synopsis: IMS Health has acquired Med-Vantage, a San Francisco-based software solutions company, to further expand its presence and capabilities in the payer marketplace. Med-Vantage offers its clients a comprehensive suite of provider performance management and member engagement solutions that promote high-quality care.

synopsis: Halfpenny Technologies, Inc., a leading health information exchange solutions provider, announced that it has acquired Laboratory Management Services, a leading provider of clinical data acquisition and reporting solutions for health plans and clinical laboratories.

synopsis: Amerinet Inc., a leading national group purchasing organization for the health care industry, has acquired DataBay Resources, a health care business intelligence organization that builds intuitive software tools, and Inquisit, an innovative, health care education resource. DataBay Resources provides Internet-based software tools.

synopsis: Eclipsys Corporation, The Outcomes Company®, announced the acquisition of Enterprise Performance Systems, Inc. (EPSi), a leading provider of business performance-improvement solutions for healthcare providers. EPSi’s management and employees are expected to continue with the business.

synopsis: Ascend Learning, a leading provider of technology-based educational solutions for healthcare and other vocational industries, has acquired Advanced Informatics, a software company helping healthcare education programs more efficiently manage the clinical education experience of their students through its E*Value solutions.

synopsis: Frontier Capital is pleased to announce that it has partnered with existing management to complete a majority recapitalization of Healthx, Inc., a leading provider of online healthcare portals to health insurers, medical providers, and employers.

synopsis: Quality Systems, Inc., a leading provider of healthcare information systems and connectivity solutions, announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Opus Healthcare Solutions, Inc., an established developer of software and services for the inpatient market.

synopsis: PivotHealth, LLC, a physician practice management company, announced that they have acquired controlling interest in ClinixMIS, LLC. ClinixMIS is an Application Service Provider (ASP) that delivers accounts receivable and practice management software to physicians and medical billing companies.

synopsis: Health Systems Solutions, Inc., a management information and business intelligence services company that assists home health care companies, announced today the acquisition of CareKeeper Software, Inc., a privately held Atlanta-based provider of Schedule-Driven Financial Management Solutions for the homecare and medical staffing industries.

synopsis: Spectrum Equity Investors and Trident Capital announced they have made an investment in the business of HealthMEDX, Inc, the leading provider of long term and post-acute care technology, via an acquisition of the HealthMEDX, Inc. business. They will own a majority interest in the new company, HealthMEDX, LLC.

synopsis: athenahealth, Inc., a leading provider of internet-based business services for physician practices, announced that it has completed the acquisition of Anodyne Health Partners, Inc., a provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business intelligence (BI) solutions for healthcare providers.

synopsis: Yardi announced that it has acquired ALMSA Corporation, which provides electronic health record (EHR) and electronic medication administration record (eMAR) software and services for assisted living and long-term care communities. ALMSA’s platform includes assessment and care planning, financial analysis and risk mitigation.

synopsis: RealPage, Inc., a leading provider of on demand software and software-enabled services to the rental housing industry, announced the acquisition of substantially all of the operating assets of Vigilan, Incorporated, a provider of assisted living software-as-a-service.

synopsis: General Cannabis, Inc., a technology-based Internet marketing services company, announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, WeedMaps Media, Inc., has signed documents to acquire the assets of MMJMenu, LLC, the medical marijuana industry's leading provider of seed-to-sale collective management and point of sale software.

synopsis: IMI Health (IMI), a health care information company, has acquired Minneapolis-based BoundaryMedical, a leading outcomes measurement software company. Boundary’s Outcome Enterprise™ software complements IMI’s health care business intelligence tools giving both companies’ customers more robust data collection and analysis.

synopsis: MedAssets, Inc. has completed the acquisition of Accuro Healthcare Solutions, Inc., creating a leading healthcare ASP-based technology and services provider.

synopsis: MedAssets Inc. has closed the acquisition of XactiMed, Inc., a leading provider of web-based revenue cycle technologies and services to the healthcare industry. The acquisition will expand the offering of MedAssets Net Revenue Systems to include claims management, remittance management, denial management solutions, and an array of revenue services.

synopsis: MedQuist Holdings Inc. announced the acquisition of Poiesis Informatics, Inc., a provider of workflow orchestration software solutions to the healthcare industry. Poiesis willl be combined with M*Modal, a leader in advanced Speech and Natural Language Understanding technology, which was purchased by MedQuist in August 2011.

synopsis: Four Rivers Software Systems, Inc. announced that it has acquired the HarvestCEMS and HarvestFMS applications and customers from PartsSource Inc. The Harvest CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) applications offer the smaller healthcare organizations a cost-effective, easy, and quick to implement CMMS alternative.

synopsis: Passport Health Communications Inc. has purchased N.J.-based STAT Technologies, adding enterprise scheduling to its suite of patient access and payment certainty solutions. STAT offers one of the only systems for managing schedules across outpatient, inpatient and surgery areas.

synopsis: IMS Health has acquired Med-Vantage, a San Francisco-based software solutions company, to further expand its presence and capabilities in the payer marketplace. Med-Vantage offers its clients a comprehensive suite of provider performance management and member engagement solutions that promote high-quality care.

synopsis: IMS Health has acquired DecisionView, a software solutions company that helps life sciences organizations plan and track patient enrollment for clinical trials around the world. DecisionView offers its clients an innovative suite of decision support tools to improve the speed, efficiency and performance of clinical trial planning and management.

synopsis: IMS Health has acquired PharmARC, an India-based company specializing in commercial analytics and services for the life sciences industry. The acquisition adds significant scale to a world-class services delivery platform, strengthens IMS’s business process outsourcing capabilities.

synopsis: inVentiv Health, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire certain promotional and medical audit businesses of SDI Health, which IMS Health has committed to divest in connection with obtaining regulatory approval of its acquisition of SDI.

synopsis: IMS Health has acquired Med-Vantage, a San Francisco-based software solutions company, to further expand its presence and capabilities in the payer marketplace. Med-Vantage offers its clients a comprehensive suite of provider performance management and member engagement solutions that promote high-quality care.

synopsis: IMS Health has completed its acquisition of SDI, a leading healthcare market insight and analytics firm. It provides the industry’s most comprehensive de-identified patient-level data to pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies, enabling them to better understand the healthcare market.

synopsis: IMS Health, the world’s leading provider of market intelligence to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries, announced the completion of its acquisition by entities created by certain affiliates of TPG Capital, L.P. (“TPG”) and the CPP Investment Board (“CPPIB”).

synopsis: IMS Health, the world’s leading provider of market intelligence to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries, has acquired MIHS Holdings, Inc. The company’s two subsidiaries – IHS and MedInitiatives – provide the healthcare market with analytics and technology services to streamline and enhance healthcare data management initiatives.

synopsis: VNU NV announced it has agreed with IMS Health, Inc. to terminate the planned merger of the two companies. VNU said the two companies decided to call off their merger after shareholders claiming to represent nearly 50% of VNU's outstanding shares said they would not support the transaction under any circumstances.

synopsis: Signalife, Inc. and Heart One Global Research, an Irish-based heart information and clinical information management concern -- with technology used across the world through subsidiaries and affiliates in eight different countries have agreed to merge or consummate a similar business combination making them one company.

synopsis: Elsevier, the world's leading publisher of science and health information, has purchased CPM Resource Center from Eclipsys, a leading provider of integrated enterprise clinical, revenue cycle, access management, and decision support solutions. CPM Resource Center is a leading provider of executable evidence-based clinical tools.

synopsis: The Thomson Corporation, a leading provider of information to professional customers worldwide, has completed the acquisition of Solucient, LLC, a healthcare information business. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

synopsis: National Care Network (NCN) has completed the acquisition of Data Advantage Corporation, a leading healthcare information company. The acquisition combines NCN's recognized cost control services with Data Advantage's strategic products and information.

synopsis: IMS Health, the world’s leading provider of market intelligence to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries, announced the completion of its acquisition by entities created by certain affiliates of TPG Capital, L.P. (“TPG”) and the CPP Investment Board (“CPPIB”).

synopsis: PBI Media, LLC, a leader in high-value information products and consulting services for the telecom, aerospace, and media markets, today announced its purchase of the Chemical Business Services of SRI Consulting, the leading producer of high-value information and data for the global chemicals industry.

synopsis: Springer Science+Business Media (Springer) has acquired the Current Medicine Group (CMG), a leading publisher for the healthcare community. CMG is based in the United Kingdom and the United States and consists of four different operating units.

synopsis: Elsevier, a leading global healthcare and scientific publisher, announced today that it has bought MediMedia's professional medical publishing businesses ("MediMedia MAP").

synopsis: United BioSource Corporation (UBC) today announced the acquisition of MetaWorks, Inc., a leading provider of systematic reviews and meta-analyses to inform development, marketing, and regulatory decision-making regarding health care products and services.

synopsis: Susquehanna Growth Equity, LLC announced that it has acquired MediMedia Information Technologies, LLC (MMIT), a provider of managed care information for the healthcare industry. MMIT engages in the collection, consolidation, and interpretation of pharmaceutical and healthcare information from health plans.

synopsis: Discovery Holding Company (DHC) announced that it has acquired AccentHealth, America's leading Health Media Network. Delivered to over 11,200 medical waiting rooms nationwide, AccentHealth's programming and sponsor messages are delivered to over 19 million health conscious consumers each month.

synopsis: Elsevier, a world-leading healthcare and scientific publisher, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the entire share capital of Gold Standard, Inc., a US-based developer of online clinical drug information products, services and solutions to the healthcare market.

synopsis: Expanding its presence in the medical arena, EBSCO Publishing (http://www.ebsco.com) announced the acquisition of DynaMed (http://www.dynamicmedical.com), an evidence-based clinical reference tool developed by a physician.

synopsis: Symphony Technology Group announced that it has acquired Source Healthcare Analytics, LLC. STG will combine Source Healthcare Analytics with ImpactRx to form Symphony Health Solutions, which will be focused on delivering high-value data, analytics, and technology based solutions for clients across life science manufacturers, payers, and providers.

synopsis: DexCom, Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SweetSpot Diabetes Care, Inc., a healthcare-focused information technology company, in an all stock transaction, with initial consideration of up to $4.5 million and performance milestone-based earnout consideration of up to an additional $4 million.

synopsis: Quantros, Inc., an industry leader in healthcare data management, decision support analytics and prospective point of care data surveillance solutions, announced the acquisition of MediQual from CareFusion Corporation, a publicly traded company spun off from Cardinal Health earlier this year. Terms of the sale were not disclosed.

synopsis: National Research Corporation announced the completion of the merger with My InnerView, Inc., a privately-held leading provider of quality and performance improvement solutions to the senior care profession, that was previously reported on November 26, 2008.

synopsis: Mindray Medical International Limited announced an agreement to acquire a controlling stake of Zhejiang Greenlander Information Technology Co., Ltd., a healthcare IT solutions provider that specializes in PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) and RIS (Radiology Information System).

synopsis: Schofield Healthcare Media Ltd (SHML), a division of Schofield Media Europe Ltd, announced on the 16th January that it has acquired Medical Education Partnership Ltd (MEP). The company portfolio includes a number of key educational resources for health care professionals in print, online and in person.

synopsis: SpineUniverse.com, an online resource for spine focused health care providers and consumers, has merged with BroadWater, a leading provider of spine-related medical meetings and educational resources for physicians, to form SpineUniverse LLC. The combined company will be the premier educational and information resource on back pain.