Vendor News

Read about the latest contracts, mergers, and product announcements in the health care I.T. marketplace.

KLAS Ranks I.T. Outsource Companies

Joseph Goedert | May 17

A new report from vendor research firm KLAS Enterprises ranks customer satisfaction levels for eight companies offering outsourced health information technology services.

Group Practices

Hospitals

Payers

Tableau Sold as “DATA” in Stock Market Debut

Justin Kern of Information Management magazine | May 17

Analytics and visualization vendor Tableau Software introduced itself to Wall Street on May 17 by ringing the opening bell and starting sales of 8.2 million shares of common stock at $31.

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Payers

Hospitals

McKesson Software Giveaway for Charity Care Expands

Joseph Goedert | May 14

McKesson Corp. is expanding a program launched in November 2012 to give away $1 million in licenses for ambulatory software in practices providing charity care in regions with high poverty levels.

EHR

Group Practices

Practice Management

Revenue Cycle & Payments

Insurers to Business Associates: Standardize Security Best Practices

Joseph Goedert | May 13

HITRUST, a health industry consortium best known for developing the Common Security Framework of best practices, now has several of its members that will require business associates to follow the framework and document compliance with it.

Group Practices

Payers

Hospitals

Data Security

Policy & Regulation

Allscripts Stock Dips on Poor First Quarter

Joseph Goedert | May 10

The stock price of Allscripts Healthcare Solutions fell 5.6 percent at the open of trading on May 10 as the software vendor announced first quarter 2013 results that significantly missed investment analyst expectations.

Hospitals

Group Practices

EHR

Electronic Data Interchange

Practice Management

Revenue Cycle Management

Revenue Cycle & Payments

Michigan HIE Links EMS, Fire Departments to Hospitals

Joseph Goedert | May 09

Michigan Health Connect, a large regional health information exchange, is connecting fire departments and emergency medical services to its network that links 67 hospitals including eight delivery systems, and ancillary providers across the lower peninsula of the state.

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Group Practices

Health Info Exchange

Decision Support

Hospitals

Payers

HIT Vendor News Round-up

Gary Baldwin | May 07

Meaningful use certifications, mobile job searches, a new telemedicine product and a new name for an established firm are among recent announcements from health information technology vendors:

EHR

Group Practices

Hospitals

Policy & Regulation

Stimulus

Mobile Technology

Practice Management

Decision Support

60 Seconds Smarter: ICD-10

May 06

The tenth edition of the International Classification of Diseases is set to be rolled out in the United States, and getting smarter about ICD-10 is critical for all industry stakeholders.

Coding

Disease Management

EHR

Hospitals

Payers

Policy & Regulation

Revenue Cycle Management

Revenue Cycle & Payments

New Leaders at Software Vendor TriZetto

Joseph Goedert | May 06

The board of directors at payer/provider software vendor TriZetto Corp. announced on May 3 that Chair and CEO Trace Devanny was leaving immediately to pursue other options.

Payers

Group Practices

Hospitals

Electronic Data Interchange

Revenue Cycle Management

Revenue Cycle & Payments

Health HIT Vendor News Round-up: Explorys, Omnicell, RGP Healthcare & NextGen

Joseph Goedert | May 03

New sales or introductions of data analytics, medication management, incident management and ICD-10 software are among recent announcements from health information technology vendors:

Payers

Hospitals

Group Practices

Medication Management

Coding

Policy & Regulation

Top HIS Vendors by Revenue

Vince Ciotti and Bob Alcaro | May 01

How does your HIS vendor rank in terms of annual revenue?

Hospitals

EHR

Want to Impress OCR During a HIPAA Audit? Write a Book

Joseph Goedert | May 01

Here is a tutorial from the Cleveland Clinic on maximizing proof of HIPAA privacy/security rule compliance through organized documentation by making a Book of Evidence.

Data Security

Consumer Health

EHR

Health Info Exchange

Group Practices

Hospitals

Payers

Policy & Regulation

Stimulus

Greenway Stock Tanks as Revenue Model Changes

Joseph Goedert | Apr 29

The stock price of ambulatory software vendor Greenway Medical Technologies fell almost 23 percent on April 29 then immediately gained 4 percent in after-hours trading after the company significantly downgraded its financial performance for the rest of fiscal 2013, which ends on June 30.

Group Practices

EHR

Practice Management

Revenue Cycle Management

Revenue Cycle & Payments

New Sunquest Lab System Certified for 2014 Meaningful Use

Joseph Goedert | Apr 29

Laboratory vendor Sunquest Information Systems is the latest in a growing list of health information technology vendors with a product that has received federally-deemed certification for compliance with one or more criteria of the ONC 2014 Edition electronic health records meaningful use program, which includes recently revised Stage 1 criteria for 2014 and Stage 2.

Group Practices

Hospitals

EHR

Policy & Regulation

Stimulus

Kronos Goes Mobile with Health Workforce Management

Joseph Goedert | Apr 26

Kronos Inc. has introduced a health care-specific version of its Workforce Tablet Analytics, a suite of portable workforce management applications running on an iPad.

Hospitals

Group Practices

Mobile Technology