Top News
Continua Health Alliance, mHealth Summit, and HIMSS launch the Personal Connected Health Alliance to represent the consumer voice in personal connected health to ensure that technologies are user-friendly, secure, and can easily collect, display, and relay personal health data.
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Upcoming Webinars
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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock
AdverseEvents, a healthcare informatics company focused on drug safety and side effects, closes $2 million in Series A financing.
Informedika changes its name to Health Gorilla.
Lexmark reports that revenues for its Perceptive Software division grew 38 percent in the first quarter.
Sales
Evangelical Community Hospital (PA) selects dbtech’s eFolder solution for enterprise content management.
Griffin Hospital (PA) will implement athenaCoordinator Enterprise.
UMass Memorial Health Care (MA) will integrate Luminat’s end-of-life directives platform into its EHR.
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital (UK) selects Summit Healthcare’s interface engine technology.
Missouri Baptist Medical Center will deploy the Vocera Communication System.
People
EHR/PM provider Pulse Systems appoints Richard Ungaro (RU Investment) SVP of operations.
NoteSwift hires Stan Swiniarski (Nuance) as VP of products and Art Nicholas (Nova Dynamics) as VP of sales and business development.
MediTract, a provider of automated contract management solutions, appoints Ed Caldwell (Emdeon) SVP of sales and marketing.
CMS Principal Deputy Administrator Jonathan Blum, the administration’s top Medicare official, will resign effective May 16.
