Click4Care™, an award-winning software company providing its care management platform to enable high quality healthcare at reduced overall cost, today announced that FirstCare Health Plans of Austin, Texas, has selected Click4Care's Care Management Platform for successful population management. FirstCare will use the Click4Care platform to make real-time, transparent information available to providers, care managers and members, as they work together to manage population health and wellness.

Orion Health, the leader in health information exchange (HIE) and healthcare integration solutions, today announced that the North Texas Accountable Healthcare Partnership (the Partnership) has selected the Company’s HIE solution for access to and sharing of comprehensive patient data. Together, the Partnership and Orion Health will connect 12,000 physicians serving nearly seven million patients in more than 140 hospitals and 7 integrated delivery networks in the entire Dallas-Fort Worth area and surrounding 13 counties. The HIE, powered by the Orion Health technology backbone, will enable the implementation of preventive care coordination programs that will improve patient care and safety and make medical care more cost effective for the region’s many large self-insured employers, hospitals, health systems, clinics and other provider facilities.

I’ve been noticing a trend with positions being posted to HIMSS JobMine. Relocation assistance and hiring bonuses seem to be making a comeback.

Omnicell, Inc., a leading provider of medication and supply management solutions and analytics software for healthcare facilities, today announced that nationally-ranked Texas Children’s Hospital implemented the comprehensive Omnicell G4 platform in its newly opened 15-story landmark hospital, Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women. After a decade of using Omnicell solutions throughout all campuses, the hospital continued its exclusive relationship with Omnicell and expanded medication and supply management solutions into comprehensive OB/GYN care.

Venture capital funding in the healthcare information technology sector for Q1 2012 totaled $184 million in 27 deals, the highest number ever recorded, according to Austin, Texas-based consulting firm Mercom Captal Group.

Moonblink Communications, a value-added distributor delivering wireless and video surveillance solutions, today announced it worked with PC Care, a value added reseller (VAR) that delivers integrated IT solutions, to provide 100 percent wireless coverage for the Angleton Danbury Medical Center in Texas.

In Texas, where everything seems larger than life, the need for health IT workers is big, according to the Department of Health Information Management at the Texas State University-San Marcos.

Phytel, the leader in physician-led population health improvement, announced today that the Riverside Health System in Newport News, Va., has implemented the Phytel Transition™ solution in the emergency department at Riverside Regional Medical Center to provide better service and monitoring of patients who have been discharged from the healthcare system. Riverside plans to extend the Transition product to other areas of its integrated delivery system.

Healthcare access, cost, quality and outcomes can vary greatly from one community to the next, both within states and across states, depending on the performance of the healthcare system available to residents, according to a new report from the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System.