Product Briefs
Product Briefs
• GeneLink (Margate, NJ) said it will enter the online DNA banking business so that consumers can order its non-invasive DNA Collection Kit on its web site. The kit provides the ability to preserve entire family medical histories.
• Mecon (San Ramon, CA), a provider of benchmarking data and cost management solutions for healthcare delivery, said it has improved the functionality and utility of its flagship Mecon-PEERx benchmarking product and service. The new Mecon-PEERnext enables any healthcare client user with an industry-standard browser to access large comparative databases and offers an interactive capability enabling those clients to create and analyze benchmarking reports. Specifications for these reports can be provided online and obtain a real-time response from the Mecon data warehouse. The company says the product "eliminates the need to install customized software," since it uses standard browsers installed on most PCs. Healthcare users can analyze any performance metric from their organization relative to a peer group or over time in either graphical or tabular format, and updated features provide the information to multiple levels of management in healthcare organizations.
• MedGenix (Menlo Park, CA) has developed the MedGenix Year 2000 Safe Parachute product for community hospitals with 250 beds or less to develop a proven information infrastructure that is Year 2000 compliant in as little as three weeks. The product uses the Informix Dynamic Server relational database from Informix (also Menlo Park) and Sun Microsystems’ Java technology to support applications for all aspects of hospital practices, including accounting, admissions and payroll. MedGenix says 11 hospitals have installed the Safe Parachute system.
• PharmaSoft (Rockville, MD) has released the commercial version of its adverse event reporting system, PS Drug Watch 2.5, featuring scalable architecture that makes it suitable for medicinal product companies of all sizes. The solution features a set of analytical tools for pharmacovigilance, allowing the user to graphically drill down to find cases of interest. Global aspects of the product include multi-lingual support, time zone awareness, single-case reporting for multiple countries, identification of reportability and labeledness by country. Features include entering, retrieving, searching, analyzing and reporting of and pertaining to adverse events. PS Drug Watch works in combination with PharmaSoft’s medicinal product database, PS Drug Base, and PS DocuMent, a document management system.
• Pharsight (Mountain View, CA) has released Pharsight Trial Designer version 1.2, which aids pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to bring drugs to market faster by assisting in the design of more efficient and cost-effective drug clinical trials. Trial Designer 1.2 is compatible with version 6.12 of the SAS Institute’s (Cary, NC) software for Windows. Collaboration with SAS Institute allows developers to streamline the process of planning a trial by facilitating visualization and analysis of simulated trial data. The interface facilitates development of more powerful predictive functions, such as survival analysis within the SAS software.
• R2 Technology (Los Altos, CA) has received ISO 9001 certification for its quality system in engineering and production. R2 Technology has developed a computer-aided detection system, the ImageChecker. The ImageChecker is a proprietary signal-processing neural network technology that assists radiologists by minimizing the possibility of false negative readings during the screening of mammograms.
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