API Healthcare, a Hartford, Wis.-based provider of human capital management solutions for healthcare providers, has signed contracts with the following healthcare organizations: Seattle Children’s Hospital, Overlake Hospital Medical Center in Bellevue, Wash., North Mississippi Health Services in Tupelo, Miss., Lodi Memorial Hospital in Lodi, Calif., King’s Daughters Medical Center in Ashland, Ky., Kadlec Medical Center in Richland, Wash., and the Eastern Connecticut Health Network in Manchester, Conn.

The InterSystems Corporation of Cambridge, Mass., has announced new reseller agreements with Management Information Tools, Inc. (MITS) of Seattle and LifePoint Informatics of Glen Rock, N.J.

The Wellsoft Corporation of Somerset, N.J., is making available H1N1 documentation templates, order sets/panels and discharge instruction sheets for its Emergency Department Information System (EDIS) and Discharge Instruction (DI) clients.

Gigabit, a Raleigh, N.C.-based developer of Smartphone applications, has launched HealthSync, an iPhone application that offers comprehensive electronic medical records management, maintenance and tracking for individuals and families.

Merge Healthcare of Milwaukee and MEDRAD, a Pittsburgh-based provider of medical devices and services for diagnostic imaging, have announced an expansion of their European Union Distribution Agreement to allow MEDRAD to distribute Merge’s CADstream dedicated CAD system for MRI uses in France, the UK, Germany and Italy. The company has also announced a settlement with the federal Securities Exchange Commission over a multi-year investigation into the conduct of two former company executives and the circumstances which led to a restatement in 2006 of the company’s 2002-05 financial statements. The SEC is not charging the company with fraud or assessing any penalties.

Initiate Systems, a Chicago-based developer of data management solutions for information sharing and data quality, has acquired Accenx Technologies, Inc., an Irvine, Calif.-based provider of health information exchange solutions.

GE Healthcare and First DataBank International have announced a partnership to extend GE’s Centricity Enterprise technology to hospitals in the Middle East to give healthcare providers access to electronic dispensing and prescribing functions, with clinical decision support enabled by the integration of FDB International’s drug knowledge base.

Telehealth Services of Raleigh, N.C., has become a strategic partner reseller of GE Healthcare Monitoring Solutions’ nurse call and communications systems, including the Telligence platform.

A.D.A.M., Inc., an Atlanta-based developer of consumer health information and benefits technology solutions, has announced a partnership with Canopy Financial, a San Francisco-based provider of banking technology solutions, to integrate A.D.A.M.’s health and wellness content into Canopy’s HealthDirect consumer-directed healthcare (CDH) platform.

Philips Healthcare has signed an eight-year combined iSite PACS replacement and Xcelera deal to meet radiology and cardiology image management needs at Lakeland Regional Medical Center, a 851-bed hospital serving central Florida.

The Eclipsys Corporation of Atlanta has announced that North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo, Miss., will deploy the Eclipsys Sunrise Enterprise suite of solutions.

MedPlus, the Cincinnati-based healthcare information technology subsidiary of Quest Diagnostics, has released version 5.5 of ChartMaxx, an upgraded document management and imaging solution that includes an optional RAC Manager.

Mimosa Systems, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based developer of e-mail archiving, file archiving and SharePoint archiving solutions, has announced that South Jersey Healthcare will deploy the company’s NearPoint archiving solution.

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