Vendor Notebook: Affiliated Computer Services to acquire CredenceHealth
Affiliated Computer Services of Dallas, a subsidiary of Xerox, has announced plans to acquire CredenceHealth, a Nashville, Tenn.-based provider of software that captures and analyzes patient data to assist healthcare providers and health plans in improving quality of care and compliance with meaningful use regulations. The deal will enable ACS to integrate CredenceHealth’s clinical surveillance tools with the suite of managed care solutions under the Midas software brand to create Midas+ Live.
Pinstripe, Inc., a Brookfield, Wis.-based developer of talent acquisition and management solutions for healthcare and other fields, has contracted with Montage Talent, a Delafield, Wis.-based developer of video interviewing solutions, to provide enterprise video viewing services to the Pinstripe client base.
AccentCare, a national provider of home healthcare services, has announced plans to move corporate headquarters from Irvine, Calif., to Dallas.
MedAssurant, a provider of data-driven healthcare solutions, has announced a partnership with Healthfirst, Inc., a provider of managed care services for Medicare and Medicaid programs in New Jersey and New York. Healthfirst will use the company’s data analytics solutions to help improve clinical outcomes and financial performance in its Medicare and Medicaid populations.
The CPM Marketing Group, a Madison, Wis.-based developer of customer relationship management marketing solutions for the healthcare industry, has announced partnerships with website developers Geonetric and MedTouch to use the company’s analytics to personalize the online experience for visitors to healthcare websites.
Ascent, a Phoenix, Ariz.-based division of the Stryker Corporation, has unveiled a calculator on its website that allows healthcare organizations to estimate the cost savings and waste reduction potential for a hospital if it focuses on reprocessing as a best practice.
Novation, an Irving, Texas-based supply contracting company serving members of VHA, the University HealthSystem Consortium and Provista, has awarded agreements to Briggs Medical Service of West Des Moines, Iowa, and Medline Industries of Mundelein, Ill., for hand-held diagnostic tools, specifically sphygmomanometers.
Medical Management Professionals, Inc., an Atlanta-based provider of billing and practice management services to anesthesiology practices, has been awarded an exclusive coding contract with the UT Health Service Center in San Antonio, Texas.
RAM Technologies, Inc., a Fort Washington, Pa.-based developer of enterprise-wide healthcare administration solutions, has released version 10.5 of its HEALTHsuite solution, designed for health plans.
GENASCIS, a Los Angeles-based provider of billing, revenue cycle management and data analytics solutions for the ASC market, has announced the availability of MEDIBIS Mobile, a mobile dashboard app for Apple, Android and Windows mobile devices.
Health Market Science, a King of Prussia, Pa.-based provider of healthcare provider data and solutions, has enhanced its Provider MasterFile with additional information on hospitals and facility characteristics, providing information on more than 7,000 hospitals, 52,000 extended care and skilled nursing facilities, 250,000 group organizations, clinics and labs and more than 1.5 million affiliated providers.
Avnet Technology Solutions of Tempe, Ariz., has announced an agreement with Lincor Solutions to distribute Lincor’s MEDIVista hospital point-of-care clinical access and entertainment system through its HealthPath practice.
