Vendor Notebook - IBM to buy National Interest Security Company

By Eric Wicklund
04:22 AM

Kofax plc, based in Irvine, Calif., has released version 2.0 of Kofax Express, an all-in-one scan-to-archive software package for image capture applications.

PEPID, an Evanston, Ill.-based developer of clinical decision-support information and technology, has released a Palm Pre application.

Verisk Health, Inc., based in Waltham, Mass., has announced that First Service Administrators, Inc., has used the company’s Explorer clinical analytics software solution to analyze and predict healthcare risk and has thus reduced its healthcare cost trend by 5 percent and emergency room use by 10 percent.

idOnDemand
, based in Pleasanton, Calif., has launched a PIV full lifecycle employee smartcard solution available as a software-as-a-service (SaaS).

Interactive Intelligence, based in Indianapolis, has announced that A-Med Health Care, a Huntington Beach, Calif.-based pharmacy and medical supply company, has deployed the company’s Customer Interaction Center IP communications software suite.

The MRO Corporation, a King of Prussia, Pa.-based provider of release-of-information, audit tracking and document management applications and services, has announced that DeKalb Medical in Decatur, Ga., and St. Luke’s Hospital and Health Network in Bethlehem, Pa., will; implement the company’s Audit Tracker Online solution.

Craneware, Inc., an Atlanta-based developer of automated revenue integrity solutions, has launched Supplies ChargeLink, a software solution designed to help hospitals manage and optimize reimbursement for chargeable supplies.

The RadarFind Corporation, a Morrisville, N.C.-based developer of real-time location system (RTLS) technology for healthcare providers, has introduced active RFID alarm capabilities with Sentry AV, a wall-mounted device that integrates with the company’s wireless sensor network to identify events that will trigger an audio and/or visual alarm. The alarm system is designed to help healthcare providers reduce loss, theft or damage to medical equipment.

PatientCentral Technologies, LLC, based in Houston, has released the Wellness ToolBox, a new self-health and wellness feature of MyHealthArchive.

MDdatacor, Inc., an Atlanta-based provider of healthcare quality management solutions for insurers and providers, has announced a new contract with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City to provide the technology that will support the Missouri-based insurer’s medical home pilot program.

NoMoreClipboard.com, based in Fort Wayne, Ind., has launched a new patient portal for physician groups. The new NMC-MD portal includes a PHR and added messaging functionality.

DrFirst of Rockville, Md., has announced a partnership with Rivers Computer Support of Rochester, N.Y., to provide its Rcopia e-prescribing functionality to practices using RCS’ panacea.net practice management system.

TCS Healthcare Technologies, an Auburn, Calif.-based developer of care management software applications, has announced that AvMed Health Plans of Miami has purchased the company’s Acuity Advanced Care platform.

NeoMatrix, Inc., of Irvine, Calif., has been awarded a technology agreement from Novation, the supply contracting company of VHA, Inc.,, the University HealthSystem Consortium and Provista, for the HALO Breast Pap Test, which includes the HALO console, cart, patient interface cassette and disposable sample collection cups.

Iatric Systems
, a provider of security and privacy software, has announced a partnership with the Transcendent Group, an assurance and management consulting group, to help healthcare organizations meet the privacy and security requirements of the Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act.

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