The Premier healthcare alliance has announced that Ottumwa Regional Health Center in Ottumwa, Iowa, is joining LaborConnect, Premier’s labor management program designed to help hospitals succeed under changes imposed by healthcare reform. The hospital will use Premier’s OperationsAdvisor productivity solution, which monitors employee productivity and performance, tracking the use of labor costs and aligning labor decisions with strategic objectives.
Omnicell, a Mountain View, Calif.-based provider of system solutions for acute healthcare facilities, has announced an agreement to co-market Sentry Data Systems’ Sentinel RCM application, which has a 340B solution component. Sentry’s revenue cycle management offering will be integrated with Omnicell’s new WorkflowRx 7.0 software to address the inventory management, financial reconciliation and compliance aspect of participating in the 340B Drug Pricing Program.
InstaMed, a Philadelphia-based healthcare payments network, has released version 2.0 of its Patient Estimator solution, which is designed to enable healthcare providers to increase collections, accelerate cash flow and decrease bad debt by improving the payment process at the point of contact.
Casenet, Inc., a Bedford, Mass.-based developer of healthcare management software solutions, has completed a $2 million funding round. comprised of an options sale and debt financing.
TeleTracking Technologies of Morrisville, N.C., has announced that the Methodist Healthcare System, based in San Antonio, Texas, will use the company’s RadarFind real-time locating system to track thousands of assets, and eventually patients, across five of its 24 facilities, with plans for future expansion.
MedNetworks, based in Newton, Mass., has announced its launch. the company will offer pharmaceutical firms, health plans, corporations and hospitals a platform for analyzing the social networks of physicians and patients, with the goal of identifying trends that can help them influence business operations and improve healthcare delivery.
IBM has acquired Datacap, a Tarrytown, N.Y.-based provider of information-capture solutions.
Medworxx, a Toronto-based developer of patient flow, compliance and education solutions for healthcare providers, has entered the UK market through a partnership with ModelAdvice DC Consulting Ltd UK.
SumTotal Systems, a Mountain View, Calif.-based developer of talent development solutions, has announced that ProCure Treatment Centers has successfully deployed the company’s Results OnDemand-Learning solution to train its healthcare professionals online.
Comprehensive Health Services, Inc., a Reston, Va.-based provider of onsite health centers, is partnering with Jacksonville, Fla.-based St. Vincent’s HealthCare, part of the Ascension Health network, to assist Jacksonville’s major employers in setting up onsite employee health centers.
MedAssurant, based in Bowie, Md., has announced an agreement with the National Committee for Quality Assurance to support the development of new measure of healthcare quality that the NCQA is developing under a contract it has with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The Nightingale Informatix Corporation has announced a five-year agreement to supply the Ontario, Canada-based AIM Health Group with Nightingale On demand, the company’s enterprise EMR and practice management solution, fur use in AIM’s family practice, walk-in and pain management clinics.
GE Healthcare’s Centricity Practice Management Solution, version 9.5, has been certified by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology as a pre-market conditionally certified 2011 ambulatory EHR, with additional certification for child health and cardiovascular medicine with advanced reporting.
NextGate, based in Arcadia, Calif., has announced the release of MatchMetrix 7, a master data management platform used to build industry-specific indexes, and three MDM suites for healthcare organizations that are built on the new platform – Enterprise Master Patient Index Suite, Provider Index Suite and Terminology Index Suite.
Webmedx, an Atlanta-based provider of medical transcription services and speech recognition and quality analytics technology, has announced that Madison Center, a behavioral healthcare services provider serving Indiana and southwestern Michigan, will use the company’s Web-based platform.
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Skytron, based in Grand Rapids, Mich., has announced that Michigan-based Spectrum Health has implemented the company’s real-time location (RTLS) collaborative solution, powered by Awarepoint and Intelligent InSites, to track and manage more than 5,300 hospital assets through its downtown and cross-town campuses.
Carestream Health, based in Rochester, N.Y., has announced worldwide price increases on all of its imaging films and related supplies. The increases of up to double-digit percentages vary depending on market conditions around the world and are driven by price increases of commodities such as silver, polyester, oil and electricity.
McKesson, based in Atlanta, has announced that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will be using the company’s InterQual Criteria clinical decision support software for its Medicare inpatient auditing programs for the 11th straight year.
Softscape, a Wayland, Mass.-based developer of people management solutions, has announced a partnership with Berlin, Germany-based FIT Talent Management GmbH to sell, implement and operate people management solutions specifically in the German-speaking parts of Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
The MRO Corporation, a King of Prussia, Pa.-based provider of disclosure management applications and services for healthcare organizations, has announced that UC Health University Hospital in Cincinnati will use the company;s ROI processing services.
Healthcare Data Services, a Boston-based provider of data analysis and management solutions, has received software certification from the National Committee for Quality Assurance for its HDS Analyst 2.0 product for 2010. The company will also seek certification for 2011.
The Physician Executive Management Center, a St. Louis-based executive search firm focused solely on the recruitment and placement of physicians in executive leadership positions, has changed its name to the Physician Executive Leadership Center.
NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc., based in Horsham, Pa., has been surveyed by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education and awarded accreditation for two years as a provider of continuing medical education for physicians.
HealthWyse, a Wilmington, Mass.-based provider of home health and hospice agency automation software, has launched StartWyse, a Web-based program designed to help small certified healthcare and hospice agencies transition to a paperless environment using the company’s clinical and financial software.
The Cardinal Health Foundation, based in Dublin, Ohio, has announced more than $1 million in grant funding to help U.S. hospitals, health systems and community health clinics improve the efficiency and quality of care. The grants have been awarded this year to 40 organizations in 25 states as part of the 2010 Cardinal Health Foundation E3 Grant Program, which was launched in 2008.
MedCo Data, a Tampa, Fla.-based provide of technology and informatics expertise for physician practices, has unveiled the Dermesse Online Shopping Cart, a shopping service designed to help dermatology practices enhance revenues through the secure online sales of the Dermesse line of skin care products.
FormFast, a St. Louis-based provider of enterprise workflow solutions, has been named a certified Microsoft Partner.
Upp Technology, a Downers Grove, Ill.-based provider of emergency preparedness and response solutions, has announced that the Public Health Department of Santa Barbara County in California has selected the IRMS/EM solution suite for inventory management and emergency management and response.
Siemens Healthcare, based in Malvern, Pa., has announced a partnership with ExitCare, a provider of patient education content, to provide expanded patient education services to the company’s health information technology customer base.
Novation, an Irving, Texas-based provide of supply contracting services for healthcare companies, has awarded an agreement to Sanofi Aventis of Bridgewater, N.J., for NOVAPLUS Lovenox.