Allscripts, Eclipsys merge

Clinical software and ICT solutions provider Allscripts and Eclipsys, an enterprise services provider for hospitals, have signed an agreement to merge in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $1.3 billion, reports PRNewswire.

The combination of Allscripts and Eclipsys will create a huge healthcare information technology company, offering a single platform of clinical, financial, connectivity and information solutions.

The combined company's client base will include over 180 000 US physicians, 1 500 hospitals, and nearly 10 000 nursing homes, hospices, home care and other post-acute organisations.

Saint Elizabeth Health Care is introducing mobile healthcare technology to its front line staff across Canada in 2010, states Mobi Health News.

Saint Elizabeth is equipping staff with valuable tools to enable real-time communication and enhance the client experience through automated data collection and increased flexibility.

CellTrak, the chosen solution, which runs on Blackberry devices, will work seamlessly with our scheduling software to allow increased efficiency and capabilities to respond to client and system requirements more effectively, says Shirley Sharkey, president and CEO of Saint Elizabeth.

The benefits of expansion in healthcare are rubbing off on the medical devices segment, triggering a war for talent, writes Economic Times.

GE Healthcare, which estimates the Indian medical device industry at $3 billion and the imaging industry at $1 billion, says it is investing aggressively to tap the tremendous opportunity the Indian market offers.

“Some of our business segments could even triple their manpower,” says GE Healthcare South Asia HR director, Ayaskant Sarangi. Medical device companies are essentially the link between pharma and healthcare. These companies offer services in prevention of diseases, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of illness.