Siemens Healthcare has announced that the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., will implement Soarian Financials, while Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital Medical Center in Plattsburg, N.Y. will implement Soarian Clinicals, Soarian Emergency Department, Soarian Device Connect and other surround applications. Additionally, Franklin Medical Center in Winnsboro, La., has signed a 10-year contract that includes implementing MedSeries4 General Financials, Patient Accounting, Soarian Clinicals and several other solutions.
The Cardinal Health Foundation, part of Dublin, Mo.-based Cardinal Health, has announced that it has awarded more than $1.2 million to non-profit programs that seek to improve healthcare and wellness in six U.S. communities where Cardinal health has the highest concentration of employees. Those communities are Albuquerque, N.M., central Ohio, Little Rock, Ark., northern Chicago, Radcliff, Ky. and San Diego.
IVANS, a Stamford, Conn.-based provider of corporate connectivity solutions and services, has announced that its Real-Time Medicare Eligibility Verification solution has helped Pennsylvania-based Mobile X-Ray Imaging, Inc., reduce its costs for uncompensated care by cutting Medicare claims denial rates in half.
MedAssets, based in Atlanta, has announced that the Baylor Health Care System in Dallas has selected the company is its strategic supply chain partner, including group purchasing (GPO) services, physician preference item (PPI) cost reduction services and enabling technology.
Chesapeake System Solutions, Inc., an Owings Mills, Md.-based provider of integrated financial governance, risk and compliance software solutions, has announced that Corporation Service Company, a provider of legal andfinancial services, has implemented Chesapeake¹s Unclaimed Property Compliance System (UPCS) software.
Comprehensive Health Solutions, Inc., of Reston, Va., has launched Healix, a multi-functional technology solution designed to offer integrated electronic medical record and enterprise practice management functionality; EMR/EPM integration with a customer’s health plan and pharmacy benefit management company; lab and various other diagnostic interfaces; a patient portal; e-prescribing; provider dispensing; an embedded health risk assessment tool; predictive modeling; and warehousing, data analytics and customized reporting.
PreMD, Inc., a Toronto-based provider of predictive medicine services, has announced that it is reducing staffing and operations due to the economy.
Glenwood Systems, LLC of Waterbury, Conn., has launched GlaceComplete, a combination of software, process and service designed to improve medical practice revenue and reduce operation costs through the integration of electronic medical record and practice management software to a proprietary billing process.
Orion Health has joined The Alliance for Clinical Excellence (ACE), a global industry alliance launched at the regional HIMSS Healthcare IT Conference in Kuala Lumpur designed to address the global demand for predictive, evidence-based metrics to determine the cost-benefit equation that helps evaluate the deployment of IT systems.
HSA Insider, a division of San Francisco-based Canopy Financial, has released the eighth edition of “HSA Road Rules,” a reference guide of Health Savings Accounts. Both employer and consumer versions are available for immediate download at www.hsainsider.com.
Pre-employ.com, Inc., a Redding, Calif.-based provider of background screening services and other risk management solutions, has been awarded a three-year contract by Premier Purchasing Partners, L.P., the group purchasing unit of Premier, Inc.