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Allscripts and Eclipsys are merging in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $1.3 billion. Glen Tullman, CEO of Allscripts, will be the CEO of the combined company. Phil Pead, President and CEO of Eclipsys, will become Chairman of the combined company and, “on a full-time basis, will focus on key client and strategic relationships, product and process integration, strategy and the company’s international business.”
GE has extended the purchasing options associated with its Stimulus Simplicity program — 0 percent payment terms and deferred payments until 2012 — to include new purchases of its Centricity Business solution suite. Stimulus Simplicity, launched in June 2009, is a combined offering of GE Healthcare and GE Capital focused on the EMR purchase for [...]
Novi, Mich.-based Trinity Health has purchased 1,200 “bundled” NextGen EHR and NextGen PM licenses. Trinity originally purchased 400 NextGen PM licenses for a portion of its employed providers in 2006. According to the organizations, the additional licenses will enable all employed providers in the network — comprised of 44 acute care hospitals, 379 outpatient facilities, [...]
Boston-based Caritas Christi Health Care has selected athenahealth’s network-based EHR service, athenaClinicals, for its owned physician network that currently employs over 500 medical providers. The owned physician network is currently live on athenahealth’s RCM service, athenaCollector. Caritas Christi also plans to offer athenahealth’s services to its affiliated physician network, which consists of an additional 1,200 [...]
Athens Regional Medical Center, a 375-bed regional referral center located in Athens, Ga., has selected Eclipsys PeakPractice EMR/PM solution. As a current user of Eclipsys’ integrated clinical system (Sunrise Enterprise), Athens Regional will use PeakPractice to link patient information with its network of physicians. Physician networks to be involved in the initiative include Athens Regional [...]
Ingenix is offering a package that includes interest-free financing, HIT services and performance guarantees. The program enables physicians to implement Ingenix CareTracker EHR with no out-of-pocket costs and no payments until 2011 when HITECH reimbursements begin. Qualifying U.S. physicians can receive an interest-free loan from Ingenix (underwritten by OptumHealth Bank) to license and implement CareTracker [...]
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