Saturday, January 19, 2013

Health IT Business News Roundup for the Week of January 18 ...

M&A, Financial Reports and Funding

TeleTech Holdings, a provider of telecommunications and information services, has acquired Technology Solutions Group, a provider of communications consulting and other services for the health care sector and other industries, for an undisclosed sum...Blue Health Intelligence, a health care data mining company, has acquired Intelimedix, a health care data analytics firm, for an undisclosed sum.

Iagnosis, which provides a website where consumers can consult with skin care specialists, has raised $4 million from angel investors during the past year.

Contracts

Springhill Medical Center in Alabama has selected Omnicell's medication management and business analytics software...Saint Mary's Hospital in Connecticut has selected Anthelio Healthcare Solutions' health IT services...HealthEast Care System, a health care system in Minnesota, will deploy RelayHealth's health information exchange system...Primary Partners, a multi-provider organization in Florida, has selected AMC Health's home-based telemonitoring services.

FACES Foundation, a not-for-profit medical foundation in Oregon, has selected SOAPware's EHR system...Premier, a performance improvement alliance of 2,700 hospitals and 90,000 other health care sites, has selected Precision Dynamics Corporation-St. John's patient identification products...the American Hernia Society has selected ArborMetrix's cloud-based clinical registry system...Winston Medical Center in Mississippi has selected Healthland's EHR system...Saint Anthony's Health Center in Illinois has selected Specialists On Call's telehealth service for access to remote neurologists.

Product Development and Marketing

Harvard Medical School will integrate its published content with Orca Health's multimedia learning features to create a mobile health application and interactive electronic books...Phytel, a provider of population health management tools, has entered into a strategic agreement with Verisk Health, a provider of data-driven risk assessment and performance management tools, to develop an integrated claims-based risk assessment and medical cost management system... athenahealth, a provider of cloud-based EHR, practice management and care coordination services, has announced a partnership to integrate its claims processing capabilities with MedOasis' anesthesia coding, charge-entry, contract management and compliance knowledge and capabilities.

Personnel

Camille Watson -- former vice president of marketing and communications at LivingSocial -- has been named chief marketing officer at Audax Health, a digital health services provider; Tom Perrault -- former vice president of human resources at Meebo, a social networking company -- has been named chief people officer at Audax; Dogu Celebi -- who formerly worked at OptumInsight, a health services company -- has been named senior vice president of informatics at Audax; Phil Harker -- former senior leader at OptumInsight and Ingenix -- has been named senior vice president of client development and operations at Audax?Gaspere Geraci -- vice president of physician leadership in quality and value at the Pennsylvania Medical Society -- has been appointed chair of the e-Health Partnership Authority of Pennsylvania...Diane Adams -- executive vice president of culture and talent at Allscripts -- will leave the company on Jan. 19.

Kathleen Frawley -- a professor and chair of DeVry University's health IT program -- has been elected president and chair of the board of directors for the American Health Information Management Association; Angela Kennedy -- chair of the department of health informatics and information management at Louisiana Tech University -- has been named president- and chair-elect of AHIMA's board of directors; Kimberly Baldwin-Stried Reich -- compliance manager and care management coordinator at the Lake County Physicians' Association -- has been named speaker of the house for AHIMA's board of directors; Susan Carey -- system director of health information management for Norton Healthcare -- has been named to AHIMA's board of directors; Dana McWay -- executive/clerk of court for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri -- has been named to AHIMA's board of directors; Cindy Zak -- corporate director of health information management at Yale New Haven Health -- has been named to AHIMA's board of directors.

Source: http://www.ihealthbeat.org/articles/2013/1/18/health-it-business-news-roundup-for-the-week-of-january-18-2013.aspx

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