ATLANTA--The EMR vendor had the sharpest booth at a HIMSS show several years ago, with the nicest signage and the best demonstration. The vendor was also facing a lawsuit from customers who said it didn't deliver as promised.

Healthcare coding, compliance and reimbursement provider, Alpha II, will equip its partners end-users with its latest code sets, ICD-9 CM, Current Procedural Terminology and Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System.

Watertown, Mass.-based athenahealth, a provider of Internet-based business services for physician practices, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Anodyne Health Partners, which develops Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business applications for healthcare providers.

Internet-based physican-business service provider athenahealth has booked an increase in its unaudited 2009 second quarter fiscal results, which ended June 30.

Coding Strategies, a auditing, education and reference consulting firm, and CodeRyte, a provider of computer-assisted coding, have announced plans to pool their collective resources to offer educational opportunities and coding expertise for the healthcare industry.

Orlando, Fla.Cardiovascular Business News sat down with Patricia Dear, president of EduTrax, an online coding, compliance and billing resource for healthcare providers, to discuss Medicares recovery audit contractors (RACs), who make a percentage of overpayment monies they recover for the government. Dear was a speaker at the annual meeting of the Alliance for Cardiovascular Professionals (ACVP) in March.

CT scans change the initial treatment plans of emergency physicians inmore than one-quarter of patients with suspected appendicitis,according to a study published in the October issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.