athenaClinicals electronic health record will receive a HITECH Act bonus payment under the 2011 program year.
RWD Technologies, LLC of Baltimore has announced that the Board of Trustees of the Texas Hospital Association has endorsed the company as a vendor of the Toyota Management System-based Performance Improvement Services.
AeroScout, a Redwood City, Calif.-based developer of unified asset visibility solutions for healthcare, has announced that WellSpan Health’s York Hospital in York, Pa., has deployed the company’s Wi-Fi-based asset tracking and management solution, allowing the hospital’s emergency, biomedical engineering and transportation departments to track critical medical equipment and ensure that staff can quickly located needed items.
Portico Systems, a Philadelphia-based developer of integrated provider management solutions, has been selected by global health service company CIGNA to provide IPM solutions to automate selection and create a single source of data for CIGNA’s 573,000 contracted healthcare professionals.
Standard Register, a Dayton, Ohio-based developer of document management and workflow solutions, has signed a multi-year agreement with Novation, the Texas-based contracting services company for healthcare alliances VHA, Inc., the University HealthSystem Consortium and Provista, LLC, giving VHA, UHC and Provista members access to the company’s document management products.
Selectica, a San Jose, Calif.-based developer of contract lifecycle management solutions, received notice on Sept. 15 from the NASDAQ stock market indicating the company’s common stock has closed for 30 days below the minimum $1 bid price. The company has until March 15, 2010 to recover of its stock will be de-listed.
SXC Health Solutions, a Lisle, Ill.-based provider of pharmacy benefit management services and healthcare IT to health plans, employers, governments, pharmacies and pharmacy benefit managers, has announced plans for an initial public offering of common stock. The company hopes to raise between $176 million and $203.3 million through the issuing of 4.5 million common shares at $41.50 each, with an additional 675,000 shares available to underwriters at the same price within 30 days after the offering closes on Sept. 30.
Calypso Medical Technologies, Inc., a Seattle-based developer of real-time localization technology used for the tracking of tumor targets, has secured $50 million in fifth-round funding, bringing its funding total to date to nearly $175 million. Financing was led by Skyline Ventures and Frazier Healthcare Ventures, with participation from previous investors Bay City Capital and InterWest Partners.
The HLTH Corporation, based in Elmwood Park, N.J., has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Porex segment, with develops, manufactures and distributes porous plastic products and components used in healthcare and other applications, to affiliates of the Los Angeles-based Aurora Capital group for $142 billion.
Siemens has announced that the Children’s Health Fund will receive $285,309 through an online auction in which John T. Mather Memorial Hospital of Port Jefferson, N.Y., purchased a Ysio digital radiography system. The DR system, valued at $450,000, was donated by Siemens to the CHF in December 2008, who in turn launched the online auction.
The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies, based in Warren, N.J., has announced the launch of Integrity+, a solution that blends errors and omission insurance with protection for emerging technology-related injuries and privacy remediation expenses.
The CareFusion Corp. of San Diego has announced that three patient safety organizations – the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, and the Institute for Safe medication Practices – will receive contributions raised during the company’s CareFusion Jazz Festival Series.
Post Acute Medical, based in Camp Hill, Pa., has announced a long-term contract to provide consulting and other strategic services to Gulf States LTAC of New Braunfels, Texas.
CareSource, a Dayton, Ohio-based developer of public sector healthcare program administration services, has launched a new Web site, www.caresource.com.
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