Newsbits, Jan. 19, 2010

Among the seven items featured in this roundup: OnFocus raises more capital..Joe Cook accepts more pro bono work...A VU School of Nursing official is on the board of a health supplier...Medical Banking...updates on Debut Broadcasting, Inkflip...and more here.

Hot100 includes Dandy Dozen

BusinessTN offers its Hot100 Tennessee up-and-coming companies, and included among them are a dozen or so VNC thought you might want to know more about: Aegis Sciences ... Capital Confirmation ... Cell Journalist ... eMids ... Emma ... Informatics Corp. of America ... Magazines.com ... onFocus ... StudioNow ... VGT ... Human Capital Corp. ... Waddey & Patterson ... Enjoy!

HealthStream's newest ally

In addition to HealthStream announcements of marketing and service alliances with Quorum Health and DisastersNet, today the company announced it's offering with OnFocus Healthcare a new "HealthStream Improvement Center" resource, to help customers act upon findings of HealthStream surveys and other research. The HealthStream offering builds upon OnFocus' Enterprise Performance Management product.

Sales, Ethics, Enterprise

Ron Galbraith, the founder of the Brentwood firm now known as OnFocus-Healthcare (previously M21 Partners or Management 21 Inc.), which as we reported Oct. 10 has just gotten an infusion of capital from Solidus, has a lot to say about ethics that wouldn't fit into our story. Sufficeth here to say, in conversation with him Friday morning, his comment that while there's no universal contradiction between ethical behavior on the one hand, and the drive to close sales or M&A deals on the other, in reality executives often face circumstances that can throw those two sets of values into "tension" with one another. In the current economic environment, one can only wonder how the key players have dealt with those 'tensions' over the years.