SourceMedical, based in Birmingham, Ala., has announced a partnership with Encircle Healthcare to offer SourceMedical’s SourcePlus Eligibility automated insurance verification solution to ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs).

HCI, a Cincinnati-based provider of healthcare-grade televisions and patient infotainment systems, has added the 22-inch Internet Protocol television (IPTV), 22-inch digital television and 22-inch digital television with built-in DVD player to its line of LCD televisions for healthcare settings.

The Eastlake Trade Corporation, an independent Sage ERP consultancy, is partnering with V1 Document Management, a document management and imaging company, to allow Eastlake to offer its Sage customers access to V1’s full product range for the electronic creation, deliver, authorization, management and storage of documents.

RelayHealth of Atlanta, the connectivity subsidiary of McKesson, has announced that MVP Health Care, a Schenectady, N.Y.-based health insurer, will begin reimbursing its more than 22,000 physicians who use RelayHealth’s webVisit consultation service.

Vangent, Inc., of Arlington, Va., has launched an open-source software tool called Health Information Exchange Open Source, making possible the secure exchange of health information from multiple and disparate system and data sources.

Epocrates, a San Mateo, Calif.-based provider of clinical information and decision support tools for healthcare professionals, has announced that its Epocrates Essentials clinical software suite is now available for BlackBerry smartphones from Research In Motion. In addition, the company has announced the expansion of its Mobile Resource Centers, a one-stop disease-specific information resource for clinicians.

Sequel Systems, based in Melville, N.Y., has announced the general availability of the SequelMed Patient Portal, a Web-based tool designed to improve communications between physicians and their patients.

Compliance 360, an Atlanta-based provider of software-as-a-service solutions for enterprise governance, risk management and compliance, has announced the availability of the Compliance 360 HITECH Privacy Breach Management Solution, a solution designed to be used by healthcare providers and health insurance companies as their system of record for managing suspected privacy breaches, facilitating investigations, completing timely notifications of affected parties and maintaining an audit-ready state as required by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act.

Practice Fusion, a San Francisco-based provider of Web-based electronic health records for physicians, has implemented a new tool that allows physicians to immediately and accurately identify all Tier 1 candidates for H1N1 vaccination, using criteria published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Agfa HealthCare has announced that its DX-S computed radiography system has been selected for the Premier healthcare alliance’s first Innovation Celebration.

SRS Software, based in Montvale, N.J., has announced that the University Children’s Eye Center in East Brunswick, N.J., has selected the company’s hybrid EMR.

SCC Soft Computer, a Clearwater, Fla.-based developer of laboratory information systems, has been awarded funding from the state of Florida’s Incumbent Worker Training (IWT) American recovery Act grant to use toward the company’s employee training program.

Extension, Inc., based in Fort Wayne, Ind., has announced the Boice Enterprises has been certified by the company to deliver healthcare appliance-based software solutions that marry clinical systems with Cisco’s Unified Communications network to medical practices in Indiana and Kentucky.

Direct Recruiters, Inc., of Solon, Ohio, an executive search firm specializing in healthcare automation, is partnering with SafeGuard Background Screening and PRADCO, Management Psychologists to Behavior and Industry.