Craneware, Inc., based in Orlando, Fla., has signed multi-year contracts with the North Shore-LIJ Health System on Long Island, N.Y., and the HealthEast Care System in Minnesota to implement the Chargemaster Corporate Toolkit, Online Reference Toolkit and Bill Analyzer solutions.

The SSI Group, Inc., based in Mobile, Ala., has launched its fourth-generation revenue cycle management solution, ClickON ClaimSmart Suite.  The software uses cloud computing technology and is offered via software-as-a-service (SaaS).

Click4Care, a Powell, Ohio-based provider of care management software for payers, has announced that its care management system can now fully accommodate ICD-10 data code sets and extract information from ICD-10-coded claims data.

MedAptus, a Boston-based provider of charge-capture technologies, has announced that Beth Israel Deaconess Healthcare in Needham, Mass., has selected the company’s Professional Intelligent Charge Capture product for its hospitalist group.

Connance, Inc., a Waltham, Mass.-based provider of business office self-pay solutions, has added a physician billing tool (called Professional Billing) to its Agency Manager vendor management solution. The Web-based platform monitors and administrates day-to-day vendor activity, and now enables providers to use a single platform for managing both hospital and physician outsourced collection processes.

Picis, Inc., a Wakefield, Mass.-based developer of healthcare IT products and services for the high-acuity area of hospital settings, has announced that its Bellevue, Wash.-based subsidiary,

LYNX Medical Systems, has received the Healthcare Financial Management Association’s Peer Review designation for its Picis LYNX E/Point emergency department revenue management solution.

Eldorado Computing, Inc., a Phoenix-based provider of health benefit and claims management platforms, has integrated its Javelina and HEALTHpac platforms with Preferred Medical Claim Solutions’ (PMCS) preferred data interchange (PDI) system, providing Eldorado’s health plan, third party administrator, insurance carrier and self-insured clients and other members with the ability to reduce the cost of “out of network” healthcare services.

athenahealth, a Watertown, Mass.-based provider of Internet-based business services for physician practices, has announced a partnership with Sermo, an online community for physicians.

MedAssets, headquartered in Atlanta, has announced that BJC Healthcare, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit healthcare organizations, will use the company’s charge integrity solutions to automate and standardize its charge description master and pricing for increased efficiency, billing compliance and improved net revenue capture. In addition, the company has signed a deal with Dallas-based Odyssey Healthcare, Inc., one of the nation’s largest hospice care providers, to use the company’s revenue cycle management solutions.

Novation, an Irving, Texas-based supply contracting company, has extended its contract for NOVAPLUS Contrast media with GE Healthcare though June 30, 2012.

Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions of Chicago has announced that the McLaren Medical Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Flint, Mich.-based McLaren Health Care Corporation, will implement the Allscripts Electronic Health Record for 150 employees in an agreement valued at more than $3 million. McLaren will also deploy the Allscripts Clinical Quality Solution.

The Eclipsys Corporation of Atlanta has announced that Sunrise EPSi Budget Manager, a core component of the Sunrise EPSi integrated suite of business performance management solutions, has earned Peer Reviewed designation from the Healthcare Financial Management Association. The company has also launched the Helios open architecture platform and added an integrated suite of mobility applications designed for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch.

The McKesson Corporation of Atlanta has announced that Somerset Hospital in Pennsylvania is using the company’s new PROmanager-Rx system to automate the dispensing of medications from its pharmacy. In addition, Oak Bend Medical Center of Richmond, Texas, has implemented McKesson’s Paragon hospital information system and AcuDose-Rx medication dispensing cabinets. Also, the company has announced that its Horizon Cardiology cardiovascular information system now offers hosted storage solutions for data protection, archive and disaster recovery, in addition to virtualized server solutions.

GE Healthcare of Barrington, Ill., is partnering with the Intel Corporation and the Mayo Clinic on a yearlong study to evaluate the benefits of remote monitoring devices for home-based medical care. The study will determine if home monitoring of patients with chronic diseases will reduce hospitalizations and emergency department visits. Also, the company has announced that InConcertCare, a health center-controlled network of eight community and migrant health centers in Iowa and Nebraska, will deploy Centricity Practice for Community Health Centers, an integrated financial and clinical solution. In addition, the company has announced the launch of its next-generation eHealth Solutions platform, an infrastructure offering that includes expanded services for health information exchange, a clinical portal and a patent health management system. As well, the company has unveiled Qualibria, a new clinical knowledge platform designed to enable healthcare providers to improve their performance against quality targets by comparing data against baselines of evidence-based best practices.

The TriZetto Group, a Newport Beach, Calif.-based provide of healthcare IT solutions for the healthcare payer industry, has joined the Center for Health Value Innovation, based in St. Louis.

Microsoft has announced a collaboration with the U.S. Surgeon General to provide new features and expanded access to My Family Health Portrait through Microsoft’s HealthVault platform. The company has also announced an alliance with Atlanta-based Eclipsys to market integrated healthcare IT systems, merging aspects of Eclipsys’ Sunrise Enterprise suite with the Microsoft Amalga Unified Intelligence System.

Royal Philips Electronics has announced a collaboration with Microsoft to build on Andover, Mass.-based Philips Healthcare’s foundation of healthcare informatics and clinical decision support offerings. The alliance will integrate, among other things, Philips VISICU’s eICU program with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and SharePoint 2010 Beta and Philips IntelliVue XDS with Windows 7.

NaviNet, a Cambridge, Mass.-based developer of real-time communications networks for healthcare, has added RelayHealth’s Patient Messaging and Online Bill Pay services, among other tools, to create an end-to-end healthcare communications solution that’s designed to allow providers to interact with health insurers and patients through a single Web portal.

MED3000, a Pittsburgh-based healthcare management and technology company, has announced a partnership with Acryness, a document processing and mailing organization, to provide the MED3000 QuikBill patient billing solution, powered by Acryness, to MED3000’s revenue cycle management and ASP practice management clients.

API Healthcare, based in Hartford, Wis., has announced that seven healthcare organizations will deploy the company’s human capital management systems. They are El Centro Regional Medical Center in El Centro, Calif.; the Georgetown Hospital System in Georgetown, S.C.; Huntsville Memorial Hospital in Huntsville, Texas; NorthShore University HealthSystem in Evanston, Ill.; the Phoebe Putney Health System in Albany, Ga.; Premier Health Partners of Dayton, Ohio; and University of Iowa Health Care in Iowa City, Iowa. In addition, Lakeland Regional Medical Center in Lakeland, Fla., will deploy the company’s time and attendance and remote hosting solutions.

Harris Williams & Co., a Richmond, Va.-based middle market advisor and a member of the PNC Financial Services Group, Inc., is advising Carolina Crescent Health Plan, Inc., in its pending sale to Absolute Total Care, Inc.

Unibased Systems Architecture of Chesterfield, Mo., has added U.S. Bank Healthcare Payment management to its slate of client solutions. HPM is a Web-based, peer-reviewed payment tool designed to help hospitals and other healthcare providers increase revenue, reduce bad debt and improve processes.

Concerro, a San Diego-based provider of hospital workforce management solutions, has unveiled a new iPhone application in support of its RES-Q scheduling solution.

Healthcare Management Systems, Inc., of Nashville, Tenn., has launched HMS Connex, a new interoperability product designed to enable the exchange of clinical data between third party systems, health information exchanges and public registries.

COBRAGuard, Inc., based in Mission, Kan., has been endorsed by the Texas Hospital Association and is now able to offer Texas hospitals its COBRA administration solution.

The Informatics Corporation of America, based in Nashville, Tenn., has announced that its CareAlign solution has been selected by the WellStar Health System of Marietta, Ga., and the Tennessee-based Cumberland Pediatrics Independent Practice Association to connect internal and external healthcare data sources.

Clinical Architecture, based in Carmel, Ind., has released Symedical Recognize, an addition to the company’s computer-assisted terminology mapping tool that helps provide real-time mapping of unknown source terms.

GetWellNetwork, Inc., of Bethesda, Md., has announced that Children’s Hospital Los Angeles will deploy the company’s new GetWellTown interactive pediatric solution for patient entertainment and education in its new 317-bed facility, due to open next spring.

Wellsoft, Inc., of Somerset, N.J., has announced that Memorial Hospital in York, Pa., is using Dragon Medical software from Nuance Communications, Inc., to navigate and dictate within Wellsoft’s Emergency Department Information System (EDIS).

The CGI Group, Inc., of Fairfax, Va., has signed a multi-year, $2.2 million contract with the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre of Toronto to implement the company’s Sovera enterprise content management and workflow automation solution.

CliniComp, International of San Diego has announced that the New York/New Jersey Veterans Healthcare Network has selected CliniComp’s Essentris ED and Essentials Critical Care solutions for emergency departments and intensive care and post anesthesia care units at five VA centers.

Diebold, Inc., a Canton, Ohio-based provider of integrated self-service delivery and security systems and services, has acquired Aurilion, a patient self-service and healthcare workflow management company, in a move designed to bolster Diebold’s healthcare offerings in patient service, staff workflow and revenue cycle management. The company has also signed an agreement with Amerinet to offer self-service registration solutions to the healthcare group purchasing organization’s member base of more than 2,200 hospitals and 30,000 non-acute healthcare facilities.

Epocrates, Inc., a provider of clinical information and decision support tools to healthcare professionals, has announced the availability of a beta version of its software for Google’s Android smartphone, as well as the Palm webOS platform. In addition, the company has announced plans to develop an electronic health records solution, to be marketed for solo and small group physician practices.