Medical Present Value, Inc. of Austin, Texas has announced that three academic groups with 1,700 physicians – Seattle-based University of Washington Physicians, the Columbia, SC-based University of South Carolina School of Medicine and the University of Texas Medicine in San Antonio – have selected MPV to automate payer contract management processes and optimize contract performance.
API Software, Inc. has announced that Overlake Hospital Medical Center, a 337-bed facility based in Bellevue, Wash., has implemented its Payrollmation time and attendance system.
CSC, of Falls Church, Va., has announced that it is teaming with HealthTrio LLC to add portal and personal health record solutions to CSC’s FirstPortfolio offering for health plans and other payer clients.
3M Health Information Systems of Salt Lake City has released Comprehensive Pricing Assurance, which is designed to integrate expert consulting services with advanced analytic tools to assist hospitals in managing key revenue cycle processes while meeting industry demands for pricing transparency.
ConnectYourCare, a Hunt Valley, Md.-based consumer-directed healthcare account platform provider, has announced a partnership with Workscape, a Marlborough, Mass.-based provider of outsourced benefits and talent management services, to offer an integrated CDH benefits platform.
Broadlane, of Dallas, has announced that Henry Medical Center in Stockbridge, Ga. will maintain its exclusive relationship with the company, using Broadlane’s national GPO portfolio of consumable supplies, equipment, pharmaceuticals and purchased services to help manage its approximate $30 million in annual spend.
CA, Inc. of Islandia, N.Y. has unveiled CA GRC Manager 1.5, the latest version of its solution for Risk Management, Compliance, Audit and IT professionals to centrally manage risk and compliance initiatives across the enterprise.
The TriZetto Group, Inc. of Newport Beach, Calif. has announced an agreement with Microsoft under which TriZetto will develop a connector for its payer customers that enables members of health plans to use TriZetto’s Member Benefit Profile application with Microsoft HealthVault.
Google has signed an agreement with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts to integrate the Google Health platform.
Limeade, Inc. of Bellevue, Wash. has released its Wellness Bundle, a complete plug-and-play offering focused on improving employee health, wellness and productivity. It includes Limeade’s Employee Vitality service in conjunction with Microsoft HealthVault, Physicians Wellness Network webLAB general wellness lab testing services, Polar Electro heart rate monitors and Omron Healthcare pedometers.
The MRO Corp., a King of Prussia, Pa.-based provider of shared-service release-of-information (ROI) solutions for healthcare providers, has launched e-Request capability for disability ROI requests. The feature interfaces with the Social Security Administration to securely obtain requests for medical records from state disability offices to healthcare providers.
HealthEdge, a Burlington, Mass.-based provider of next-generation claims and benefit administration, business intelligence and portal solutions for healthcare payers, has announced the availability of HealthRules Payor 3.0, the latest version of its claims processing software.
Adaptive Planning, a Mountain View, Calif.-based provider of on-demand financial planning and reporting solutions, has released Adaptive Planning 5.0.
Connance, Inc., a Waltham, Mass.-based provider of predictive analytic solutions for hospital revenue cycle management, has unveiled Connance Agency Manager, a Web-based platform designed to enable healthcare providers to automate the placement to and oversight of collection agencies working on co-pays, deductibles and uninsured patient accounts.
WAUSAU Financial Systems, a Mosinee, Wis.-based provider of distributed payment and receivables processing solutions, is partnering with Revenue Management Solutions, a provider of revenue cycle management solutions for the healthcare industry, to extend healthcare payment processing capabilities to WAUSAU’s payment processing solutions.
PointOne Systems of Wauwatosa, Wis. has announced that its RedBox Technology health data analytics tool, previously offered to hospitals, research laboratories and healthcare providers, will now be available to anyone wishing to analyze individual health data.
Benefitfocus, of Charleston, S.C., has signed a six-year contract with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Montana to support its group business contracts with the company’s eEnrollment capabilities. Set to go live early next year, the online benefit enrollment application will provide BCBSMT groups with an online solution that can be integrated with BCBSMT’s exiting Benefitfocus eBilling platform.
Amerinet Inc. has signed a new affiliate agreement with the Indiana Federation of Ambulatory Surgical Centers that allows the healthcare group purchasing organization to exclusively use Amerinet’s national portfolio of product and service contracts.
Bullhorn, a Boston-based provider of staffing and recruiting software, has completed $26 million in new financing, led by Highland Capital Partners and General Catalyst Partners, The funding will allow the company to increase expansion in North America, further develop international markets, accelerate product development of innovative sourcing solutions and foster several global industry alliances.
Business Objects, of San Jose, Calif., has announced the availability of BusinessObjects Predictive Workbench, offering data mining and predictive analytics integrated with BusinessObjects XI 3.0 unified business intelligence platform.
Cisco Systems and the Atrion Networking Corporation have announced that Providence Community Health Centers, which operates eight health and dental facilities around Providence, R.I., has won the “Unplug & Win” $35,000 wireless network makeover contest. Cisco will contribute the products while Atrion will deliver the design and services.
Affinity Circles, of Mountain View, Calif., has launched InCircle Recruiting, a candidate sourcing tool that allows employers to target and engage qualified, passive candidates through the exclusive social networks they trust and build a pipeline of qualified, interested candidates for future openings.
Booz Allen Hamilton has been awarded a $450,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to assess and evaluate the scope of the medical identity theft problem in the United States.
Hoana Medical, Inc. of Honolulu has been awarded a Federal Supply Contract through the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs to allow the company to market and sell its LifeBed Patient Vigilance System to more than 240 federal medical facilities and DoD hospitals across the country.
mPay Gateway, a Minneapolis-based provider of point-of-care patient payments, has announced that e-Health Community Consultants, LLC, a Kentwood, Mich.-based physician-owned consulting firm offering value-based software and services, is mPay Gateway’s newest reseller.