Installations
Installations
• Genentech (South San Francisco) has fully implemented the enterprise solution from Chemdex (Palo Alto, CA). The Chemdex product will allow researchers, scientists and lab technicians to compare and purchase biological and chemical reagents via the Genentech intranet which links them to a customized Chemdex site.
• Diversified Pharmaceutical Services (Minn eapolis) has signed a five-year contract with Oxford Health Plans (Norwalk, CT) to provide pharmacy benefit management to about two million Oxford members throughout the Northeast, including New York, New Jersey, and Connec ticut. Diversified will provide prescription benefit management services for Oxford’s HMOs, point-of-service programs, and preferred provider organization plans.
• Fornix (Salt Lake City) has signed contracts with six hospitals for its PowerScribe Radiology product, totaling $824,000 in revenues. The hospitals are Shands Medical Center in Florida; Community General Hospital and Lawrence Hospital in New York; Griffin Hospital in Connecticut; Citrus Valley Medical Center in California; and Ingalls Health System in Illinois. PowerScribe products capture, transcribe, and managed dictated clinical information across a hospital network.
• Insurdata (Irving, TX) is installing its Insur-Admin product to handle enrollment and eligibility administration of benefits for the 211 California banks in the Banker Benefits system. Banker Benefits is a division of California Bankers Insurance Services, a subsidiary of the California Bankers Association.
• The consulting unit of Norstan (Minneapolis) has received a $2.5 million contract to upgrade the electronic mail system for Becton Dickinson. (Franklin Lakes, NJ). Norstan will install 10,000 Lotus Notes seats as part of a three-year program. The work will begin in June and is expected to be completed during the third quarter.
• Persimmon IT (Research Triangle Park, NC) will install its Unify IT product for ILEX Oncology Services (San Antonio). The product is a clinical trail management software solution that links trial managers with study sites in real time through the Internet, centralizing management information such as study site screening, enrollment, and patient discontinuation rates.
• Health Midwest Comprehensive Care (Kansas City), a physician-hospital organization, has selected the MEDICOMP software from Physmark (Dallas) to manage provider risk contracts. The product will be used for claims repricing, managing specialty carve-out contracts, disbursement to providers based on capitation, and fee-for-service contracts.
• Arterial Vascular Engineering (Santa Rosa, CA) has selected QAD (Carpinteria, CA) to provide it with an enterprise system and full implementation services for a new site being developed in Massachusetts. The $2.58 million contract includes $780,000 for implementation services, data conversion, training, and support.
• QuadraMed (Richmond, CA) has been awarded a five-year, $5.4 million contract to automate and manage the collection, storage, and access of all New Jersey hospital discharge claims data. This agreement with the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services makes QuadraMed the conduit between the state’s 90 hospitals and state government agencies. The company said this is the first state-level, Internet-based healthcare data collection project of its kind. When fully implemented the system is expected to cut data submission costs by about 60%, and allow the state and its providers online access to inpatient and outpatient data.
• Quality Systems (Tustin, CA) has completed an agreement with Dental Associates of Delaware for implementation of the Clinical Product Suite. The new suite will make computerized clinical charting and digital X-ray and intra-oral imaging available to practitioners at the point of care.
• Siemens Medical Systems (Iselin, NJ) is installing products at a number of facilities. This includes: Saint John’s Health Center (Santa Monica, CA), which is spending $2 million in the first phase of an Enterprise PACS project; Children’s Medical Center (Dallas) is in phase two of an Enterprise PACS project; and the Mayo Clinic (Jacksonville, FL) is upgrading its Enterprise PACS.
• Simulations Plus (Lancaster, CA), a developer of drug discovery and development simulation software, has received an order for an initial license for GastroPlus, its gastrointestinal absorption simulation software, from Glaxo Wellcome (Research Park Triangle, NC). Glaxo received a renewable license for the product and the newly release Optimization Module.
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