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Vendor Notebook - Metavante unveils new PHR product

By Eric Wicklund

Metavante, a Milwaukee-based provider of banking and payments technology, has unveiled WealthCare Manager, a personal health record product that pulls together all of a consumer’s health and healthcare finance information.

Greenway Medical Technologies, a Carrollton, Ga.-based provider of integrated electronic health records, practice management and interoperability solutions, is partnering with Navicure, an Atlanta-based medical claims clearinghouse, to streamline the claims management process through an integration of their services.

The MRO Corp., a King of Prussia, Pa.-based provider of release-of-information solutions for healthcare providers, has added Remote Services and Staffed Services as options to its traditional Shared Services model for ROI processing.

McKesson Revenue Management Solutions of Atlanta has announced that Coastal Anesthesiology Consultants, based in St. Augustine, Fla., and Methodist Medical Center of Illinois – Anesthesia, based in Peoria, Ill., have implemented the company’s software to enhance billing operations.

SAP AG has announced that the Marshfield Clinic in Marshfield, Wis. has selected the company’s BusinessObjects XI intelligence platform to replace its existing BI system. In addition, the company has announced that Emdeon is using BusinessObjects XI solutions to optimize administrative functions and reduce its carbon footprint.

Medline Industries, a Mundelein, Ill.-based manufacturer and distributor of medical supplies, has signed a three-year medical and office supplies purchasing agreement with Community Health Systems (CHS) Homecare.

Companion Data Services, LLC of Columbia, S.C., has completed a 20-month project to transition Medicare claims data from 11 data centers around the country into its Medicare Enterprise Data Center.

Passport Health Communications, a Franklin, Tenn.-based provider of revenue cycle management solutions, has been certified as a compliant Level 1 Service Provider by the PCI Security Standards Council, a consortium of credit card issuers including VISA, MasterCard, Discover Card, American Express and JCB International.

Cielo MedSolutions, LLC, an Ann Arbor, Mich.-based provider of healthcare software and Web applications, has announced that revenues increased year-over-year by more than 300 percent in 2008.

HR XCEL, a Charlotte, N.C.-based provider of benefits administration, business process outsourcing and other human resources-based solutions, has announced a partnership with Employee Benefits Communications, also of Charlotte.

K Software of Ashland, Ky., has released kBilling v. 3.0, a Windows billing and invoicing application designed to let users print and e-mail invoices, track payments, bill subscriptions, create and manage proposals and charge credit cards. The latest release includes support for quotations and batch payments and the ability to add late fees.

MEDai, Inc., an Orlando, Fla.-based provider of predictive analytic solutions, is offering a free case study on its Web site that focuses on the use of its Risk Navigator Clinical predictive analytic solution to keep costs down and members healthier.