Seattle-based OCS has announced the release of The Home Health Financial Monitor, a collection of financial reporting and analysis products for home healthcare executives. Among the products in the collection is Executive Brief and Guidance Dashboards. In addition, OCS and Press Ganey Associates, Inc. of West Bend, Ind. have formed an alliance to launch The Home Health Performance Monitor.
Ziegler HealthVest Management LLC of Chicago, which makes early- to mid-stage equity investments in established healthcare services and IT companies, has announced the purchase of a significant stake in Healthsense, Inc., a provider of assistive health monitoring technologies for at-risk individuals.
SoftLight Development, an Irving, Texas-based provider of healthcare consulting, software and pay-per-use services for data management, has unveiled Manage My Practice, a pay-per-use application that integrates medical practice management software into a user-friendly interface for medical offices and practice management firms.
NextPhase, a Peabody, Mass.-based provider of IT asset disposition services enabling secure and cost-effective disposal of outdated and obsolete IT assets, has announced that its technology will be offered to customers of Allscripts, a Chicago-based provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions used by physicians.
Precyse Solutions of Wayne, Pa. has announced its success in helping the Baptist Health System in Alabama prepare for the pending Medicare severity adjusted diagnosis related groups (MS-DRGs), effective Oct. 1. BHS estimates that it prevented 10 per cent to 20 percent of losses in coding productivity by addressing the new MS-DRGs early.
New Century Infusion Solutions of Brea, Calif. has announced its launch as an integrated single specialty provider (ISSP) focused on providing comprehensive management solutions for the oncology market.
MphasiS Healthcare Solutions, a Phoenix-based provider of health insurance application development, business process outsourcing services, IT engineering and operational consulting, has announced the following new contracts for its JackRabbit Report Server: Amalgamated Ullicare of New York; Benefit Management, Inc. of Joplin, Mo.; Cultural Insurance Services, International of Stamford, Conn.; Mutual of Omaha of Omaha, Neb. and Physician's Care of California of Santa Ana, Calif.
Express Scripts, Inc., a St. Louis-based provider of pharmacy benefit management services, has announced the acquisition of Baltimore-based ConnectYourCare, LLC, a national consumer directed health plan account administrator, from Revolution Health. Terms of the deal were undisclosed.
Jersey City, N.J.-based ISO, a provider of products and services that help measure, manage and reduce risk, has announced the acquisition of HealthCare Insight, a Salt Lake City-based provider of solutions that allow healthcare payers to prevent fraud, abuse and overpayment.
Senior Whole Health, a Cambridge, Mass.-based Medicare Special Needs Plan serving Medicare/Medicaid beneficiaries in New Haven, Hartford and Middlesex counties in Connecticut, is extending its coverage into Connecticut's Fairfield County, beginning in January of 2008.
The Keystone Peer Review Organization, Inc., a Harrisburg, Pa.-based medical management firm, has secured two new contracts from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The company has been awarded the Medical review of Durable Medical Equipment Regional Carrier Services for the Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) Program, while the company's Ohio branch was awarded the Conducting Outreach Activities Designed to Improve Beneficiary Awareness of the Quality Improvement Program (QIO) Case Review Program.
Passport Health Communications, Inc. of Franklin, Tenn. has announced that Passport IntelliSource, a fully integrated, HL7-based revenue cycle management solution, has been implemented by the Orlando Regional Healthcare System in Florida. In addition, Passport Health has expanded its contract with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee to provide real-time claim status updates,
EZ-CAP, the Longwood, Fla.-based flagship product of MZI healthcare, LLC, has signed health plan administration contracts with Puget Sound Health Partners, MedManagement IPA Services and HealthTexas Management, LLC.
SK&A Information Services, an Irvine, Calif.-based provider of healthcare practitioner information, and MindSet Marketing Solutions, a provider of consumer health data mining and analytics, have announced an agreement to mutually support each other's sales and marketing activities.
Lawson Software of St. Paul, Minn. has announced a partnership with JGI, a provider of enterprise software applications and business intelligence solutions, to allow JGI to assist with deployment of the Lawson Business Intelligence suite and provide enterprise reporting, training and consulting services. In addition, Lawson has announced that it will showcase its new Lawson Strategic Human Capital Management suite at the 2007 HR technology Conference in Chicago.
St. Jude Medical, Inc. of St. Paul, Minn. has announced that it has been awarded a two-year Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) contract with Premier Purchasing Partners, one of the nation's largest healthcare purchasing alliances.
Humana Veterans Healthcare Services, Inc. of Louisville, Ky. has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to participate in the department's Project HERO (Health Care Effectiveness through Resource Optimization) program.
CIGNA HealthCare of Bloomfield, Conn. has been contracted by the SAMBA Federal Employee Benefit Association to offer the company's care management programs and Web tools to SAMBA's members.
Toronto-based Medworxx has announced a strategic partnership with Canadian Healthcare Management, Inc. to deliver a comprehensive Clinical Utilization Management solution to hospitals.