ST. JOHN’S, N&L and TAMPA, Fla. – Terra Nova Transcription announced that Steve Sanchez, of Miami, Fla., has been appointed Chief Operating Officer, a new leadership position for the company. Sanchez will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of Terra Nova, ensuring operational excellence across the organization.
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WINNIPEG – Intelligent Hospital Systems (IH Systems), developer of pharmacy automation and workflow solutions, announced it has acquired AmerisourceBergen Technology Group (ABTG), a unit of the U.S. giant, AmerisourceBergen. The combined businesses will form a new company that will operate under the name Arxium.
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OREM, Utah – KLAS has published its inaugural edition of the Global (Non-U.S.) Best in KLAS report. This separate report ranks vendor and product performance outside the United States in the following segments: Electronic Medical Record (EMR), Patient Administration System (PAS), and Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS).
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PHILADELPHIA – Canadian small and medium-sized companies seeking to grow their healthcare IT business in the United States are invited to the Digital Health IT Best Practices conference, March 12 and 13, 2015 at Jefferson University in Philadelphia.
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MONTREAL – Logibec Inc., which has a large footprint in Quebec and has been attempting to gain marketshare in the rest of Canada, will be sold to San Francisco-based private equity firm GI Partners under an agreement announced in December.
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MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – A group of forward-thinking information and communication technology (ICT) professionals has launched Mindful Experience Inc., to focus on Technology, Professional and Managed Services, Cloud, Mobility and Data Analytics services.
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FRANKLIN, Tenn. – M*Modal, a leading provider of clinical documentation and Speech Understanding solutions, announced that it has successfully completed its financial restructuring, reducing its debt by 55%, and has emerged from Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection.
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CALGARY – Strata Health Solutions has announced a growth equity investment from Polaris Partners, a Boston-based venture capital and private equity firm that focuses on the healthcare and technology markets. The investment will enable Strata to expand its leading integrated eReferral and intelligent resource matching products throughout Canada and the United Kingdom, and enter new markets in Europe and the United States.
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FRANKFURT – German engineering group Siemens plans to sell its hospital IT business to Cerner Corp, a U.S. provider of healthcare IT services, for $1.3 billion in cash, the two companies said.
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AMSTERDAM and SAN FRANCISCO – In a move to accelerate the transformation of the healthcare industry, Royal Philips and salesforce.com announced a strategic alliance to deliver an open, cloud-based healthcare platform, leveraging Philips’ leading positions in medical technology, clinical applications and clinical informatics and salesforce.com’s leadership in enterprise cloud computing, innovation and customer engagement.
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