Corporate Strategy

Time to Roll for SafeMed

Joseph Goedert, News Editor
“As a start-up, we are very comfortable with where we are and where we’re heading,” says Richard Noffsinger, CEO at the company." " Noffsinger, who joined San Diego-based SafeMed in December, formerly headed Microsoft Corp.’s health care division.

Philips Working To Digest Its Buys

Joseph Goedert, News Editor
“We’ve gained considerable market share in our patient monitoring space,” says Brent Shafer, CEO at Philips Healthcare’s North American operations in Andover, Mass." " The name Philips Healthcare also is new, after parent Royal Philips Electronics reorganized in 2007.

Taking On a New Task

Joseph Goedert, News Editor
Competing with Cambridge, Mass.-based athenahealth Inc., among others, the new Practice Solutions service bundles NextGen’s practice management software—and electronic records software if the client desires—with outsourced billing and claims clearinghouse services.

Staying the Course, With a Twist

Joseph Goedert, News Editor
For eight years, SRSsoft has sold a document imaging and management system for physicians who want electronic records, but not a full-fledged electronic medical records systems.

Business as Usual No Longer

Joseph Goedert, News Editor
Introduction last fall of a reseller program and a simplified versions of its single-sign-on software mark new paths for Sentillion Inc.

Vendor Powers Up Following IPO

Joseph Goedert, News Editor
Flush from a $130 million initial public offering, from which it received $90 million, athenahealth Inc. has retired $30 million in debt and has the rest in the bank.

Misys Returns to its Roots

Joseph Goedert
The bottom line was that Misys was not effectively competing with the major acute care vendors, says Vern Davenport, executive vice president and general manager of the Raleigh, N.C.-based company. Davenport joined the company in February. The acute care sector is "very demanding from a research and development viewpoint and very competitive," he notes. "For us to compete with those guys day in and day out required more investment than we were probably making." So…

Vendor Sees Opportunities in I.T. Donation Programs

Joseph Goedert, News Editor
After the Department of Health and Human Services approved the donation of information technology to community physicians, Greenway Medical Technologies started targeting its electronic health records software to hospitals that were interested in starting I.T. donation programs.

QuadraMed Tries to Turn Corner

Joseph Goedert, News Editor
Few health information technology vendors were as acquisitive as QuadraMed Corp. in the 1990s.

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