Patient Portal Technologies, Inc., based in Baldwinsville, N.Y., has been awarded a contract extension from Crozer-Chester Medical Center, part of the Crozer-Keystone Health System, to provide its Total Satisfaction Service Program, including bedside education and entertainment systems, patient bedside communication systems and related patient support services.
The QuadraMed Corporation of Reston, Va., has announced that University Medical Center at Princeton, a unit of the New Jersey-based Princeton HealthCare System, will offer an ambulatory health record to its affiliated physician practices. The EHR will be supplied by Austin, Texas-based e-MDs in collaboration with QuadraMed.
Practice Fusion, based in San Francisco, has launched a free e-prescribing system for physicians.
Siemens Healthcare, based in Malvern, Pa., has announced that longtime customer United Health Services, a multi-facility healthcare system based in Binghamton, N.Y., has signed a contract for the company’s Soarian healthcare information system.
The Ricoh Americas Corporation, a West Caldwell, N.J.-based provider of digital office equipment, will host a series of Ricoh Healthcare InfoBrief seminars in seven cities across the country for healthcare professionals seeking to streamline paper-intensive medical processes.
Motion Computing has announced that Sumner County (Tenn.) Emergency Medical Services has selected the Motion F5 Rugged Tablet PC to enhance billing and patient data management processes.
The Eclipsys Corporation of Atlanta has announced that Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center in The Bronx, N.Y., has expanded its use of integrated clinical components of the Eclipsys Sunrise Enterprise suite of solutions, including activating Sunrise Emergency Care and Sunrise Ambulatory Care. In addition, the company has announced that Athens Regional Medical Center, a 375-bed referral center in Athens, Ga., will deploy the company’s PeakPractice EMR/PM solution. Finally, the company has announced that New York Downtown Hospital will launch a major It initiative involving multiple integrated components of the Sunrise Enterprise suite of solutions.
TeleHealth Services, a Raleigh, N.C.-based provider of healthcare-grade televisions and on-demand interactive patient education solutions, has announced that Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center in Fredericksburg, Va., will implement the company’s bedside patient education system. The hospital, part of the HCA network, is set to open this spring.
Ambir Technology, Inc., an Elmhurst, Ill.-based manufacturer and marketer of digital capture products, has launched a redesigned TravelScan Pro document and ID card scanner, to replace the old TravelScan Pro 600 model.
Design Clinicals, based in Seattle, has announced that Myrtue Medical Center in Harlan, Iowa, will implement the company’s MedsTracker software solution to expand electronic medication reconciliation to a full patient-safety platform.
eGistics has announced that Consultants in Radiology, P.A., a 14-member radiology practice in Texas, has deployed the company’s Digital Medical Practice solution to improve operating efficiency, accelerate document research and streamline secondary billing.
SEDLine, Inc., an Irvine, Calif.-based developer of neuromonitoring technologies to improve the care of patients under anesthesia or sedation, has acquired the brain function monitoring business of Hospira, Inc.
Skylight Healthcare Systems of San Diego has formalized a system-wide contractual agreement to deploy Skylight ACCESS at three additional Cancer Treatment Centers of America hospitals in Chicago, Philadelphia and Tulsa, Okla. The agreement follows the successful deployment of Skylight ACCESS at Western Regional Medical Center in Phoenix.
Biovista, Inc., based in Charlottesville, Va., has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has licensed the company’s Adverse Event Analysis (AEA) technology platform to help analyze, identify and better understand the way certain drugs can cause harmful side effects.
Aspect, a Chelmsford, Mass.-based developer of applied communications (UC) and collaboration technology, has acquired Quilogy, a St. Charles, Mo.-based IT services firm.
The Premier healthcare alliance, based in Charlotte, N.C., has announced that three hospitals will leverage its SafetySurveillor automated surveillance solution and the Duke Infection Control Outreach Network (DICON) to enhance their infection control programs. The hospitals are Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, Mass.; Lafayette General Medical Center in Lafayette, La.; and Mon General Hospital in Morgantown, W.Va.
The CDC Software Corporation, an Atlanta-based provider of enterprise software applications and services, has announced plans to acquire up to a 51 percent stake in Hon Kong-based Vitova, Ltd., a leading provider of enterprise content management services in China.
IQMax, based in Charlotte, N.C., has signed an agreement with 3M Health Information Systems of St. Paul, Minn., to make its enterprise mobile healthcare technology available with 3N’s dictation and transcription solutions. 3M will deliver its solutions to hospitals, physician practices and outpatient facilities on IQMax’s IQPlatform using Blackberry or Windows Mobile devices.
HealthPort, an Atlanta-based provider of revenue cycle management and release of information services, has announced that Florida Hospital, a 2,188-bed hospital system with eight locations across central Florida, has begun deployment of the company’s ROI technology and service solution alongside the organization’s Cerner Millennium electronic health record.
DSS, Inc., a Juno Beach, Fla.-based provider of software, integration, installation, project management, training, support and development of the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) electronic health record, has announced the immediate availability of vxVistA, a free and open-source version of VistA.
ITelagen, Inc., a Jersey City, N.J.-based provider of healthcare information technology, medical billing and electronic medical records, has announced an alliance with Bell Medical Services, Inc., a Marlboro, N.J.-based distributor of medical supplies, equipment and pharmaceuticals, aimed at encouraging the widespread, meaningful use of EMRs in physician practices throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states.
Wyse Technology, based in San Jose, Calif., has anno0unced the availability of the Wyse X90cw, an ultra-mobile virtual client device designed for “anywhere” access to cloud and client virtualization environments. The company has also launched Wyse TCX Suite 4.0, which unifies all existing TCX virtualization software solutions into a single product suite, and WSM 3.0 provisioning software.
Perceptive Informatics of Boston has been selected by Almirall, an international pharmaceutical company, to provide core solutions in its eClinical Suite for several clinic trials in the respiratory therapeutic area. Almirall will be using Perceptive’s DataLabs Electronic Data Capture (EDC) solution, as well as the company’s IMPACT Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS) and the ClinPhone Randomization and Trial Supply Management (RTSM) solutions.
The Wellsoft Corporation of Somerset, N.J., has announced that its first Emergency Department Information System (EDIS) customer, Ridgeview Medical Center in Waconia, Minn., will be migrating to the Wellsoft EDIS version 11 and adding new features, including electronic order entry and results reporting, facility and professional charge capture, clinical decision support for quality measures and HL7 interfaces.
Personal Remedies, based in Georgetown, Mass., has launched version 2.0 of its Knowledge Base and Software for Health and Nutrition.
Pharmacy OneSource, Inc., based in Bellevue, Wash., has announced that Florida Hospital Flagler has implemented the company’s Amplifi software solution to manage its formulary and communicate medication information throughout the hospital.
Omnicell, Inc., a Mountain View, Calif.-based provider of medication system solutions for acute care facilities, has announced that NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital will implement the company’s SinglePointe automated medication management solution.
Wolters Kluwer Health, based in Philadelphia, has announced that Southeast Alabama Medical Center in Dothan, Ala., has selected ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, to automate the creation, deployment and maintenance of order set solutions.
Carestream Health, Inc., of Rochester, N.Y., has introduced a new EHR-M3 screen for its CR mammography imaging systems that features reduced noise and a higher detector quantum efficiency (DQE) for improved image quality. The company has also announced a co-marketing agreement with Technology Partners, Inc., of Charlotte, N.C., that enables Technology Partners’ IMAGINEradiology billing solution to be integrated with Carestream’s RIS/PACS platforms.
Emmi Solutions, LLC, a Chicago-based developer of Web-based interactive multimedia patient education programs, is collaborating with the American Cancer Society to expand the existing suite of cancer-related programs.
The AnyWare Group, Inc., based in Toronto and St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, has announced that its ROAM solution has been made the remote access platform for the Emergency Neurosurgery Image Transfer System (ENITS), a project managed by eHealth Ontario, CritiCall Ontario and the London Health Sciences Center in the Canadian province of Ontario.
Picis, Inc., based in Wakefield, Mass., has announced that the Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Surrey, England, has implemented the company’s surgical, anesthesia, recovery room and critical care software solutions, all part of the CareSuite family of solutions.
Clinipace, a Morrisville, N.J.-based clinical research organization, has announced that NitricBio, a mid-stage specialty pharmaceutical company, has selected the company to manage and deploy multiple studies in support of medical applications of topical nitric oxide gas.
Consumer Health Technologies, Inc., of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has completed the acquisition of P+W Software, Inc., which provides FSA, HRA, Transit and cafeteria benefits services. The deal allows CHT to integrate P+W’s PowerPlus into its BenefitSpan administration solution for the consumer-driven healthcare marketplace.
Ekahau, Inc., a Reston, Va.-based provider of Wi-Fi-based real-time location systems, has announced that Flagler Hospital in St. Augustine, Fla., will deploy the Ekahau RTLS for a variety of hospital-wide asset-tracking, workflow and management applications.
RelayHealth, based in Atlanta, has announced that the Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pa., is implementing the company’s RevRunner eligibility solution to improve patients’ understanding of their health insurance benefits.
The Allviant Corporation of Scottsdale, Ariz., has announced that its CarePass technology is now available to members of the Dossia Consortium. CarePass is designed to enable consumers to control their personal health service communications and transactions by aggregating and delivering context-relevant information.
Royal Philips Electronics has introduced the eICU Length of Stay (LOS) Management Program, designed to enable hospitals to leverage eICU-driven quality improvements to reduce patient length of stay and improve ICU throughput and financial outcomes. The technology is included in the Philips VISICU suite. In addition, Philips VISICU has announced that it is working with Banner Health in Phoenix to introduce the eICU Sepsis Management Program.
ClearCount Medical Solutions has launched the SmartWand-DTX, an RFID-based solution designed to allow hospitals to keep track of surgical sponges used during surgeries by tracking them before and after the procedure. Medline Industries, Inc. of Mundelein, Ill., has been named the exclusive distributor of both the SmartWand-DTX and SmartSponge System.
Health Level Seven, an Ann Arbor, Mich.-based healthcare information technology standards organization, has changed its name to Health Level Seven International to reflect the company’s focus on the development of global healthcare IT standards.
INFINITT Healthcare, a developer of picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) and other advanced imaging and information technologies, has established INFINITT SE Asia SDN, BHD (ISEA), based in Malaysia. The subsidiary is Seoul, South Korea-based INFINITT’s sixth, following units in North America, Japan, Taiwan, Shanghai, Southeast Asia and Europe.
Fujitsu has launched eight new LifeBook notebooks and tablet PCs in North America, including the smallest multi-touch handheld PC, and a performance system featuring an HD high-resolution 18.4-inch display.
Electronic Payment Exchange (EPX) has moved its corporate headquarters to a new facility in Wilmington, Del.
Ingenix, based in Eden Prairie, Minn., has launched a new program to help physicians integrate healthcare IT into their practices that includes interest-free financing, health information technology services and performance guarantees centered around then company’s CareTracker EHR. The Ingenix loan program is underwritten by OptumHealth Bank.
Allscripts-Misys Healhcare Solutions of Chicago has introduced the Allscripts Stimulus Program, which provides physicians with a guarantee that the Allscrpts EHR will meet certification standards set forth by the Department of Health and Human Services. The program also enables physicians to forego payments on new software for the first six months on purchases of EHR solutions. The company has also announced that Legacy Health of Portland, Ore., has selected the Allscripts Care Management solution for its six hospitals and two post-acute care facilities and Catholic Health Initiatives of Denver will implement the Allscripts EHR solution for its 1,050 employed physicians in 19 states. Finally, the company has announced that the Renaissance Medical Management Company of Wayne, Pa., will implement the Allscripts EHR and Practice Management (PM) system for 51 family practice and internal medicine physicians.
The Cerner Corporation of Kansas City, Mo., has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its CareAware iBus medical device connectivity solution, designed to connect medical devices to an electronic health record.
MEDecision, Inc., a Wayne, Pa.-based developer of collaborative healthcare management solutions, has announced that the Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care will use the company’s Alineo healthcare management platform and Nexalign healthcare information exchange service to manage care for its 750,000 Medicaid beneficiaries in Arkansas and Alabama.
MedAssets, Inc., based in Atlanta, has announced that the Texas Purchasing Coalition, which operates the Healthcare Coalition of Texas, has signed an agreement to use the company’s supply chain solutions, including group purchasing (GPO) services, physician preference item (PPI) consulting services and spend management analytics.
