DocuSys, Inc., a Mobile, Ala.-based provider of anesthesia information management systems (AIMS) and digital drug management systems, is partnering with the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine to establish a Center for Information Technology within the Center for Anesthesia Patient Safety and Public Policy at the Philadelphia-based school.

Emageon Inc. launched its new RadSuite Express solution for the fast growing small to mid-sized hospital and clinic market. With this turn- key solution, facilities producing less than 80,000 radiology studies a year will now be able to install and start using a top-ranked PACS in days, Emageon executives say.

Salt Lake City, Utah-based RemedyMD, a developer of electronic health record software, has added three new models to the firm’s bariatric surgery software application. The modules handle psychological assessment, management of post-operative nutrition and inventory and invoicing of food product, supplements, vitamins and medications.

The Beryl Companies has announced that Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in Santa Clarita, Calif., has begun using the company’s outsourced call center services, which provide physician referral services and class/event registrations over the telephone and online.

BLU-MED Response Systems of Kirkland, Wash., which provides turn-key, portable, shelter-based solutions for disaster medical surge facilities, has been awarded a $1.1 million contract from the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services to provide portable hospital units and support systems for the county’s Emergency Medical Services Agency.

San Francisco-based Cardiff has announced the immediate availability of LiquidOffice Version 5.0, which brings enterprise-class business process management capabilities to the mobile professional via a Blackberry smartphone.

Awarix, a Birmingham, Ala.-based developer of enterprise patient care visibility systems via electronic “whiteboards,” has announced that Catholic Healthcare Partners, a 29-hospital integrated delivery network based in Cincinnati, will be implementing the system at four hospitals – St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Toledo, Ohio, Mercy Fairfield in Cincinnati and two St. Mary’s facilities in Knoxville, Tenn.

Misys Healthcare of Raleigh, N.C. has announced that the Upper Ohio Valley Individual Practice Association, a network of nearly 300 physicians, has selected Misys EMR and Misys Tiger.

Atlanta-based MDdatacor, Inc., a healthcare information technology company that focuses on the collection and analysis of patient medical records, has announced that it will begin work on a pilot project with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts to provide treating physicians with reports that identify patients whose current treatment does not achieve published clinical guidelines.

The Nightingale Informatix Corporation, a Markham, Ontario, Canada-based application service provider of electronic medical record and practice management solutions, has announced agreements to provide its EMR and practice management solutions to Alberta’s Integrative Medical Institute of Canada Health Centres, a healthcare region in Saskatchewan and three regional Ontario Family Health Teams.

Healthcare Management Systems, Inc. of Nashville, Tenn. has announced that Fayette County Memorial Hospital in Washington Court House, Ohio has selected the company to supply an integrated hospital information system of clinical and financial software. FCMH will also be using Sequel, eForms and MIMIX.

Los Angeles-based MedInformatix has designed and implemented a new electronic Radiology Information System (RIS) for U.S. Imaging, one of the largest radiologist groups in Texas. The system was launched “live” on June 4.

IMS Health of Norwalk, Conn. says it has entered into a strategic alliance with The General Practice Research Database (GPRD) group of the Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency in the United Kingdom. The merger brings together the GPRD group’s database of UK-based anonymized longitudinal medical records from primary care and IMS Disease Analyzer.

iCAD, Inc., a Nashua, N.H.-based provider of computer-aided detection (CAD) solutions, has signed a development and distribution agreement with Agfa. Through the agreement, iCAD’s SecondLook Digital CAD solution will be available for Agfa’s direct digital mammography systems, and iCAD will work to develop a SecondLook Digital solution customized for Agfa’s other mammography systems.

Ascendant Systems of Redwood City, Calif., a subsidiary of Research in Motion and provider of enterprise voice mobility solutions, has announced the deployment of the Ascendant Voice Mobility Suite at Lahey Clinic Medical Center in Burlington and Peabody, Mass.

Nuesoft Technologies of Atlanta has signed an agreement with 3M Health Information Systems to offer coding compliance editing capabilities and medical necessity validation as added functions to its NueMD and Nuesoft Xpress practice management software applications.

Sage Software Healthcare of Tampa, Fla. has announced that Old Hook Medical Associates, a family practice in Emerson, N.J., recently used Intergy EHR by Sage to proactively identify and notify patients potentially at risk of coronary problems possibly resulting from the use of the drug Avandia.

Noteworthy Medical Systems of Rockville, Md., has announced a partnership with DrFirst, Inc. to fully integrate NoteworthyEHR with DrFirst’s Rcopia e-prescription technology.

NeoTool, of Planto, Texas, has announced the release of NeoIntegrate 3.1, a healthcare interface engine that allows for connections to electronic medical and health record systems; hospital, laboratory and radiology information systems; and other ancillary and laboratory systems.

AMICAS, Inc. of Boston has announced that Cape Radiology Group of Cape Girardeau, Mo., has chosen the company’s Vision Series PACS, Vision Series RIS, Vision Series Document Management and Vision Reach products.

Agfa Healthcare has unveiled the latest version of its picture archiving and communications system (PACS) and radiology information solution (RIS), called IMPAX. Agfa has signed an agreement with Vocada to use Vocada’s Veriphy product to provide integrated solutions through IMPAX for critical test result management. Also, Agfa has announced that Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers of Morris, Ill. has installed the company’s integrated radiology and cardiology solution, while the UNC Health Care Department at the University of North Carolina has begun installing Agfa’s RIS.

Fortinet, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions, has introduced two new products to its FortiGate 3000 Series of multi-threat security appliances: FortiGate 3810A and FortiGate 3016B.

Astoria Software of San Mateo, Calif. and Idiom Technologies of Waltham, Mass. have announced a joint integration and marketing agreement in which the two companies will use Web 2.0 technologies to integrate Astoria OnDemand, the company’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution for structured content management, with Idiom WordServer On-Demand, that company’s online globalization management system.

Dynamic Instruments of San Diego has introduced its DI Reliant Hybrid VoIP Recorder, featuring a single-chassis design for multi-protocol recordings of VoIP, analog, digital PBX and T1/E1 communications. The plug-and-play, one-box, one-database and one-interface solution is designed for the several industries, including healthcare.

The Anoto Group, a Swedish-based maker of digital pen and paper technology with an office in Massachusetts, has launched the Anoto Forms Solution, a ready-made hardware and software package that will enable DPP applications to be rolled out more quickly and easily.

Burlington, Mass.-based eWebHealth, the technology division of medical record vendor ChartOne, Inc., has announced a partnership with Iatric Systems, a MEDITECH integration company. Under terms of the contract, eWebHealth’s electronic medical record workflow technology will be integrated into the systems at MEDITECH-enabled hospitals.

NoMoreClipboard.com, a Fort Wayne, Ind.-based provider of online, patient-controlled personal health management systems, has announced that it has been certified by the CAQH Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange. Certification was approved after NMC demonstrated that its PHR could interoperate with participating health plans and healthcare providers.

Compliance 360, Inc., an Atlanta-based provider of governance, risk and compliance management software, has announced that the Jackson Health System of south Florida has begun implementing the company’s solutions to automate manual operational processes and improve enterprise risk management capability.

The Certification Commission for Healthcare Technology (CCHIT) has announced that Goshen, N.Y.-based Waiting Room Solutions’ EMR & Practice Management Solution Version 3.0 is certified and meets CCHIT ambulatory electronic health record criteria for 2006.

ClearCount Medical Solutions of Pittsburgh has announced that its SmartSponge System, which used RFID technology to keep track of surgical sponges and towels during surgical procedures, has received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration.

NetScout Systems Inc. of Westford, Mass. has announced that Denver Health is using the nGenius Performance Management Solution with an eye toward enabling streaming video and ensuring access to critical applications such as electronic medical records (EMRs) and picture archiving and communications systems (PACS).

Spare Backup, Inc. of Palm Desert, Calif. has made its software available for use by healthcare providers needing a remote data backup and recovery system that meets HIPAA requirements.

4Connections of Parsippany, N.J. has announced that it has successfully deployed a dark fiber optic ring for the Meridian Health System of central New Jersey.

MEDSEEK, a Phoenix, Ariz.-based provider of enterprise e-health solutions, has announced that Novi, Mich.-based Trinity Health, the nation’s 4th largest Catholic health system, has selected the company to provide a corporate eHealth plan.

Cielo MedSolutions of Ann Arbor, Mich. has entered into an affiliate marketing partnership with Medical Data Solutions of Midland, Mich. Under terms of the agreement, MDS will qualify and develop sales leads for Cielo’s line of chronic condition care management software and services.

The York Telecom Corporation of Eatontown, N.J. and LiveData, Inc. of Cambridge, Mass. have joined forces to create the “Visually Integrated Operating Room,” or VIOR, which consists of the LiveData OR-Dashboard, one or more additional displays for video and images and associated audio-visual equipment, cameras and infrastructure needed to display the data and images.

The Bluestream Corp., a Vancouver, Canada-based provider of XML content solutions, has unveiled XDocs 1.1, an XML-based, single-source content management system that enables organizations to publish content to multiple channels.

Redwood City, Calif.-based AeroScout has announced a pilot project with Hospital St. Louis, one of Luxembourg’s largest hospitals, to track patients, staff and hospital assets. The primary purpose of the installation is to provide protection to high-risk dementia patients.

MicroStrategy Incorporated, a McLean, Va.-based provider of business intelligence software, has announced that The Advisory Board Company, a worldwide healthcare research and professional services firm serving more than 2,600 hospitals and health systems, has selected the company to provide its members with enhanced visibility into financial, operational and clinical performance.

Carestream Health of Rochester, N.Y. has announced that it is taking orders for its fully featured multi-modality breast imaging workstation, the Kodak Carestream Mammography Workstation. The product, which features integration of Confirma Carestream software for breast MRI exams and Cedara B-CAD software for breast ultrasound exams, will be available by the end of June.

Passlogix, Inc. has added Atlanta-based Tiburon Enterprises, which specializes in information security services, to its Platinum Partner network. Passlogix’s v-GO Sign-on Platform for enterprise single sign-on (ESSO) will serve as the ESSO solution for Tiburon’s suite of identity management services, a cornerstone of its offerings to the healthcare sector, among others.

VISICU, Inc. of Baltimore, Md. has announced that Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa and Mercy Medical Center Sioux City have signed an agreement to implement the first eICU programs in Iowa.

Hicks Holdings LLC, a Dallas-based private investment enterprise, has acquired a 40 percent stake in SafeMed, Inc., a San Diego-based provider of clinical decision support systems.

Sparta Systems, Inc. of Holmdel, N.J. has announced that Memorial Blood Centers has implemented TrackWise, a Web-based management software tool that will allow Memorial to track and trend events and enhance the quality process is such areas as donor collections, hospital services and laboratory services, among others.

NaviSite, Inc., an Andover, Mass.-based provider of application solutions, hosting and content delivery services, has announced that MaineGeneral Health has chosen the company to deploy a financial and materials management system using Oracle’s PeopleSoft applications.

PhoneDOCTORx, which provides nursing home residents with immediate access to physicians by supplementing on-site visits with teleconferences, has moved its corporate headquarters to Fairhaven, Mass.

The Eclipsys Corporation of Boca Raton, Fla. has announced that Bethesda Memorial Hospital in Boynton Beach, Fla. has chosen to deploy its Sunrise Critical Care solution.