Product Briefs
April 16, 1999
Product Briefs
• The Center for Healthcare Information (Newport Beach, CA) has released the Skilled Nursing & Subacute Facility Database. It offers detailed information on more than 17,000 facilities, including all skilled nursing facilities and most subacute programs in the U.S. The data also includes more than 400 corporate nursing home chain headquarters, and more than 6,000 of their individual facilities. Information also is available on patient and payer mix, staffing, and special care units.
• The Healthcare Intelligence Network (Manas quam, NJ)) is offering a web site that allows researchers to conduct full-text key word searches and download news articles based on their search terms. Located at www.hin.com, the network allows searches of the current and back issues of more than 55 health management publications. Visitors also can be e-mailed when articles containing their key words of interest are uploaded into the site.
• HealthWeb Systems (Newport Beach, CA) has begun shipping release 2.0 of its Managed Care Integration System, which makes health plan and patient data available to providers, insurers, and employer groups. The system links users with the data stored in a health plan’s existing management system. Users with a PC, Macintosh, Sun Solaris, or HP-UX system can use a web browser to access the application server.
• Immunex (Seattle) and Wyeth-Ayerst Pharmaceu ticals (Philadelphia) have launched a web site to educate patients and health care providers about Enbrel, a new treatment for rheumatoid arthritis. The site explains how the new drug works in the body, offers a question and answer section, provides an interactive quiz to help consumers and their doctors determine if it might be right for them, and highlights several patients’ personal experiences. Enbrel is the first in a class of rheumatoid arthritis drugs known as biologic response modifiers, a new approach to management of the disease.
• Pangea Systems (Oakland, CA) has released GeneWorld 3.5, a product for sequence analysis and annotation that now includes flexible analysis and decision support. The new features are expected to be useful to researchers in accelerating gene discovery by transforming life science data into knowledge. It allows users to create strategies that function on multiple sequences, and strategies with sequence annotation and masking components. The company’s PULSE API feature allows it to operate with existing bioinformatics systems and solutions developed in-house.
• Phar-Mor (Youngstown, OH) has launched its online pharmacy, CyberRx Express, located at www.pharmor.com. The site provides online prescription services for residents of New Jersey immediately, and the company is in the process of developing similar services by region. The service tells shoppers how much their prescriptions will cost before processing the orders, and allows customers to e-mail questions about the status of their orders, drug combinations, or related in quiries.
• Phase Forward (Waltham, MA), a web-based clinical trial data collection and management company, has announced an active Internet clinical trial hosting program. The company has been working with Exodus Communi cations (Santa Clara, CA) to provide a managed and secure application hosting service. Since release of its InForm product in December, Phase Forward has launched six clinical trials on-line from Exodus’ Boston Internet Data Center.
• SciQuest.com (Research Triangle Park, NC), an Internet source for scientific products, has unveiled a new e-commerce site. The site allows buyers and sellers of scientific equipment to find, compare and purchase laboratory supplies, to include multiple products on one order, and centralize electronic billing, and to receive one-stop information on order status. The company says placing a traditional paper order costs on average $125, but the e-commerce application can cut that cost by 80%.
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