Xerox has announced its acquisition of Dallas-based Affiliated Computer Services. This merger will accelerate Xerox's growth in the expanding business process and document management market.



INFINITT North America, the Phillipsburg, NJ-based Web image and information management solution, and peerVue, of Sarasota, Fla., a provider of workflow, quality and communications solutions, announced that they have executed an integration agreement that will enable Infinitt PACS users to launch peerVue qiVue directly from the PACS workstation.

PatientSafe Solutions, Inc., a San Diego-based maker of patient safety products to help eliminate hospital-based medical errors, announced today that it has closed $30 million in Series B-1 financing. The financing was led by TPG Biotech, the leading science-based venture investment arm of the global private equity firm, TPG Capital.

Nuvon, Inc., Bay Area-based providers of biomedical device integration products, announced a partnership with Marlton, NJ's Virtua, a multi-hospital healthcare system, with an aim toward improving the patient experience by better using device connectivity in the clinical environment.

EMSystems, of Milwaukee, has announced that the state of Florida is using its EMTrack and EMResource to communicate and manage resources with healthcare officials to provide medical care to evacuees from the Haiti earthquake.

Ingram Micro, the Santa Ana, Calif.-based the technology sales, marketing and logistics company has announced a distribution relationship with Horsham, Penn.'s NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, which makes electronic health record (EHR) and practice management systems.

MEDHOST,  the Addison, Texas-based provider of leading EDIS and healthcare throughput solutions, has launched OpCenter, its new executive decision support software solution, which addresses inpatient flow and bed management issues by providing executives with reliable, real-time information for informed decisions.

Citrus Memorial Health System in Inverness, Fla., has chosen to upgrade its hospital information system to McKesson’s Paragon community HIS. As part of the agreement, McKesson will remotely host the new solution for the hospital.

San Francisco's endpoint Clinical, which makes integrated voice response (IVR) and integrated web response (IWR) systems, announced that PULSE, a fully configurable platform that allows users to design and deploy clinical trial integrated response technology (IRT) systems, has proven to save 40 percent on the development time of clinical trials.

MxSecure, the Scottsdale, Ariz.-based medical transcription services and EHR provider, has announced the launch of its new website, MxSecure.com. The upgraded site allows users to easily access MxSecure’s full product line, including MxTranscribe, the company’s digital medical transcription service, and its new EHR product, MxChart.
 
VelQuest Corporation, of Hopkinton, Mass., the developer of the SmartLab GMP Lab Execution System/ELN, and Clarkston Consulting of Durham, NC, a leading management and technology consulting firm, have announced a technology partnership that integrates the SmartLab platform directly to SAP Quality Modules without the need for a traditional Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS).

QuadraMed Corporation of Reston, Virginia, has announced that The Children's Center, a pediatric specialty hospital in Bethany, Oklahoma, has purchased its QCPR electronic health record solution. QCPR's functionality and flexibility will help clinicians increase the quality, safety and continuity of pediatric care.

Allscripts, of Chicago, has announced that NuHealth, the Long Island-based healthcare organization, will implement its practice management IT solutions across its network of hospitals and employed physicians, enhancing the quality of care, improving patient communications, and better managing the cost of care delivery.

AnyWare Group, the Toronto-based supplier of healthcare portals, has unveiled the latest release of the ROAM Patient Portal, an access solution that is used by hospitals, provincial healthcare organizations and doctors' offices for a wide range of applications including diabetes management, stroke prevention, smoking cessation and wellness initiatives.

Cardinal Health, of Dublin, Ohio, and GENASCIS, of Los Angeles, have announced a partnership to help ambulatory surgery centers improve operational efficiency and cost effectiveness by combining Cardinal Health’s supply chain management improvements with from Genascis's revenue cycle management services.    

GE Healthcare has introduced AssurePoint Services, a single, flexible platform to address today’s changing market needs. The new model consolidates GE Healthcare’s broad services offerings – enabling a flexible portfolio for helping improve the performance value of assets, operations, maintenance and clinical excellence. AssurePoint will also help optimize utilization and maintenance of diagnostic imaging equipment and clinical devices.

McKesson has announced the release of the latest and fastest versions of its Lytec electronic health record (EHR) and practice management solutions. The updated Lytec MD is a combined CCHIT-certified EHR and practice management system that features Bright Note Technology, a proprietary chart automation function. It also features Lytec Connect, designed to enable the secure electronic delivery of patient data across care settings.

AssistMed, Inc. of Beverly Hills, announced that it has executed an agreement with US Bioservices, a business unit of Valley Forge, Penn.'s AmerisourceBergen Specialty Group, to implement AssistMed's Patient Adherence and Disease Management Solutions.

Wolters Kluwer Health, of the Netherlands, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced that it has released an iPhone/iPod touch optimized mobile website for its industry leading drug information reference, Facts & Comparisons eAnswers. The site, Facts & Comparisons Mobile, was developed in response to customer demand for convenient access to drug information via smart phones.

Akron General Health System has announced a strategic agreement with McKesson, purchasing its Practice Partner, a fully integrated EHR/practice management system that expands the hospital’s ongoing initiative to boost patient safety, improve quality and enhance care coordination among healthcare providers in northeast Ohio.