Healthcare IT News - October 2007 - (Page 49)

www.HealthcareITNews.com October 2007 ■ Healthcare IT News 49 NEWSBRIEFS INgENIx BooStS RESouRcES WIth hEalthIa acquISItIoN Ingenix, of Eden Prairie, Minn., has added to its stable of healthcare information resources with the acquisition of Healthia Consulting, a nine-year-old Minneapolisbased healthcare IT consulting firm formerly known as the StoneBridge Group. Ted Chien, executive vice president at Ingenix, said the Sept. 5 acquisition will boost the company’s footprint in provider consulting with expertise in actuarial, public policy, financial and process organization. Dosing done right, with RemedyMD PHR vendor adds Intelligent Dosing to list of features. By ErIC WICkluNd, Managing Editor SALT LAKE CITY – To the list of uses FIRSt coNSultINg SEllS FIRStgatEWayS to mEdpluS First Consulting Group, Inc. of Long Beach, Calif. has announced the sale of its FirstGateways product business, which enables the collection, aggregation and presentation of patient-centric data to clinicians on a real-time and secure bases, to MedPlus for a cash payment. The recently announced FirstGateways contract with NYCLIX, the New York City-based Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO), has been acquired by MedPlus as part of the sale. FCG will continue to provide consulting, integration and hosting services for NYCLIX and other customers using the FirstGateways solution. Brailer fund targets ‘problem solvers’ By BErNIE MoNEgaIN, Editor of predictive informatics in today’s healthcare setting, add one more: diabetes management. RemedyMD announced last month it would add the Intelligent Dosing System, developed by Dimensional Dosing Systems, Inc. of Wexford, Pa. to its suite of Web-based applications. The new feature will initially be used by endocrinologists who use RemedyMD’s EndoEHR, an endocrine-specific electronic health record, and diabetic patients who track their blood glucose levels and insulin intake using the company’s myHealthManager patient portal. “This is just another feature that allows the patient to determine the best practice,” said Emily Bonham, RemedyMD’s senior director of product management. “This works perfectly for a patient working with different types of dosages who has to make a decision. It’s better than a ‘best guess’ approach.” Bonham said approximately Dimensional Dosing Systems, Inc.’s Intelligent Dosing System helps diabetics and their physicians monitor and measure daily insulin needs. The service has been added to RemedyMD’s Webbased solutions. 20,000 customers make use of EndoEHR, while more than 100,000 people make use of RemedyMD’s patient portals. IDS is an online decision support system, using algorithms that allow both patients and dosINg see page 51 lodgENEt INStallS tV SyStEm at pIttSBuRgh kIdS’ hoSpItal The LodgeNet Entertainment Corporation of Sioux Falls, S.D. has installed a special “kid friendly” LodgeNetRX Interactive Patient Television System at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, the company’s first installation in a children’s hospital. The hospital will deploy the LodgeNetRX television system, which provides healthcare information and patient education modules, as well as an entertainment package that includes movies and games tailored specifically to children. Three months after launching Health Evolution Partners, a private equity firm focused on healthcare investments, David Brailer, MD, and his partners are ready to spend some money – and make some. Brailer detailed their investment strategy last month at the 20th annual Bear Stearns healthcare conference. First up will be investments ranging from $10 million to $80 million in what Brailer calls “growth stage investment products.” Expect investments, perhaps spin-offs or buyNEW YORK – “ companies that add real value to healthcare’s end users will become maRkEt-lEadINg compaNIES and ValuaBlE INVEStmENtS to us.” – David Brailer outs, in companies that have already shown considerable growth and positive earnings, Brailer said. The companies of interest to Brailer and his partners represent a broad range of heathcare, information and diagnostic services, he said. Fo r e x a m p l e , Health Evolution Partners is looking at a company that is helping doctors determine whether to put their patients on antibiotics. The investment firm is also looking at companies that provide devices BraIlEr see page 52 Sentillion offers a shot of ExpreSSO By ErIC WICkluNd, Managing Editor caREStREam hEalth SEcuRES coNtRact WIth Vha Carestream Health, Inc. of Rochester, N.Y. has secured a multi-million-dollar order with the Veterans Health Administration’s New England Region. The contract calls for Carestream to provide healthcare IT solutions that include Kodak Carestream PACS, a regional archive, data migration, network integration and other IT services to Veterans Integrated Service 1. In addition, the company will collect scheduling information from existing RIS suites and create a regional worklist to integrate patient information with each diagnostic imaging exam. More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: VeNDorS 1007 For healthcare providers burdened with IT expenses and looking for an economical SSO solution, Sentillion has an answer: A shot of ExpreSSO. “We’ve created a single sign-on solution, and that’s all ANDOVER, MA – Paul Roscoe it does,” said Pa u l R o s c o e , Sentillion’s president of worldwide sales and marketing. “It’s available, really, for the masses.” Company officials unveiled ExpreSSO last month in both the U.S. and European markets and announced that it will be deployed at Rush-Copley Medical Center in Aurora, Ill. before the end of this year. They’re touting the product as an affordable, streamlined solution for healthcare providers who are either just beginning to build their identity and access management platform or who are stretched thin in IT funding and need something that deploys quickly and easily. Based on a centralized ExprEsso see page 50 Compuware Covisint launches Trusted Authorization Manager By ErIC WICkluNd, Managing Editor U.S. pharmaceutical and healthcare industry online advertising spending, 2006-2011. Millions of dollars ● Celebrities, be they athletes, authors or actors, need agents to handle the flow of information coming in and going out. So, too, do healthcare providers. That’s the philosophy behind the Compuware Corporation’s introduction of Covisint Trusted Authorization Manager, a solution that provides an outsourced DETROIT – identity management service to hospitals and other healthcare providers. “As a service, we are becoming a custodian to the provisioning of access,” said Brett Furst, vice president of healthcare for Compuware Covisint, in a briefing prior to the Sept. 24 launch date. “As people try to do more and more collaborative types of MaNagEr see page 52 2,200 1,950 1,530 2000 1600 1200 800 400 0 2006 2007 2008 2009 820 975 1,190 2010 2011 e l Connect: GraPHS 1007 SOURCE: EMARKETER, AUG. 30, 2007 http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=7864

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