Saturday 29 August 2015

Health IT Business News Roundup for the Week of August 28, 2015

M&A, Financial Reports and Funding

Xerox will acquire RSA Medical, a provider of technology-based health risk management services, for an undisclosed sum…Inovalon, a provider of health care analytics services, has acquired consulting firm Avalere Health for $140 million…Cardon Outreach, a provider of integrated revenue cycle management services, will merge with Diversified Healthcare Resources, a provider of hospital eligibility and enrollment services.

ZocDoc, an online physician appointment scheduling tool, has raised $130 million in a funding round with participation from undisclosed investors…SkinVision, a mobile dermatology application, has raised $3.4 million in a funding round with participation from multiple investors…DynoSense, a provider of health scanner technology, has raised $9.4 million in a Series A funding round with participation from undisclosed investors.

Contracts

Vantage Oncology, a network of cancer treatment facilities, has selected Wellcentive’s quality reporting and population health management tools…John Muir Health in California has selectedZipnosis’ online diagnostic platform…Availity, a real-time health information network, has selectedAmendola Communications’ public relations and content marketing services…Memorial Hermann Health System in Texas has selected CynergisTek’s health information privacy and security tools…Denver Health, Rockford Health System in Illinois and George Washington Medical Faculty Associates in Washington, D.C., have selected Hyland’s enterprise content management software.

Alameda County Emergency Medical Services and the City of Alameda Fire Department in California have selected Beyond Lucid Technologies’ EHR and interoperability platform…Cookeville Medical Center in Tennessee has selected Allscripts’ chronic care management tool…the Department of Veterans Affairs has selected Systems Made Simple andEpic to overhaul its medical appointment scheduling system…Capitol Health Network in California has selected Sutherland Healthcare Solutions’ population health management services.

Product Development and Marketing

Theranos has integrated its lab testing services with Practice Fusion’s EHR system; RadNet has integrated its diagnostic imaging services with Practice Fusion’s EHR system…Hospira will integrate its infusion pump data into Cerner’s EHR system…Axway has integrated its business-to-business and application program interface management services with OneHealthPort’s health information exchange…CVS Health has partnered with telehealth firms American Well, Doctor on Demand and Teladoc to develop new remote care services.

Personnel

Lisa McVey, former CIO at McKesson, has been named vice president of technology and operations at BioIQ, a health IT vendor…Justin Brookman, former head of the Center for Democracy and Technology’s consumer privacy project, has been named policy director of theFederal Trade Commission’s Office of Technology Research and Investigation…Carol Steltenkamp, CMIO at UK Healthcare, has been named chair of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society board of managers; Christian Lovis, head of University Hospitals of Geneva’s division of medical information sciences, has been named vice chair of the HIMSS board of managers.

Dan Strong — former CFO of Control4, a provider of automation systems — has been named CFO of Health Catalyst, a provider of health data warehousing and analytics services…Anthony Tardugno, former senior vice president and CIO at AvMed Health Plan in Florida, has been named vice president and chief information and security officer at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana.

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