Thursday, October 9, 2008

October Healthcare Headlines

St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital IPA (TX) selects Valence Health to help them become a clinically integrated provider organization.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/valence-health-adds-st-lukes/story.aspx?guid=%7b5D499A2E-41A0-428F-94DB-4EFE9F0C2361%7d&dist=hppr
Sept. 29, 2008

ZLB Plasma is now a licensed user of Mediware’s RecruitTrak software.
http://www.mediware.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=267&Itemid=132
Sept. 29, 2009


Garden City Hospital (MI) has implemented three Web-based scheduling software modules from Concerro, formerly known as BidShift.
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080929005361&newsLang=en
September 29, 2008

Seattle Children’s Hospital and the University of Washington will implement Microsoft’s Amalga technology.
http://www.microsoft.com/amalga/news/default.mspx
Sept. 30, 2008

Zynx Healthcare announces that in Q3 it added more than 1,755 evidence-related charges to order sets and plans of care in its clinical decision support products.
http://www.zynxhealth.com/GlobalNav/Newsroom/PressReleases/tabid/128/newsid660/123/Default.aspx
October 1, 2008

Dell, Intel, and Motion Computing are teaming up to offer a new wireless assessment service that provides comprehensive wired and wired network analysis, design and validation.
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/corp/pressoffice/en/2008/2008_10_01_rr_000?c=us&l=en&s=corp
October 1, 2008

Quantros announces its acquisition of Medcast Health Analysts. The companies’ combined solutions will provide clinical, financial, and operational data assessment tools within a single platform.
http://www.quantros.com/news_10022008.htm
October 2, 2008

Cerner expects 7,000 people to descend on Kansas City on Sunday for its 2008 Cerner Health Conference. The city is hoping for a $4.5 million economic boost.
http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2008/09/29/daily40.html
October 3, 2008

Steve Case’s Revolution Health is merging with Waterfront Media in a $300 million deal. The combined entity will be known as Waterfront Media.
http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2008/09/29/daily98.html
October 3, 2008

$175 million to support eight Cerner sites for two years? That’s what BT wants to charge NPfIT to replace Fujitsu.
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/10/03/232535/npfit-officials-may-pay-out-100m-to-bt-for-extra-nhs-it.htm
Oct. 3, 2008

Hawaii’s Big Island is losing three of its five orthopedic surgeons, including the president-elect of the state medical association.
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20081003/NEWS01/810030389/1001
October 3, 2008

Allina Hospitals & Clinics, the Twin Cities' biggest medical group, confirmed Friday that it is eliminating 250 to 350 jobs because of growing financial pressures http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/30275584.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aU7EaDiaMDCiUT
October 3, 2008

Kaiser Permanente Southern California Leads the Nation in Breast Cancer Screening.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/kaiser-permanente-southern-california-leads/story.aspx?guid=%7bB774AE1A-1148-4E7B-A91F-F54DB0254CDF%7d&dist=hppr
Oct. 3, 2008

ConnectivHealth names Steve NeSmith to the newly creative role of vice president of interactive. http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/connectivhealth-names-steve-nesmith-vice/story.aspx?guid=%7b11868A56-E8E1-40B7-914A-4E06A92D02A7%7d&dist=hppr
Oct 03, 2008

Hospital consultants ask for more money
http://thecalifornian.com/article/20081004/NEWS01/810040334/1002
October 4, 2008

MediNotes CEO Don Schoen says sales leads tripled the first day after its acquisition by Eclipsys, speculating that doctors are familiar with the Eclipsys name from their hospital work.
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20081004/BUSINESS/810040322/-1/NEWS04
October 4, 2008


Fulton County Hospital (AR) and CIO Phillip Hughes get mentioned in a local newspaper’s story about the hospital’s PACS. http://www.areawidenews.com/story/1466914.html

Saturday, May 17, 2008

May Healthcare News

Hi Friends,
These are some of the Healthcare News for the Month of May 2008. Hope u find it useful
IBM and Siemens Partner to Help Community Hospitals Save on IT Infrastructure Costs
InfoLogix Buys Delta Health Systems along with its On-Demand Executive Information System
Connecticut State Medical Society Selects athenahealth’s Practice Management Services
Leading UK Healthcare Group Selects iSOFT as its Strategic Health Information Technology Partner
EDS Inks 7-Year, $391 Million Georgia Medicaid Contract
Oncology Partners Delivers Medical Billing Services for Bluegrass Hematology Oncology
TriZetto Group CFO leaves for personal reasons, CEO says won't impact acquisition by Apax
Karishma Software wins IBM award
Privately held Greenway Medical Technologies announces a 52% increase in sales bookings for their fiscal quarter ending March 31st compared to 2007.
Concord Hospital in NH will use Juniper Networks for its network infrastructure. The network will include the connection of 11 total sites, including various healthcare centers, clinics, and physician offices.
CMS announces the six vendors participating in its physician quality reporting initiative. Allscripts, Anceta, Cerner, DocSite, eClinicalWorks, and NextGen are providing data pulled from EHRs to measure quality data reporting capabilities.
Intermountain Healthcare signs a multi-year agreement with Novo Innovations to enhance information exchanges between Intermountain’s hospital systems and physician practices without EMRs. Novo’s software is already being used to connect several affiliated practices with existing EMRs.
Labcorp most likely to buy both Stanford Hospitals outreach and Carilion Outreach Labs(Roanoke, VA) CEO David King
Mayo Clinic Goes Wireless
MediCorp Selects EDIS
Dr.Reddy’s announces the completion of two acquisitions
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McKesson and Phillips Acquisition

McKesson Recent Acquisitions:
McKesson Acquisition of Vivalog to Deliver Case Sharing and Clinical Conferencing
McKesson Buys Revenue Cycle Vendor

Phillips Recent Acquisitions:
Emergin, Visicu, Respironics, Tomcat , Shenzhen Goldway Industrial, Inc, now Philips announces it will acquire Dixtal Biomedica e Tecnologia, which makes hospital monitoring equipment.

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