Merge Healthcare, based in Milwaukee, has announced the release of Cedara ProPlanner 3.1, a digital orthopedic solution that integrates joint arthroscopy, trauma and deformity correction into existing applications like PACS or EMRs.

Medversant Technologies of Los Angeles has been notified that its patent application directed to key features of its Encompass platform, including AutoVerifi technology, has been granted a Notice of Allowance from the U.S. Parent and Trademark Office. Encompass is a Web-based platform managing background and quality information relating to healthcare providers, including physicians, dentists, nurses, therapists, aides and other healthcare workers.

Siemens Healthcare, based in Malvern, Pa., has announced that the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., has chosen to implement Soarian Financials, while Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital Medical Center in Plattsburg, N.Y. is implementing Soarian Clinicals, Soarian Emergency Department, Soarian Device Connect and other surround applications and Franklin Medical Center in Winnsboro, La., has signed a 10-year contract that includes implementing MedSeries4 General Financials, Patient Accounting, Soarian Clinicals and several other solutions.

Dialog Medical, an Atlanta-based provider of informed consent and patient education systems for hospitals and physician practices, has announced a contract extension for its iMedConsent application with St. Luke's Episcopal Health System, with installation at the system's newly constructed St. Luke's Sugar Land Hospital in Sugar Land, Texas.

Medical Present Value, Inc., (MPV) of Austin, Texas, has announced that Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc., of Milwaukee, Hendrick Medical Center in Abilene, Texas, and the Covenant Medical Group of Lubbock, Texas, have contracted to implement MPV Eligibility for real-time verification of patient eligibility and insurance coverage throughout the billing process.

Innovation, the Johnson City, N.Y.-based developers of PharmASSIST pharmacy automation solutions, has announced that Jersey Shore University Medical Center, a member of the Meridian Health network, has implemented PharmASSIST Symphony+ to automate its outpatient pharmacy in Neptune, N.J.

e-MDs, based in Austin, Texas, has announced that the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology has certified Solution Series Version 6.3 as a CCHIT-certified 08 Ambulatory HER, additionally certified for child health and cardiovascular medicine.