Claritas' Brown to suceed Poston

Having secured investment from Claritas Capital, Entrada Healthcare Founder and CEO Alexander Poston will be succeeded by entrepreneur and VC associate Bill Brown, as Entrada rolls-out its medical-transcription and gateway-to-EHR offering, nationally. The VNC story's here.

Spheris in bankruptcy and sale

Long-teetering Spheris, the Franklin-based medical-transcription company, today announced it's going the Debtor-in-Possession route, with an offer for the company's assets in-hand from MedQuiest and CBay. An auction will be held to raise the ante. Details are in the company's release.

Informatics ranking

Middle Tennessee healthcare tech and tech-enabled companies Spheris, Healthcare Management Systems, Passport Health Communications, Healthstream and Cumberland Consulting Group all made it into the 2009 Top 100 ranking by Healthcare Informatics.