Product Briefs
Product Briefs
• Advance Paradigm (Irving, TX), a provider of health benefit management (HBM) services, has launched an interactive web site www.advanceparadigm.com providing its client members with secure access to a number of pharmacy benefit management (PBM) services. These services include ordering mail service prescription refills, checking the current status and details of mail service prescription orders, reviewing the histories of mail service prescription orders, locating and mapping over 53,000 pharmacies in Advance Paradigm’s national network, and providing access to its national drug formulary. Future web offerings will include interactive disease management services, physician and member profiles, patient and member survey capabilities, patient and investigator recruitment for clinical research and on-line non-prescription product purchasing.
• D’Meditis (San Ramon, CA) has launched its Umics for Healthcare, an integrated software tool for tracking medical information in both distributed and local environments. The product retains an open architecture for integrating third-party tools. D’Meditis is a joint venture between D’Trends (San Ramon, CA). and Meditis (Ukraine).
• Genaissance Pharmaceuticals (New Haven, CT) has been issued a U.S. patent for the Clasper System. The company has exclusive worldwide rights under a license from Yale University (also New Haven) for the system, which allows the company to target and analyze entire genes from individual chromosomes directly from genomic DNA.
• The Health Industry Distributors Association (Alexandria, VA) has redesigned its web site to make access easier and to better organize the material. The site now features a Y2K Resource Center, discussion groups, market interest groups, a CEO forum, sales and marketing forum, and a press room.
• The Medicaledge.com healthcare web site by Integrated Medical Technologies (Lawrence, NY) has launched The Drug Stop, an online drug resource. It allows consumers to have prescriptions filled and delivered directly to their doors and provides information on generic and brand-name drugs.
• MicroTouch Systems (Methuen, MA) says it expects to launch several new products in the first half of this year, including a new line of low-cost, custom-designed "4-wire" resistive touchscreens; the next generation of the company’s capacitive touchscreen product line; a web-based E-commerce system; a portfolio of flat-pane touchscreens; and an expanded partners program.
• Pangea Systems (Oakland, CA) has launched its EST Clustering and Alignment software, with eight sales to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. The software converts high volumes of gene sequence fragments, called expressed sequence tags, and partial gene sequences into full length gene sequences suitable for use in DNA chip design and drug recovery.
• Physicians Online (Tarrytown, NY) has added a home page featuring direct links to specialty-specific content and clinical discussions. The Cardiology Edition is being unveiled this month. Other home pages will be launched for allergy and immunology, endocrinology, family medicine, gastroenterology, hematology, oncology, infectious diseases, nephrology, neurology, nutrition, and obstetrics & gynecology.
• The Platinum Group (Los Angeles) has launched the PharmHealth.com web site to bring together sales, marketing, management, and scientific personnel at pharmaceutical companies with healthcare professionals. The site will include discussion groups and a service called Dream Jobs, designed to match pharmaceutical and health professionals with jobs offered by top companies.
• Platinum Technology (Oakbrook Terrace, IL) is offering a rule-based application framework designed to reduce the time and costs connected with medical underwriting at insurance companies. The Medical Policy Underwriting System uses the company’s Aion application to automate business rules and knowledge applied by underwriters.
• ProxyMed (Fort Lauderdale, FL) has begun offering Internet-based financial and clinical electronic data interchange services. The services will be embedded in a web-based physician office suite of applications to originate and manage ProxyMed’s financial and clinical transactions. The first two applications that will be available will be Laboratory Results Reporting and Pharmacy Refill Authorization.
• Systems Xcellence (Milton, Ontario) has been recommended for ISO 9001 registration. ISO standards are aimed primarily at customer satisfaction by preventing defects at all stages, from design and production through servicing and ensuring quality. Systems Xcellence supplies patient-centric electronic transaction processing software for healthcare technology companies.
• Tall Tree Software (Fullerton, CA) has released its miniPsychDiagnoser software to assist in screening for psychiatric disorders and in measuring danger levels in adults and adolescents. Patients use a computer to complete a screen for DSM-IV Axis I disorders and risk of harm to self or others, and the results help primary care physicians assess emotional symptoms.
• Wyndgate Technologies (Lakewood, CO), a division of Global Med Technologies, has received FDA 510(k) marketing clearance for Safetrace Tx, a hospital transfusion management information system that supports both stand-alone and centralized transfusion services. Safetrace Tx assists hospital transfusion services perform a variety of functions: patient management; blood product ordering, inventorying and billing; tracking of blood product testing: and blood preparation, movement and transfusion.
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