Product Briefs
Product Briefs
• adam.com has unveiled the adam.com Web site, calling it "the first second-generation destination web site for consumer health information." adam.com health content is coupled with a user interface, search and retrieval capabilities and an array of educational text, visual images and animations. The site features health information from a variety of sources, indexed content in specific areas of consumer interest and integration among the various sources and types of content. adam.com also announced that the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Nursing has agreed to provide will provide expert medical information on the web site. The UCSF nursing school faculty will develop specialized and community health topic areas, conduct live chat forums and maintain on-line message boards.
• American Medical Wireless (AMW; Claremont, CA) has launched its medical data communications service, Point-of-Care.Net, which provides secure wireless data communications between hand-held computers and medical clinics’ local desktop computer systems, other computers in the region and medical information services nationwide. The service will permit a healthcare professional to answer patient questions at any point of care. The service initially will be available in Orange County, California, this year and then be rolled out nationally early in 2000. The service will be supported by fee charges to clients, data sources other point-of-care computing beneficiaries.
• Cardinal Health (Dublin, OH) has introduced Cardinal ScriptNet services, a group of Internet-based services for retail pharmacies. Cardinal will offer the new services exclusively to its 451,000 retail drugstore customers. The first of the services, Leader Online, was distributed by Cardinal Distribution, a Cardinal Health company. Leader Online is a turnkey program that enables independent and chain retail pharmacies to establish their own web sites that allow patients to interact with pharmacists, order prescription refills and access pharmacy-related information online, at any hour of the day. It is being offered exclusively to members of Leader Drugstores (at www.leaderdrug.com), a voluntary cooperative of more than 2,100 pharmacies nationwide. Later this year, the company says it will introduce a broad range of Internet-based programs under the Cardinal ScriptNet services name to the entire retail pharmacy market.
• ePhysician (Mountain View, CA), a privately held healthcare technology company, has introduced ePhysician 1.0, an Internet-based technology that enables healthcare providers to prescribe and order laboratory tests at the point of care, as well as to screen critical patient information using palm-held computing devices. The system features high mobility, offering clinicians the ability to write prescriptions, order lab tests, and reference patient and other information, whether at a patient’s bedside, during rounds, or at a medical conference.
• Medscape (New York) has announced new enhancements to its HIV/AIDS interactive program that instantly generates a daily dosing schedule for multi-drug HIV treatment regimens. The Drug-Drug Interactions and Medication Daily Scheduler, also known as the HIV/AIDS drug scheduler, returns a detailed and printable dosing schedule to improve compliance by simplifying complex multi-drug scheduling. After a medication regimen is entered, the HIV/AIDS drug scheduler first identifies potential drug-drug interactions found among drugs commonly prescribed for HIV and AIDS patients. The program then tailors dosing recommendations to patient preferences for waking, sleeping, and mealtimes. The enhanced HIV/AIDS drug scheduler is the newest online interactive program at Medscape, which also offers a Risk Calculator for Hormone Replacement Therapy and a Risk Calculator for Patients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia.
• MicroMed Healthcare Information Systems (Horsham, PA), a division of Quality Systems, has launched NextGenWEB, a suite of Internet-based applications for healthcare groups and networks, plus a number of Internet-based services. NextGenWEB features offered to patients include: access to key parts of their medical record, including certain test results; access to health-education materials; direct input of demographic and insurance information, as well as medical and social history; patient-satisfaction surveys; appointment requests, confirmations and cancellations; and links to other related/informative sites. As part of NextGenWEB, MicroMed will design, develop and host Web sites for its customers. The MicroMed division is a result of the recently announced combination of Clinitec Inter national and MicroMed Healthcare Information Systems, both wholly owned subsidiaries of Quality Systems, which provides computer-based practice-management systems for medical and dental group practices.
• The National Committee for Information Technology Standards (NCITS; Washington) has launched an Internet standards delivery system to sell the NCITS/X3 standards online for instant download. The online store is a joint venture with CSSinfo (Ann Arbor, MI), an online provider of standards and technical specifications. CSSinfo will design and maintain the electronic gateway to NCIT online and fulfill online orders.
• Pangea Systems (Oakland, CA) has released GeneMill 2.0, a software program for processing and managing DNA sequencing. GeneMill 2.0 features include integration of the Phred, Phrap and cross-matching programs, via web interface, for an automated extraction of sequence data for more efficient analysis. Quality assessment is automatically performed on individual bases.
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