Vendor Notebook - Navicure releases version 4.0
Navicure, an Atlanta-based provider of Web-based accounts receivable management solutions for physician practices, has released Navicure 4.0, with enhancements designed to improve practice staff efficiency and productivity.
Agfa Healthcare has announced an agreement with Meridian Technique, Ltd. of Southampton, England to integrate Meridian's OrthoView orthopaedic digital planning solution into Agfa Healthcare's IMPAX for Orthopaedics solution.
Allscripts, based in Chicago, has announced an agreement with eRx Network, LLC, a Fort Worth, Texas-based provider of electronic services for retail pharmacies, to provide connectivity between eRx Network's eRx Pad pharmacy communication network and Allscripts electronic prescribing solutions.
MEDecision has announced that its Alineo collaborative healthcare management technology platform has been licensed to DC Chartered Health Plan, Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based Medicaid provider with more than 75,000 members.
Perot Systems of Plano, Texas agreed to provide information technology and business process services to support the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' Health Insurance Connector Authority (Health Connector), the state's program to assist low-income residents with choosing health coverage.
Wolters Kluwer Health of Minneapolis and UnBound Medicine of Charlottesville, Va. have announced that Mobile Clin-eguide, a version of Wolters Kluwer's online clinical decision support tool powered by the UnBound Platform, is now available to IP-authenticated Clin-eguide subscribers for "on the go" and point-of-care use on Palm OS, Windows Mobile, Blackberry and iPhone devices.
Siemens Healthcare, based in Malvern, Pa., and the NCR Corporation of Dayton, Ohio have announced a collaboration to offer NCR MediKiosk solutions to the Siemens customer base in North America.
Hoana Medical, Inc. of Honolulu has announced a partnership with a large healthcare system in Pennsylvania, Veterans Administration hospitals in Florida and Nebraska and the U.S. Army to improve patient safety in acute-care hospitals through use of the company's LifeBed Patient Vigilance System, which identifies patients as they deteriorate and immediately notifies hospital nursing staff.
Plasmon, a Broomfield, Colo.-based provider of archiving systems, has announced that Health Management Associates, Inc. has selected the company as its archival storage provider and plans to implement Plasmon solutions in many of its 57 acute-care hospitals.