ActiveHealth Management has selected Initiate Patient and Initiate Provider master data management (MDM) solutions from Initiate Systems, Inc., to help accurately locate, match and link more than 15.8 million patient and 1.5 million provider records from multiple data sources to create a single, complete view of each patient and provider. Initiate Systems solutions also will assist ActiveHealth with improving operational performance by managing disparate sources of patient and provider information in order to reduce duplicate records and more effectively manage ActiveHealth’s health information exchange (HIE) with regional health information organizations (RHIOs). Read more...

Sage Software Healthcare, Inc. has announced that West Michigan Orthopaedics, a two-site orthopedic specialty organization based in Grand Rapids, Mich., is moving to the Intergy by Sage practice management system from its predecessor, The Medical Manager by Sage.

The three-physician group had been on The Medical Manager since 1994, according to Practice Manager Heather Duhr. While the product provided her with the information she needed to manage the organization, exporting and capturing that data was time consuming in the older practice management system. Now, Duhr will obtain the same information for her physicians with a just few clicks. Read more...

GYN Surgeons had Their First Opportunity Last Week to Experience the World's Most Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery Simulator at the 36th AAGL Global Congress

Simbionix unveiled the latest module of its highly successful LAP Mentor(TM) simulator line to members of the Global Congress of Minimally Invasive Gynecology. Read more...

Hundreds of community oncologists, representing more than $1.47 billion in annual oncology drug purchasing commitments, have registered for OneOncology Inc.’s first electronic negotiation event to be held Dec. 11.

The milestone follows the completion of OneOncology’s Practice Freedom Tour, during which doctors, practice administrators, pharmacy managers, oncology nurses and others around the country met face to face with OneOncology executives and discussed how to shift market power and lower drug pricing to community oncologists by combining purchasing power. Read more...