The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has awarded QuadraMed a five-year, $211 million contract to implement its Quantim coding, compliance and abstracting tools.

Saint Barnabas HealthCare System in West Orange, N.J., has selected InSite Ones InDex VNA vendor neutral enterprise archive to connect the systems six hospitals to a single long-term data storage tool.

Health information exchanges are expanding into new states and regions, delivering fast access to patient health information. But image exchange is all over the map. Some HIEs are exchanging images via cloud systems and viewers; others are looking for a business case and more seamless ways of exchange.

A focus on improving patient care and decreasing healthcare costs has created a need to centralize image and data access, enabling highly mobile caregivers to make decisions nearly anywhere.

ACT Health Management Services will deploy NextGen Healthcare Information Systems' NextGen Ambulatory EHR and NextGen Practice Management software.

Holy Cross Hospital, a regional care acute care delivery organization serving northern New Mexico, has selected athenaClinicals and athenaCollector, athenahealths web-based EHR service and medical billing service, respectively, to connect its owned physician group of 40 providers and rural medical clinics.

HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley, a health network of N.Y.-based community hospitals, has chosen to implement customer relationship management software company Reach3s CRM Custom tool to strengthen its consumer and patient marketing campaigns.

PerkinElmer and LinaTech have entered into an agreement to collaborate in the development, implementation, marketing and distribution of cancer treatment imaging technologies.