eClinicalWorks, based in Westborough, Mass., has announced that the Catholic Independent Practice Association of Buffalo, N.Y., has selected the company’s electronic medical record and practice management software for the Catholic Health System’s network of ambulatory care offices as well as select community physicians. The company will also work with the IPA to connect into HEALTHeLINK, the local regional health information organization.

Thomson Reuters, based in Ann Arbor, Mich., has announced the newest release of Clinical Xpert CareFocus, a clinical surveillance solution designed to enable hospitals to identify at-risk patients in real-time and respond immediately to improve clinical quality and reduce total cost of treatment. Among the first hospitals to use the technology is Bayfront Medical Center.

Trapeze Networks of Pleasanton, Calif., has announced new wireless condition monitoring capabilities for its ActiveAsset asset tracking and management application. The new features use built-in sensors on Newbury 
Wi-Fi asset tags to automatically measure temperatures of perishable items and other condition-sensitive assets.

Elsevier, a Philadelphia-based provider of healthcare and medical publishing and online solutions, has announced that Trinity Health of Novi, Mich., the nation’s fourth largest Catholic health system with 44 hospitals in eight states, will install seven of Elsevier’s online clinical decision support (CDS) solutions. The company has also launched MD Consult Mobile, allowing physicians to access medical content on their mobile devices.

MedAssets, Inc., an Atlanta-based group purchasing organization and developer of spend management and revenue cycle solutions, recently hosted more than 60 suppliers and 250 healthcare provider representatives at its eighth annual Technology and Innovation Forum in St. Louis.

API Healthcare, a Hartford, Wis.-based provider of human capital management solutions for healthcare, has announced a partnership with UK-based Logicalis to offer remote hosting services to its clients.

Seattle Information Systems has announced a reseller agreement with QualityMetric Incorporated, allowing SIS to incorporate the SF-36v2 and SF-12v2 Health Surveys into the company’s Prosk outcomes management software, which allows for automated patient data collection through touch-screen kiosks and tablets.

Vital Images, Inc., a Minneapolis-based provider of advanced visualization and analysis solutions, has announced a partnership with San Jose, Calif.-based Intel to improve clinical dataset load times on the new Intel server platform.

Alcatel-Lucent has joined with New Zealand-based telecommunications provider Gen-I and the Auckland District Health Board to launch New Zealand’s first trial of a remote patient monitoring system using mobile technology to monitor and manage chronic illness at home. The three-trial will focus on 20 heart disease patient selected by Auckland Hospital.

McKesson, headquartered in Atlanta, has announced that the Iowa Health System will be deploying its Horizon Medical Imaging picture archiving and communications system (PACS) at 34 metropolitan hospitals and clinics throughout Iowa. Also, Crittenton Hospital Medical Center in Rochester, Mich., is deploying McKesson’s Horizon Enterprise Revenue Management solution.

QHR Technologies, Inc., of Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, has signed a letter of intent to acquire the Clinicare Corporation, a Calgary-based developer of electronic medical records software.

The Financial Healthcare Systems Corporation (FHSCorp) of Denver has announced a partnership with Vecna Technologies of Cambridge, Mass., to integrate FHSCorp’s ClearQuote technology with Vecna’s QC Kiosk, adding patient estimation services to point-of-care and patient self-service registration kiosk functions.

The Authentidate Holding Company, a provider of health information exchange and workflow management services, has introduced an interface that allows Inscrybe Healthcare to be integrated with Definitive Homecare Solutions’ CPR+ information system.

The SmartPill Corporation of Buffalo, N.Y., has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the release of version 2.0 of the SmartPill GI Monitoring System for the evaluation of colonic transit time in patients with suspected chronic constipation.

Merge Healthcare, a Milwaukee based provider of medical imaging solutions, has announced that its Merge China business unit has signed a distribution agreement with PANGAEA Technology Limited, a Hong Kong-based distributor of CCG detectors, which are an economical alternative to digital detectors, for DR systems in the greater China area.

ZeOmega, a Frisco, Texas-based provider of care management software solutions and services, has announced a partnership with Eldorado Computing, Inc., a Phoenix, Ariz.-based provider of health benefit and claims management platforms, to offer an integrated care and benefits management solution that integrates ZeOmega’s Jiva care management software with Eldorado’s Javelina browser-based healthcare claims and benefit platform.