Health Information Technology News

SecureCare Technologies Launches Sfax Web Services, Enabling Seamless Integration of Health Care’s First Electronic … (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
SecureCare Technologies, Inc., a health care information technology company based in Austin, Texas, is pleased to announce the launch of a Web Services integration tool for its flagship product, Sfax(TM), the only EFR(TM) for the health care industry. Sfax Web Services provides SecureCare’s channel partners, health care information technology (HIT) companies and software vendors, with a simple, …

Rancho Cordova’s Health Net division may see layoffs (The Sacramento Bee)
Health Net is in talks to outsource its in-house information technology division, according to a company spokesman, and hundreds of workers in that unit work in the insurer’s Rancho Cordova facilities.

Tech Execs Paid Lobbyist $600,000 (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
The Technology CEO Council, a group of top executives from the information technology industry, paid Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti $600,000 to lobby the federal government in 2007.

Netsmart Technologies Acquires Largest Provider of Software for Private Practice Mental Health … (ThomasNet)
Netsmart Now the Only Provider to Offer Practice Management and Clinical Software Solutions for All Sizes and Types of Mental Health Care Providers GREAT RIVER, N.Y., Feb. 29 — Netsmart Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise-wide software and services for health and human services organizations, today announced it acquired the Therapist Helper product suite and operations from …

Global Med Technologies(R), Inc. to Announce Fourth Quarter and Year End Results on Monday, March 10, 2008 (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Global Med Technologies , Inc. , an international e-Health, medical information technology company, will report its fourth quarter and year end results on Monday, March 10, 2008, before the market open.

Health Systems Solutions, Inc. Announces New Executive Appointments (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
TAMPA, Fla.—-Health Systems Solutions, Inc. today announced that Wanda Sebald, Tom Lillis and Ted Weaver have been promoted to new leadership positions within the organization. In their new responsibilities, Ms.

IBA Health (ASX:IBA) Wins Contract With Standards Authority in Ireland (ABN Newswire via Yahoo!7 Finance)
Sydney, Australia, Mar 3, 2008 – (ABN Newswire) – IBA Health Group Limited (ASX: IBA) – Australia’s largest listed specialist information technology company, today announced that iB Solutions has secured a $445,000 (EUR275,000) contract with the National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) for a system for its Legal Metrology Service (LMS) to enforce laws governing weights and measures.