Standard Register, a Dayton, Ohio-based provider of document services and workflow automation solutions, is partnering with the Digicon Corporation, a Herndon, Va.-based provider of IT services, to enable Digicon to market Standard Register’s SMARTworks Clinical Enterprise and related solutions and services for enhancing patient safety, improving efficiency and reducing costs.

Radianse, an Andover, Mass.-based provider of real-time location systems (RTLS) for healthcare settings, has launched a line of active-RFID multi-use healthcare tracking tags. Small, sealed and powered by a one-year battery, the tags are expected to cost between 10 cents and 40 cents per use for patient tracking.

Quantros, a San Francisco-based software and services provider for the healthcare industry, has announced an agreement with Chicago-based Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions to integrate the Quantros line of safety and risk management, accreditation, compliance and performance improvement applications in the Allscripts line of care management solutions.

GE Healthcare of Barrington, Ill., has announced two technology agreements to expand third-party application integration for Centricity PACS through Open Desktop, an enterprise-wide single access point for application and specialty tools integration. The agreements are with peerVue, Inc., a provider of regulatory, quality and communications solutions for clinical specialties that rely on diagnostic imaging, and Meridian Technique Ltd., makers of the OrthoView digital pre-operative planning solution.

Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions of Chicago has launched Allscripts professional EHR 9.0, designed for small and medium-sized physician groups, and Allscripts Remote for Blackberry. In addition, the company has announced that the Community Memorial Health System in Ventura, Calif., has selected the Allscripts Electronic Health Record and Practice Management solution, as well as Allscripts Revenue Cycle Management, for its 150 physicians.

The McKesson Corporation of Atlanta has unveiled PROmanager-Rx, a new solution designed to enable hospitals to fully automate the dispensing of tablets, capsules and other oral solid medications that come pre-packaged from drug manufacturers in unit-dose, bar-coded form.

Royal Philips Electronics has announced that its Baltimore-based VISICU subsidiary has launched the eICU Sepsis Management Program, a new clinical program that expands the value of the Philips VISICU eICU Program by enabling users to enhance sepsis identification and intervention through automation and standardization. Also, Philips has signed an eight-year iSite PACS replacement contract with the Memorial Healthcare System of Florida.

The QuadraMed Corporation, a Reston, Va.-based provider of revenue cycle management solutions, has agreed to be acquired by Francisco Partners, a San Francisco-based private equity firm. In addition, the company has announced that the Department of Veterans Affairs has renewed its annual Task Order contract under its existing Blanket Purchase Agreement for the QuadraMed Encoder Product Suite and related training services, at a value of approximately $24 million.

Microsoft, based in Redmond, Wash., has announced plans to acquire Sentillion, Inc., an Andover, Mass.-based developer of context management and single sign-on solutions for healthcare providers, and will integrate Sentillion products with its Amalga Unified Intelligence System (UIS) platform.

The Medsphere Systems Corporation of San Diego has announced that Kern Medical Center in Bakersfield, Calif., will deploy the company’s OpenVista electronic health record.

Perceptive Software, based in Shawnee, Kan., has launched InContext, an online magazine devoted to exploring enterprise content management.

Alpha II, a Tallahassee, Fla.-based developer of healthcare coding, compliance and reimbursement solutions, has announced that Healthpac Computer Systems, Inc., a Savannah, Ga.-based provider of healthcare billing software and EMR solutions, will include Alpha II’s ClaimStaker claims scrubber application to its customer base, which includes radiology, cardiology, neurology and other office-based healthcare providers.

Aerohive Networks, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based developer of cooperative control wireless LAN architecture, has announced that Riverside Health Care Systems has selected the company’s WLAN for its four healthcare facilities in Westchester County, N.Y.

Definiens, a Munich, Germany-based developer of enterprise image intelligence solutions with an office in Parsippany, N.J., has announced a partnership with Visage Imaging, Inc., of Andover, Mass., to develop advanced oncology solutions for the clinical and preclinical imaging domain. Under the partnership, Definien will incorporate the Visage CE enterprise visualization application into its LymphExpert version 2.0 software for lesion analysis.

The Sig-Tec Corporation, a Chanhassen, Minn.-based developer of biometrics-based enterprise identity management software, has changed the name of the company to Indigo Identityware. The company has also closed a substantial round of investment and announced the addition of John L. Woodward as COO and president.