Sentillion, based in Andover, Mass., has unveiled Tap2, a patent-pending, advanced authentication capability designed to give healthcare providers instant access to their primary clinical application with the tap of a passive proximity badge. The solution currently provides support for Cerner, Eclipsys, Epic, McKesson and MEDITECH applications. In addition, the company has released Vergence Wizard, a next-generation tool for generating application interfaces to enable single sign-on and context management for clinical and business applications.

Craneware, an Orlando, Fla.-based provider of financial performance solutions for healthcare providers, has signed an agreement with Premier Purchasing Partners, LP, the group purchasing unit of Premier, Inc., to offer performance software and services to its more than 2,100 member and client hospitals and more than 54,000 other healthcare providers.

Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions of Chicago has announced that Scripps Health has selected the Allscripts Enterprise Electronic Health Record to automate electronic prescription orders, lost charge capture and clinical quality solutions for nearly 550 physicians in 19 San Diego County, Calif.-based outpatient clinics. Also, the company has announced that the Ottawa Regional Hospital and Healthcare Center in Ottawa, Ill., has selected a suite of Allscripts solutions.

Longitude Health, based in New Jersey, in association with the Georgia Department of Human Resources Division of Public Health, has launched MyHealthVillage, on online health and wellness resource to help identify the major risk factors for chronic conditions, in eight counties in Georgia.

Wolters Kluwer Health of Minneapolis has unveiled ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, an order set development solution that combines the company's technology platform with UpToDate's clinical decision support content.

athenahealth, Inc., of Watertown, Mass., has launched a new Clinical Intelligence Team (CIT) as part of its electronic health record and practice management services platform, called athenaNet. This new service team will look to deliver the maximum allowable stimulus benefits for providers and ensure that the athenaClinicals EHR is continuously updated and compliant with the HITECH Act reporting requirements, PQRI and other national P4P programs.

Orion Health, Inc., has launched Concerto Clinical Documentation, a solution designed to help healthcare workers automatically capture clinical notes for a more complete electronic health record through the Concerto Portal. The company has also launched Concerto Whiteboard, a real-time patient tracking system designed to provide healthcare workers with a single view of patient information.

The GCX Corporation of Petaluma, Calif., has launched the VHRC Series cart, a mobile cart designed to give healthcare providers a flexible array of configurations for healthcare devices.

TeraMedica Healthcare Technology, based in Milwaukee, has launched version 5.0 of its Evercore Clinical Enterprise Suite, as well as Smartstore-Ultrastream, a storage optimization protocol, and the Univision-Imageport enterprise viewer portal. The company has also announced a partnership with Compressus, Inc., to integrate TeraMedica's Evercore Clinical Enterprise Suite with Compressus' MEDxConnect product suite, allowing physicians and patients alike to access medical images and other digital content.

McKesson's RelayHealth has announced that John Muir Health of northern California and Hill Physicians Medical Group, one of the nation's largest independent Physician groups, are sharing clinical data through the company's results management services.

American Well has announced plans to launch a virtual health clinic for the state of Minnesota in conjunction with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota.

Orchestrate Healthcare, based in Greenwood Village, Colo., is partnering with SunGard Availability Services of Wayne, Pa., to help hospitals develop and execute cost-effective business continuity plans that address the requirement to access EMR data in the event of an IT systems outage to safeguard quality of care.

SunGard Availability Services of Wayne, Pa., has unveiled the Living Disaster Recovery Planning Systems for Hospitals (LDRPS), designed to address the business continuity requirements of hospitals.

Beacon Partners of Weymouth, Mass., has been awarded a multi-year contract from Alberta Health and Wellness, the government health program in Alberta, Canada, to migrate data from 10 legacy EMR systems to three Alberta EMR systems selected by the AHW through a request for proposal procurement process.

The Informatics Corporation of America, based in Nashville, Tenn., has unveiled enhanced functions for its CareAlign solution to serve the health information technology needs of HIEs, RHIOs and hospital systems.

AMICAS, based in Boston, has completed its merger with Emageon. The company has also announced the general availability of AMICAS PACS version 6.0.

Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (ACS) of Dallas has announced a seven-year, $67 million contract to provide strategic consulting and outsourced services to Marin General Hospital in California. ACS will implement an enterprise-wide information and EMR system and a full-scale outsourcing of the hospital's IT department and provide the hospital's business office with revenue cycle services.

BridgeForward Software, based in Middleton, Mass., has announced the general release of Viaduct, a graphical interoperability platform that SOA-enables legacy applications.

Unotron, a Dallas-based developer of washable computer keyboards, has integrated Micomen Hall sensor technology into its new line of SoftKey washable keyboards and will do the same with upcoming products.

INFINITT North America, a Phillipsburg, N.J.-based provider of Web-based RIS, PACS and advanced visualization solutions, has launched an off-site Disaster Recovery (DR) service for all of the company's North American customers.

Information Builders, a New York-based developer of business intelligence solutions, has unveiled the first module of its Integrated Health Intelligence platform, a new Clinical Management and Reporting Analytics (CMRA) application.

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