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• Cybear (Boca Raton, FL), the Internet based communications technology subsidiary of Andrx (Fort Lauder dale, FL), has formed an alliance with PhyMatrix (West Palm Beach, FL), a contract medical management firm, for the provision of Internet-based tools and applications to PhyMatrix’s 12,000 physicians. Additionally, PhyMatrix’s subsidiary, Clinical Studies Limited, has entered into a separate alliance with Andrx that will link PhyMatrix’s network of investigator sites with Andrx’s clinical development program. Mike Heffernan, President and CEO of PhyMatrix, said "These alliances provide our clinical investigators with an entree into Cybear’s virtual medical community, as well as a strong link with Andrx’s drug development team. In another deal, Cybear has contracted to be the preferred supplier of on-line healthcare services and applications to connect ION’s 1,000 physicians.
• IMS Health (Westport, CT) reported that it has received major new contracts with pharmaceutical manufacturers Bayer plc (London) and Novartis Pharma ceu ticals Canada (Mississauga, Ontario). Bayer has chosen IMS’ Strategic Technologies unit to support 3,200 users throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland. Bayer will move from its current-DOS-based technology to IMS’ Premiere system, a Windows-based solution that integrates sales and marketing information and delivers it rapidly to sales force laptops. In a three-year contract, IMS will provide its Premiere system technology to Novartis Pharma ceuticals Canada’s sales force. Premiere is designed to facilitate decision-making and enhance sales and marketing effectiveness. Premiere provides real-time profiling, targeting, activity reporting, team selling and sample management.
• Integrated Healthcare Systems (Reston, Virginia), a national developer of integrated improvement and risk management systems for healthcare, has been awarded a state-wide contract to automate hospital risk incidents collection and to implement a centralized risk management and quality improvement system for the Alabama Hospital Association Trust’s (AHAT) member hospitals. Estimated to be worth more than $1 million, the agreement creates an Internet-based system for 85 statewide hospitals. Risk and quality data will be collected and encrypted, using IHS’s new I-Link Enterprise interface engine, to a central management data warehouse server.
• Software Technologies (STC; Monrovia, CA), a provider of enterprise application integration (EAI) solutions, reported that Fairview Health Services (Minneapolis) has implemented STC’s Universal Index (UI) enterprise-wide master person index (EMPI) solution to integrate its cross-facility information systems. Going live Jan. 18, Fairview’s network of seven hospitals and 24 clinics connected 2.5 million patient and member records, enabling real-time access to information, thus assuring continuity of patient care. At Fairview, STC’s UI translates and assigns a global identifier to every patient and member record, thus establishing a unified approach for tracking clinical data, minimizing pitfalls associated with controlling multiple MPIs. Universal Index provides one shared index with identification and demographic information for all individuals who interact with the enterprise. The Universal Index ensures that users always get the most recent information regardless of which department or facility performs the service.
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