GE Healthcare of Barrington, Ill., has signed a multi-million-dollar agreement with Harrison Medical Center in Bremerton, Wash., for the Centricity suite of solutions for EMR, HIE, patient portal and financial management.
NaviNet, a Cambridge, Mass.-based developer of real-time healthcare communications, has received the Phase II clearinghouse product Certification Seal from the CAQH Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange (CORE).

The SSI Group, Inc., of Mobile, Ala., has announced a partnership with Boston-based Boston Software Systems to integrate SSI’s ClickON PREVENT (Precise Registration, Edit Validation and Enterprise Tracking) with Boston WorkStation automation software to provide a new workflow solution designed to enhance the registration process and expedite revenue cycle management.

Passport Health Communications, Inc., of Franklin, Tenn., has announced a partnership with the NCR Corporation, a developer of self-service patient registration technology, to integrate Passport’s revenue cycle management products with NCR’s MediKiosk and Patient Portal products.

Bloodhound Technologies of Durham, N.C., has announced that Senior Whole Health, a Cambridge, Mass.-based voluntary health plan for low-income seniors, has implemented the company’s ConVergence Point hosted claims editing service.

Six healthcare IT vendors – Allscripts of Chicago, eClinicalWorks of Westborough, Mass., the McKesson Corporation’s Practice Partner Software division of Alpharetta, Ga., MedAppz of Wichita, Kan., NextGen Healthcare Information Systems of Horsham, Pa., and Pulse Systems of Wichita – have signed formal agreements with HEALTHeLINK, the Western New York Clinical Information Exchange, to increase the adoption rate of healthcare IT in physician offices and other healthcare practices. Through the agreement, the companies have agreed to extend preferred community-based pricing for their products, technology and services to exchange participants.

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