Product Briefs
Product Briefs
• Advance Paradigm (Irving, TX) has launched an interactive Web site designed to provide its clients’ members with access to pharmacy benefit management services. The services include ordering mail-service prescription refills online, checking the current status and details of mail-service prescription orders, reviewing the histories of mail-service orders, and locating and mapping over 53,000 pharmacies in its national network. The site also includes company information and product and service descriptions.
• Attachmate (Bellevue, WA) and Shared Medical Systems (Malvern, PA) have partnered to offer Attachmate’s EXTRA! Personal Client solution for universal enterprise host access, with SMS applications. The relationship is expected to provide more timely and innovative solutions for healthcare institutions.
• Bio-Reference Laboratories (Elmwood Park, NJ) has completed the first phase roll-out of OnBase, a company-wide enterprise report management system that was developed by Hyland Software (Rocky River, OH), and is installed by Optical Archive Systems (Worcester, MA). The new system is a client/server application that offers fast access to a wide variety of information, including computer output to laser disk, image, and application documents.
• The 1999 edition of the Directory of Physician Groups & Networks has been released by the Center for Healthcare Information (Newport Beach, CA). The guide covers more than 4,500 organizations, including independent practice associations, physician hospital organizations, and management service organizations. An Internet edition also is available.
• The Challenger (Memphis) has introduced the Appendicitis Diagnostic Assistant, a computerized tool to help physicians accurately diagnose appendicitis. The assistant was developed using neural networks, which stimulate the brain. Neural networks use information to detect patterns and learn from them. Company officials say that appendicitis is just the first of what could be several dozen medical problems that neural networks can help doctors diagnose.
• Dendrite International (Morristown, NJ) has obtained an exclusive license from Marketing Management International (MMI) to market its products in Brazil. MMI produces palmtop technology products and is especially active in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East with 11,500 current users. Dendrite previously acquired Associated Business Computing (Brussels, Belgium) and launched a new SalesPlus division to provide mid-range solutions for the European and domestic markets.
• DxCG (Waltham, MA) has released new software to help managed care plans assess the effect of recently announced changes in Medicare payments. The Release 4 software features the PIP-DCG risk adjustment model released by the Health Care Financing Administration. This plan will increase reimbursement for health plans that enroll more sick Medicare beneficiaries, and less to plans that have fewer of the sickest clients.
• EhealthInsurance.com, which sells health insurance over the Internet, has expanded its operations into Illinois and Washington. The site allows customers to access a range of health insurance and provider information, obtain free rate quotes, complete enrollment applications, and purchase the insurance.
• Hooper Holmes (Basking Ridge, NJ) has expanded its alternative medicine web site for the life and health insurance industry. The new version was created to expand its ability to receive, process, and provide examination results through the Internet. The site now provides an interactive means for insurance companies to complete the application process online, schedule medical exams for underwriting policies, and to communicate client information.
• A dedicated Internet-based solution that allows cardiac surgeons and cardiac program managers to automate the processes of collecting, comparing, and analyzing clinical outcomes has been released by iMedex (Bethesda, MD). The application, called CD Source, gives instant access via the web to a secure database that collects clinical outcomes data and compares outcomes performance, including information such as mortality and cost efficiencies.
• LearnSat (Stillwater, OK), formerly Learnsat Systems Inc., has introduced ED-WEB, calling it the first real-time, high-speed, two-way, web-based, satellite-delivered (VSAT) Internet connection. With ED-WEB remote, medical facilities lacking a high-speed connection can now be guaranteed a response in seconds in order to receive full-motion, interactive video conferencing and Internet data. The system is based on a patent-pending technology that will provide connectivity using today’s GEO (Geosynchronous Earth Orbital) satellites and tomorrow’s LEO (Low Earth Orbital) satellites. For additional information, browse www.ed-web.net.
• MedCare Technologies (Oak Brook, IL) has formed medcareonline.com inc, a unit that will allow Internet users to anonymously access healthcare information though its web page. The site will provide health news, journals, research, and travel advisory services.
• The Home Care Information Systems division of Medic (Bloomfield, NJ) has released Visual Skilled Care Version 1.0, its new home agency software package, which includes modules to assist with regulatory compliance. The application is Windows-based.
• Medicaledge.com, a healthcare information web site from Integrated Medical Technologies (Lawrence, NY), has redesigned its site to streamline navigation, open a new commentary section and launch medical forums on contemporary health topics. The site also contains a community section with a monthly sweepstakes featuring a $100 gift certificate.
• Medical Information Management Systems (Nashville, TN) has announced the release of Internet Medical Record Access Card, a user ID card that enables patients to access their medical record from an MIMS database by entering a password and the Card ID over the Internet.
• The latest version of the International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification, 6th Edition (1998 update) is being made available on CD-ROM. The product is published by the National Technical Infor mation Service (Washington, DC), and is used as the classification system for morbidity coding in the United States.
• Object Products (San Francisco) will demonstrate its new clinical trials patient recruitment software at the Health Information Management Systems Society Conference an d Exhibition at the World Congress Center in Atlanta Feb. 21-25. The new system allows physician group practices and site management organizations to search practice management data to identify candidates for clinical trials based on specific eligibility criteria. Once candidates are identified, the system supports the complete patient screening and recruitment process.
• PictureTel (Andover, MA) has released PictureTel MedLink, an interactive telemedicine workstation intended for the perioperative, emergency and acute care settings. It provides "standards-based" video conferencing which enables specialty consults worldwide. The workstation’s higher resolution monitor incorporates data from interfaced medical devices.
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