Supply management tools and analytics software developer Omnicell has completed the acquisition of MTS Medication Technologies, a medication management equipment and software developer, for $156 million.

Figuring out how to improve interoperability among office-based ophthalmic imaging devices would solve a lot of headaches related to data management within the specialty, and, thanks to a contest from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), it could also make a developer or team of developers $100,000 richer.

Agilent, a developer of biological, chemical and electronic analysis equipment that spun off from Hewlett-Packard in the late 1990s, is planning to buy Danish cancer-diagnostics concern Dako for $2.2 billion, in cash, from its current owner, a Swedish private equity firm called EQT.

Telemis has added a cloud data storage to the options available for its PACS customers to provide storage and access to data such as PET/CT scans, and to meet patient-data handling requirements imposed by local or national authorities.

Quality Systems has acquired the Poseidon Group to support the growth of its NextGen Inpatient Solutions offering.

BC Technical has acquired Consus Medical Imaging, a Jacksonville, Fla.-based company that provides molecular imaging equipment service. While the company did not disclose the transaction amount, BC Technical said this acquisition will expand its customer base in the Southeast.

Emergency physicians at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania reduced abdominal CT scans approximately 10 percent after implementing an electronic accountability tool in the EMR and computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems, according to a study presented May 11 at the annual meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.

Silver Lake Sumeru, a technology private-equity company, and Essex Woodlands, a healthcare growth-equity firm, have signed an agreement to jointly acquire Medseek, a Birmingham, Ala.-based provider of patient engagement and analytics tools.