By MICHELLE RONAN NOTEBOOM

 Epic Scores Another Big Win

Scripps Health selects Epic to replace its existing GE Healthcare’s Centricity Enterprise (inpatient) and Allscripts Enterprise (outpatient). The San Diego-based Scripps includes five acute-care campuses, 26 outpatient clinics, and 2,600 affiliated physicians.

No doubt that this is one that Cerner had hoped to win.

Marlin Equity Partners Acquires e-MDs

Marlin Equity Partners acquires ambulatory EMR provider e-MDs. Marlin will merge e-MDs with its existing portfolio company MDeverywhere, a provider of RCM and credentialing services for physicians. e-MD founder and CEO David Winn will retire.

e-MDs has been around since 1996, making them one of the oldest privately-held ambulatory EMR vendors. Their sweet spot has been smaller practices, which are obviously disappearing as practices merge or physicians join health systems. It’s actually a bit surprising that e-MDs has been able to make it this long without selling out.

Show Me the Money

• The Children’s Hospital Association selects Health Catalyst’s Late-Binding Enterprise Data Warehouse to enhance comparative analytics for its 200 member hospitals.
• RegionalCare Hospital Partners deploys RelayHealth’s Connected Care solution, giving patients and providers a longitudinal record that includes multi-vendor clinical information from multiple care settings.
• Tennessee’s Maury Regional Medical Center contracts with MedAptus to implement Professional Charge Capture (Pro) for its 40-provider Family Health Group.
• Drexel University College of Medicine renews its agreement with Allscripts for the use of Allscripts Touchworks EHR and implements Allscripts FollowMyHealth as its patient engagement platform.
• Ohio’s Magruder Hospital signs up for CommonWell Health Alliance interoperability services.
• Intermountain Healthcare implements iCentra at two hospitals and 24 clinics in Utah. iCentra is an EHR/PM/RCM system that integrates Intermountain’s care process models with Cerner technology.

Wheeling and Dealing

• Population health management provider ZeOmega acquires HealthUnity, a provider of HIE, MPI, referral management, and patient consent solutions.
• IBM invests an undisclosed sum in EMR developer Modernizing Medicine, which has now secured a total of $49 million in funding.
• Healthcare analytics provider PatientRoute Systems raises $7 million from Pierpoint Capital and Black Granite Capital.

New Blood

• Shareable Ink names Hal Andrews CEO, replacing the recently resigned Laurie McGraw. Andrews previously served as VP/GM of hospital solutions for Availity.
• AccentCare hires former Seton Healthcare Family VP Gregory S. Sheff, MD as EVP/CMO to lead the development of the company’s home health clinical platform.
• HHS CTO Bryan Sivak will step down from his post at the end of April.
• Galen Healthcare Solutions names company co-founder Jason Carmichael CEO. He replaces Joel Splan who will remain on the company’s board of directors.
• CommonWell Health Alliance appoints former athenahealth director Jitin Asnaani  the organization’s executive director.

Etcetera

• Voalte launches Voalte Clinical Workflow Solutions, a new service that helps healthcare organizations plan and implement workflow changes using mobile communication technologies.
• A Nuance survey finds that 97% of patients are comfortable with technology during office visits, with 58% saying it positively impacts their overall experience.
• The Liaison Technologies-powered Georgia Health Connect HIE fully integrates with the Georgia HIN.
• eClinicalWorks integrates wearable devices with its subsidiary healow platform, allowing data to be shared in a consumer’s PHR.