Category: Software / IT
Service providers offering software / IT services to medical device manufacturers.
St. Louis-based Express Scripts is set to launch a national pilot for Vitality’s GlowCap pill reminder device; Kaiser CMIO on mHealth opportunity; Aetna offers SMS, apps, mobile web services; and Epocrates CTO, CMO talk EHRs.
Express Scripts inks pilot deal for GlowCap St. Louis-based pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts is set to launch a national pilot for Vitality's GlowCap pill reminder device. Express Scripts plans to begin a small version of the pilot in about a month's time and will launch a larger trial focused on drugs related to cholesterol, diabetes, high blood pressure and heart failure during the summer months. Express Scripts notes that while the trial's purpose is to determine the efficacy of GlowCap's reminder service, the companies are also eager to learn more about how patients take medication and why they fail to take it at times.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office grants iCad Inc. a patent for a lesion metrics used by its SecondLook Digital Computer-Aided Detection system.
iCad Inc. (NSDQ:ICAD) won a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for its SecondLook Digital Computer-Aided Detection system, covering "lesion metrics" used to provide radiologists with enhanced clinical information.
The Nashua, N.H.-based company, which makes CAD systems for detecting cancer, also won a patent for computed tomography image analysis software designed to improve three-dimensional assessment of imaging data, according to a press release.
Watertown, Mass.-based electronic medical records maker Athenahealth Inc. says its new system will speed payments for physician practices using its billing and practice management software.
Athenahealth Inc. (NSDQ:ATHN) entered into a strategic partnership with U.S. Bancorp (NYSE:USB) and its subsidiary, Elavon, to launch a payment processing service for physicians using Athenahealth's web-based billing and practice management software.
Watertown, Mass.-based Athenahealth said it will integrate U.S Bancorp's services into its athenaCollector and athenaNET software programs, which provide billing management assistance to physicians by flagging medical bill errors, up-to-date insurance rules and claims submissions.
Electronic medical records provider Athenahealth Inc. forms a partnership with social media platform Sermo to increase use of EMRs and teases a study showing that 80 percent of docs feel that electronic medical records have improved patient care.
Athenahealth Inc. (NSDQ:ATHN) formed a partnership with Sermo, an online physician's community to "help gauge and amplify" physician's opinions on electronic medical records.
The collaboration was announced to coincide with this week's HIMSS10 conference in Atlanta, where the companies also released a survey of some 1,000 physician members that shows while a majority of the docs think EMRs improve care, most find them costly and a bit clunky.
Cleveland Clinic researchers find a "significant change in the average number of days between physician office visits for patients" who used home monitoring devices.
By Mary Vanac
CLEVELAND, Ohio — The use of at-home medical devices to connect doctors and patients via the Internet can help both groups more efficiently manage chronic conditions, such as diabetes, high blood pressure and heart failure, according to research at the Cleveland Clinic.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. partners with government procurement specialists in a bid to rev up business with stimulus cash recipients.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE:TMO) is bringing in extra help to secure more business with cash-rich stimulus recipients.
The Waltham, Mass.-based laboratory instruments maker is partnering with The Winvale Group to broaden its reach among government agencies using federal stimulus dollars in the market for laboratory information management systems or chromatography data systems.
Boston-based imaging data management firm Amicas Inc. tentatively accepts a "superior" $6.05-a-share offer from a Midwestern rival, but opts to keep talking with its original private equity suitor Thoma Bravo LLC.
Hoping perhaps to squeeze a few extra dollars from one of its two suitors, Amicas Inc. said it's ready to accept a buyout offer from a rival information technology company but is still willing to talk with a Chicago-based private equity firm about a possible deal.
Boston-based Amicas (NSDQ:AMCS) late last year said it had agreed to be acquired by a private equity firm, Thoma Bravo LLC, for $5.35 a share, or about $217 million. That offer was trumped last week with a $6.05-a-share cash bid from Milwaukee-based Merge Healthcare Inc. (NSDQ:MRGE). Amicas executives initially cast doubt on Merge's financial ability to pull off a deal, but after reviewing an updated offer over the weekend concluded "the Merge proposal constitutes a superior proposal."
