MedAssets, based in Atlanta, has announced that it will provide its spend management solutions to RehabCare, a St. Louis-based national provider of long-term acute care and rehabilitation services. The company has also put out the call for nominations for its ninth annual Technology & Innovation Forum.
The RealMed Corporation, an Indianapolis-based provider of Web-based revenue cycle management solutions for healthcare providers and payers, has announced a multi-year agreement with MED3000, which provides healthcare management solutions to physicians, to offer real-time adjudication and processing of electronic claims transactions, real-time claims editing, automatic claims status and electronic remittance advice management services to MED3000 clients.
TSYS Healthcare, a Minneapolis-based provider real-time connectivity and integration services, has announced a partnership with Minneapolis-based Lighthouse1, a developer of consumer-driven healthcare administration software, to create an integrated, end-to-end healthcare payment solution on the Lighthouse 1 OnDemand platform.
McKesson, based in Atlanta, has announced that Davis County Hospital in Bloomfield, Iowa, Paynesville Area Hospital in Paynesville, Minn., and Renville County Hospital and Clinics in Olivia, Minn., will deploy the company’s Practice Partner Patient Records electronic health record and practice management solution for their employed and affiliated physicians. In addition, the company has released version 7.1 of its Connect-Rx software, providing improved functionality for the company’s AcuDose-Rx medication dispensing cabinets and Anesthesia-Rx medication carts.
Benefitfocus, based in Charleston, S.C., has announced an agreement with the Lifestyle Benefits Corporation, a Michigan-based brokerage firm, to provide the Benefitfocus HR InTouch Application, which runs on the Benefitfocus Platform, to create a consumer-driven portal that supports benefit enrollment, employee communication, health and wellness initiatives and video messaging.
Flash Global Logistics, a Pine Brook, N.J.-based developer of single-source supply chain solutions, has announced a partnership with OnProcess Technology, which designs products for asset retrieval and customer experience management for reverse logistics.
Practice Fusion, a San Francisco-based developer of electronic health records, has announced a partnership with Kareo, based in Irvine, Calif., to integrate Practice Fusion’s Web-based EHRs with Kareo’s medical billing software for physicians.
Vangent, Inc., an Arlington, Va.-based provider of information management and strategic business process services, has announced a partnership with Orion Health, an Australian-based developer of clinical workflow and integration technology solutions for the healthcare sector with a U.S. headquarters in Santa Monica, Calif.
Asolva, a Los Angeles-based developer of healthcare data analytics and reporting systems, has announced the launch of its Drug Waste Tracker, which allows hospital pharmacies to instantly tracks the amount and cost of oncology drugs that are prepared vs. the actual amount consumed.
The Medical Simulation Corporation of Denver has signed a vendor agreement with the MAGNET Cooperative, one of the largest non-profit group purchasing organizations in the country, making MSC’s simulation-based education products available to the GPO’s participating healthcare facilities.
Sg2, a Skokie, Ill.-based developer of healthcare information management solutions, has signed a multiyear contract with Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare to deploy the Sg2 INSIGHT clinical performance management system in nine hospitals in southeast Wisconsin and Iowa.
OptumHealth, based in Golden Valley, Minn., has announced that Delta Airlines will be the first corporation to offer the company’s NowClinic online care service to its employees.
Puerto Rican entrepreneur Michael Redondo is looking for investors for his Gurabo project, a proposed medical travel hotel chain based in San Juan, P.R., that will include a sustainable medical resort, which includes a clinic, nursing school and care or rehabilitation center focusing on orthopedics and cardiology surgeries.
3M Health Information Systems of Salt Lake City has released a new breach notification tool, available with new versions of 3M’s ChartRelease and DisclosureTrac software, that provides a template for creating customized breach notifications and tracking specific breach incidents by date or patient.
The Zix Corporation, a Dallas-based provider of e-mail encryption services, has launched ZixGateway Inbound, designed to give healthcare organizations a proactive method of identifying unsecured protected health information in e-mail.
Halfpenny Technologies, Inc., a Blue Bell, Pa.-based provider of health information exchange solutions, has added a mobile solution to its ITF-GoDoc platform that enables physicians to securely access laboratory, pathology and radiology result reports from their iPhone, Droid or Blackberry Storm-powered smartphones.
Perceptive Software, based in Shawnee, Kan., has released version 6.5 of its ImageNow document management software.
Wolters Kluwer Health, based in Philadelphia, has announced that Spectrum Health, based in Grand Rapids, Mich., will deploy ProVation MD software for cardiology procedure documentation and coding in the cardiac catheterization labs at Blodgett Hospital and Butterworth Hospital. The company has also added a One Click Updates tool to its ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support.
SUNRx, based in Bensalem, Pa., has launched PAP Simplified, a new solution designed to help eligible health organizations manage the administrative burdens associated with pharmaceutical company patient assistance programs (PAPs) and save money on drug subsidies. In addition, the company has been selected by the East Central Oklahoma Family Health Center to launch a program that will provide discounted prescription drugs to low-income patients in Wetumka, Okla., and the surrounding area.
Novation, an Irving, Texas-based supply contracting company, has announced the launch of a new Patient Care Standardization Program. The program, beginning July 1, will contain only medical products and is designed to provide significant value to members of VHA, the University HealthSystem Consortium and Provista.
Premier Purchasing Partners has awarded a contact to Kimberly-Clark Health Care of Roswell, Ga., for its KimVent Oral Care products. Kimberly-Clark has also been named the sole-source provider of oral care products for Premier’s ASCEND (Accelerated Supply Chain Endeavor) program.
Jackson Surgical Assistants of Alpharetta, Ga., is adding to its national presence in practice management solutions with the addition of Omni Surgical and Midtown Surgical Associates, both in Atlanta.
Cabinet NG, a Huntsville, Ala.-based provider of document management and workflow software, has launched version 6.2 of its CNG-WEB solution, a module that provides a secure Web-browser interface to the company’s CNG-SAFE product.
BravoSolution, a UK-based provider of supply management software and services, has launched the BravoSolution sid4health update service, a new application designed to enable suppliers to the NHS to import their existing sid4health profile information into BravoSolution NHS eSourcing portals.
Healthation, a Chicago-based provider of core administrative systems for medical and specialty insurance payers and administrators, has enhanced the individual billing capabilities of its AcceleHealth solution, a next-generation benefit management system that offers payers a single, Web-based system for administering benefits across all lines of business.
Medical Management Professionals, an Atlanta-based provider of billing and practice management services to emergency medicine practices, has been awarded contracts with Asheboro Emergency Physicians in Asheboro, N.C. , and Emergency Medical Associates of Mobile, Ala.
Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions of Chicago has announced that Healthcare South will deploy the Allscripts Electronic Health Record and Practice Management solution to nine pediatric and family practice offices in the Boston area. In addition, Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., has adopted the Allscripts Care Management solution.
Intelimedix, a Lakeland, Fla.-based provider of business intelligence services, has announced a partnership with Irvine, Calif.-based TC3 Health, Inc., to offer public and private health plans a comprehensive medical cost-management solution that includes identification of preventable conditions and unnecessary treatment, clinical code editing and fraud, waste and abuse detection.
CPU Medical Management Systems, Inc., of San Diego has been selected to provide practice management and billing services for Medigistics, Inc., of Columbus, Ohio.
Health Literacy Innovations of Bethesda, Md., has announced that Neighborhood Health Plan in Boston will license the company’s Health Literacy Advisor interactive health literacy software tool.
The Midmark Corporation, a Versailles, Ohio-based developer of integrated digital; diagnostic devices for ambulatory care, has announced a partnership with EHS, a Birmingham, Ala.-based electronic health record and practice management software system provider, to integrate Midmark’s IQecg digital resting ECG with the EHS CareRevolution PM/EMR solution.
Dell, based in Round Rock, Texas, has announced a partnership with San Francisco-based Practice Fusion to integrate Practice Fusion’s Web-based electronic medical records package with Dell’s desktop, laptop, printer, scanner and networking systems.
NextGen Healthcare, based in Horsham, Pa., has signed contracts with five new hospitals to deploy the company’s Inpatient Clinicals clinical, financial and administrative solution for the inpatient market. They are Caro Community Hospital in Caro, Mich.; Cedar County Memorial Hospital in El Dorado Springs, Mo.; St. Croix Regional Medical Center in St. Croix Falls, Wis.; Salem Township Hospital in Salem, Ill.; and Washington County Hospital in Nashville, Ill.
VHA, Inc., an Irving, Texas-based healthcare network, has enhanced member access to its Leading Practices Portal, which provides performance improvement resources to member hospitals.
Agfa HealthCare has been awarded a three-year, multi-source contract with the HealthTrust Purchasing Group to offer computed radiography products to HPG’s more than 1,400 acute care hospitals, 120 alternate care sites and 3,600 physician practices.
The MRO Corporation, a King of Prussia, Pa.-based provider of disclosure management applications and services for healthcare organizations, has announced an agreement with Streamline Health Solutions, Inc., of Cincinnati, Ohio, to provide integrated document workflow and release of information (ROI) processing services.
Computerized Screening, Inc. (CSI) has announced a partnership with Consult A Doctor to develop a telehealth product for the worksite and home setting through CSI’s patient-interactive kiosks.
The SCIOinspire Corporation, a Hartford, Conn.-based provider of business process solutions for health plans and hospitals, has announced an agreement to provide its PROGuide care management analytics, workflow and outreach software to Manatee County in Florida.
Companion Data Services, based in Columbia, S.C., has been chosen by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to provide data processing and hosting operations for a National Level Repository that will track incentive payments to healthcare providers who adopt electronic health records and modernize their computer systems.