Acquisitions & Agreements
Acquisitions & Agreements
• Global Connections (Omaha, NE) has signed an equity/merger agreement with Advanced Logic Systems, doing business as AskALBERT.com (Mickleton, NJ), to represent a conglomerate of Fortune 500 companies in e-commerce activities. AskALBERT.com is a web retailer that offers products, services, and information to consumers and businesses. It is driven by its decision support software, which is marketed through its web site as SuperCom and Profiler II.
• Harte-Hanks Interactive (San Antonio) and MEDTAP International (Washington) are combining forces to provide computer-based cost and outcome modeling software for the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. The companies will collaborate to develop technical, production, and marketing strategies for eModeling tools.
• IMS Health (London) said that Organon has renew ed its sales management contract for IMS Health’s full line of sales management services in the U.S. The agreement provides for delivering sales support solutions to the pharmaceutical company, a major provider in the U.S. female healthcare and mental health markets. Under the agreement, IMS Health will continue to deliver a suite of sales management services to Organon, including Xponent, a prescriber-level information service; DDD, an information reporting system that measures pharmaceutical sales volume at the retail and outlet levels; and Xponent Plantrak, which provides volume and market share information for HMOs, PPOs, pharmacy benefit managers, employee benefit plans, and government assistance programs.
• Infectech (Sharon, PA) reported that its wholly owned subsidiary, MD-Diagnostics.com Inc., has been selected to provide Internet services to Affiliated Pathologists Medical Group (Torrance, CA), a major private pathology medical group. Mitchell Felder, president of Infectech, said that the company’s goal is to rapidly expand into the medial field of radiology and microbiology utilizing the Internet.
• Medirisk (Atlanta) has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Citizen 1 Software (San Francisco). The company also will change its name to Caredata.com Inc., effective immediately, and will begin trading under its new symbol, CDCM, on the Nasdaq market June 21. Citizen 1 brings to the company advanced Web research capabilities based at www.citeline.com.
• Object Products (San Francisco) and the Inter national Diabetes Center (Minneapolis), a not-for-profit organization that focuses on diabetes research, treatment and education, have agreed to develop an Internet-based diabetes disease management software system. The system will automate the Center's Staged Diabetes Management (SDM) program and integrate patient assessment, treatment, and outcomes management. SDM is a system for improving diabetes care in primary care settings, in use in clinics, universities, integrated health care systems, and HMOs worldwide. SDM is designed to promote screening and early diagnosis, increase referrals for education, strengthen surveillance of potential complications, improve patient outcomes, and reduce costs.
• Oceania (Redwood City, CA) and BCB Voice Systems (Markham, ON, Canada) have agreed that BCB will supply its PC-DART VoiceFlow, PC-DART PlayALL, and related software and technology for inclusion in Oceania Notes, a method for generating structured electronic clinical information. Oceania's technology enables automated capture, access, and analysis of clinical documentation. The company’s WAVE Electronic Health Record, Clinical Knowledge Base, and Oceania Notes components provide methods for entering and storing the patient health information traditionally handwritten or transcribed. The integrated solution will allow practitioners to interactively switch between Oceania’s structured information capture and free-form dictation, encouraging physicians to capture the full breadth of pertinent clinical information, while also enabling the user to learn Oceania’s structured information components at their own rate of speed, according to the companies.
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