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Vendor Notebook - Meta Health Technology wins software contract with Premier member hospitals

Vendor Notebook - Meta Health Technology wins software contract with Premier member hospitals

November 25, 2009 | Eric Wicklund, Managing Editor

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Meta Health Technology of New York has been awarded a 36-month contract by Premier Purchasing Partners, LP, the group purchasing unit of Charlotte, N.C.-based Premier, to provide Premier’s more than 2,200 member hospitals and 63,0000 additional healthcare sites with access to pre-negotiated pricing and terms for Meta’s patient chart abstracting and electronic physician query software. In addition, the company has introduced PowerRac, a new tool designed to enable hospitals to effectively manage the Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) process and protect legitimate revenues.

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of St. Paul, Minn., has announced a series of updates to the Lawson S3 Supply Chain Management suite that are designed to help healthcare organizations adopt GSI industry standards.

athenahealth, Inc., a Watertown, Mass.-based provider of Internet-related business services to physician practices, has received a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for its “patient management and billing automation system, part of the company’s athenaNet rules engine for its athenaCollector revenue cycle management product.

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, based in Dublin, Ohio, has signed a five-year exclusive distribution agreement with Patient Safety Technologies of Temecula, Calif., to co-market the SurgiCount Safety-Sponge System. In addition, Cardinal has issued a $10 million purchase order for SurgiCount products over the next 12 months. As part of the purchase order, PST has issued Cardinal Health warrants to purchase 1.25 million shares of PST common stock at $2 per share and 625,000 shares of common stock at $4 per share.

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, an Atlanta-based global strategic advisory form, has announced a global implementation alliance with Learn.com, a Sunrise, Fla.-based developer of on-demand workforce development and productivity solutions.

 

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Tim77 says:

January 01, 2010 | 4:32PM GMT

Thanks for those great news.

Thanks for those great news. I hope that in 2010 meta health technology will gain more popularity in the hospitals of our country. This software is really very promising because it's functionality is amazing. I know that because I was writing a project about meta health technology few months ago. Thanks for posting this interesting information here and I will be definitely waiting for more nice articles from you in the nearest future too.

Sincerely,

Tim Nollton from java software development

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