Acquisitions & Agreements
• Affiliated Physicians Network (Fort Lee, NJ) has reached an agreement with Impath (New York) to develop a new joint venture organization to provide oncology-related clinical research and information services to the biopharmaceutical industry. The new entity will use APN’s network of community-based cancer specialists and Impath’s expertise in cancer analysis, database, and data assessment capabilities.
• Bioreason (Santa Fe, NM) has formed a software devel opment collaboration with the Parke-Davis Pharma ceu tical Research Division (Ann Arbor, MI) of Warner-Lambert for Bioreason’s first commercial software system, called LeadFinder. The product automatically generates pharmaceutical knowledge about new drug leads from high-throughput screening data.
• CTC Laboratory Systems (Japan) will represent and distribute products from ID Business Solutions (Guild ford, U.K.) in that country, and support all of ID’s products. CTC will distribute ActivityBase, Object Manager, SARgen, and Xlfit products, and also will provide technical support and product customization in Japan.
• Eclipsys (Delray Beach, FL) has become the licensee of the Trillium MCS (managed care system) software from Health Systems Technologies (Seattle).
• Highmark (Camp Hill, PA), an insurance company, has signed an agreement with Enpower Health (Austin, TX), to use drkoop.com, its Internet site led by Dr. C. Everett Koop, former U.S. Surgeon General, allowing Highmark to deliver the Internet site’s healthcare content and tools to its 18 million members. Highmark does business as Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield in western Pennsylvania, and elsewhere in the state as Pennsylvania Blue Shield.
• InfoMedtrics (Needham Heights, MA) has formed a partnership with Computer Sciences (El Segundo, CA) to provide Fortune 500 companies with a fully integrated and customized system for managing healthcare and disability costs, and quality of care. InfoMedtrics’ Healthcare Infor-mation Center will be used to manage group health, worker’s compensation, disability, occupational health and safety, and financial and clinical data.
• PhyWell (Jacksonville, FL) has completed its purchase of the web site guidetohealth.com, and its parent company, Guide to Health Inc. The web site name has been changed to e-Well.com, reflecting the new owner’s intent to broaden the health education content and retail capabilities. The site provides consumers, physicians, and patients access to health and disease information, slide shows, audio clips, and a bookstore.
• Quintiles Transnational (Research Triangle Park, NC), has signed an agreement to acquire Envoy ( Nashville), a provider of electronic data interchange and data mining services.
• Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (Columbia, MD) and Bristol-Myers Squibb (New York) have formed a licensing agreement allowing Shimadzu to market Bristol-Myers Squibb’s customized hardware and proprietary software for performing liquid chromatography. The licensed technology includes hardware modifications to enable increased capacity for autosamplers and fraction collectors used in high performance liquid chromatography.
• Superior Consultant Holdings (Southfield, MI) has acquired the Integration Services Group of Healthdyne Information Enterprises (Marietta, GA). The group offers healthcare-related integration consulting services and was unrelated to Healthdyne’s core business of message brokering. The asset purchase is comprised entirely of cash and is valued at $2.2 million.
• X-Rite (San Francisco) has announced an agreement that calls for its Monitor Optimizer to be used to support the Universal Series Bus interface architecture on Apple Macin tosh systems. The optimizer is a four-channel colorimeter providing accurate monitor calibration. It will be offered at the same price ($595) as the serial-based counterparts, but has been restyled along the lines of Apple’s iMac.
You have reached your article limit for the month. Subscribe now to access this article plus other member-only content.
- Award-winning Medical Content
- Latest Advances & Development in Medicine
- Unbiased Content