IDX Systems Corporation (IDX) was a

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technology company that formerly had headquarters in

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, United States. It was founded in 1969 by Robert Hoehl, Richard Tarrant, and Paul Egerman. IDX was acquired by

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and incorporated into its GE Healthcare business unit in 2006. A portion of the former IDX business (along with other software assets) were sold by GE to private equity firm

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in 2018. The resulting company was named Virence. In 2019, Virence was merged into

athenahealth Athenahealth, Inc. is a privately held American company that provides network-enabled services for healthcare and point-of-care mobile apps in the United States. The company was founded in 1997 in San Diego and is now headquartered in Boston, ...

Products

Prior to its acquisition by GE Healthcare, IDX had four primary lines of business: Flowcast was the original application produced by IDX. It is a revenue cycle management system for medium to large physician groups, hospitals, and integrated delivery networks, and includes scheduling, billing and collections modules. It is written in the

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programming language and runs on

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Caché. Flowcast was renamed Centricity Business after the product was acquired by GE Healthcare. The product is now owned by athenahealth. Groupcast was a financial management system for smaller-to-medium size provider groups. It was renamed Centricity Group Management after being acquired by GE Healthcare. The product is now owned by athenahealth. Carecast was a system used primarily by large hospitals and medical centers as an integrated clinical and financial application. Known as "Lastword" before IDX re-branded it, the system was developed in the 1980s by

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-based PHAMIS, Inc., a company acquired by IDX in 1997. Carecast also came in a regionalized version currently used at the

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in London. The main Carecast code-base is written in

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, TAL, C and

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and runs on Tandem/NonStop

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hardware. Upon acquisition by GE Healthcare, it was renamed Centricity Enterprise. In 2015, GE Healthcare announced it would sunset the Centricity Enterprise product. Imagecast was a radiology information system which enables "filmless" radiology image workflow. It is now marketed and supported by GE as Centricity RIS-IC.

GE buyout

On September 29, 2005,

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division announced it would acquire IDX for US$44 a share. The deal was valued at US$1.2 billion. The purchase was finalized January 4, 2006.

References

External links

General Electric's website
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