Product Briefs
Product Briefs
• BSI2000 (Lakewood, CO) has released its MedSAFE 2000 optical medical card system. The product stores and manages eligibility and medical information on optical cards, including emergency information such as allergic reactions and drug regimens, full clinical data, including detailed history of conditions and treatments, and patient identification with digital photographs and automatic machine signature or fingerprint verification.
• Domain Pharma (Lexington, MA) has unveiled Clin trace Release 2.7, a database software system for tracking and reporting adverse events. The new version provides Periodic Safety Update Reports, and supports electronic submission of individual case safety reports according to International Conference on Harmonization standards. It also offers support for the use of MedDRA Version 2.1 coding dictionary.
• MicroScript (Boston) and Meditech (Westwood, MA) will exhibit a new browser-based front end to Meditech’s Hospital Information System at the MUSE-UK conference in Liverpool, United Kingdom, next week. The new product will be able to enter or edit the demographics of patients, schedule appointments, place and review lab orders, and view discharge letters.
• OmniCell Technologies (Palo Alto, CA) has unveiled the first enhancement to its recently acquired Sure-Med product. The Sure-Med CT features unit-dose dispensing hardware integrated with OmniCell's advanced software applications. It includes profiling features, color touch graphical interface, Windows NT-based operating system, a single database, and data analysis and reporting.
• IMS Health (London) has launched ExecuNet, an Internet-based information management tool that provides pharmaceutical business information via computer to business executives. ExecuNet provides information on new drugs, product growth, therapeutic classes, and industry trends.
• LION Bioscience (Heidelberg, Germany) has introduced SRS 6, the new release of a widely used database query and navigation system for the Life Science community. SRS 6 provides access to a broad range of scientific databases, from biological sequences to metabolic pathways, single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and literature abstracts. With SRS 6, scientists at companies and research institutes are provided with a single interface to hundreds of the most popular scientific databases, a biological data warehouse solution. With SRS, scientists can perform a search across all of the public, in-house and in-licensed databases. SRS was initially developed in 1990 to provide a tool to simultaneously query the four main sequence repositories
• Quintiles Transnational (Research Triangle Park, NC) has expanded its Quinternet Informatics with the acquisition of SMG Marketing Group (Chicago), which has databases covering more than 200,000 U.S. healthcare facilities. Transaction costs are expected to be $3.2 million during the second quarter.
• ScienceDirect (New York) has launched a pharmaceutical package that includes five electronic products. The package integrates the journals of Elsevier Science, the ADONIS collection of life sciences journals, with the EMBASE suite of products. The Beilstein Abstracts will be integrated into the package later this year. The products will offer integration of multi-publisher full text with bibliographic databases, access to full-text journal articles, thesaurus-supported search tools, and customization features, such as alerting services.
• USP (Rockville, MD) has released MedMARx version 1.3, which upgrades medication error data collection at hospitals. The program includes an anonymous Internet-accessible national database, a unique set of data analysis tools, and an interaction communication and education program.
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