Healthcare benefits software company Benefitfocus has acquired healthcare and benefits information management company Benefit Informatics for an undisclosed amount to bring claims data analytics, data warehousing, trending, forecasting and financial analysis to its platform.

Indiana Health IT Extension Center (I-HITEC), as a collaborative statewide initiative led by Purdue University in Indianapolis, has selected health IT company iSalus as an EMR preferred software partner to serve Indianas healthcare community as part of the federal stimulus program to implement EMR software systems.

Forty-eight percent of IT decision makers in the private and public sectors anticipate increased IT budgets in the next six months, up 10 percentage points from this time last year, according to new research from health IT company CDW.

NextGate has released MatchMetrix 7, a master data management (MDM) platform used to build industry-specific indexes, and three MDM suites for healthcare organizations that are built on the MatchMetrix 7 MDM platform.

Orion Healthcare Ventures has completed the transaction to acquire the assets of Aspyra for an undisclosed sum.

Merge Healthcare has reported a drop to net losses for its financial results in the second quarter of 2010, mainly due to $5.9 million in costs from its acquisition of Amicas. Despite the losses, the  company posted high double-digit sales increase in the 2010 second quarter, which ended June 30.

Vangent has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Buccaneer Computer Systems and Service, a developer of IT services, infrastructure, data hosting and data analytics for federal and state government customers.

Hologic has completed its acquisition of Toronto-based MRI equipment and diagnostic software provider Sentinelle Medical, for the purchase price of $85 million, plus a two-year contingent earn out.