Installations
June 4, 1999 2 minutes read
Installations
• IDX Systems (Burlington, VT) has signed an agreement with Kansas University Physicians Inc. (Law rence, KS) for a wide range of applications and consulting services. IDX will team with Medaphis (Atlanta) to provide billing and collection services. IDX also will be providing systems for billing, accounts receivable, enterprise-wide scheduling, editing, and managed care applications.
• The Baylor College of Medicine (Houston) has rolled out the Logician electronic medical record system from MedicaLogic (Beaverton, OR). When fully deployed the system will be used by faculty physicians and residents in the Baylor network of more than 100 primary care and specialty practices.
• Mecon (San Francisco), a provider of healthcare operational and clinical benchmarking data and cost management tools, has been chosen by Advocate Health Care (Oak Brook, IL), as its provider of benchmarking information. Mecon will implement its new web-based Mecon-PEERnext Operations Benchmarking Database in its eight system hospitals in Advocate Health Care. The PEERnext Operations Benchmarking Database enables a healthcare client to create and analyze benchmarking reports to their specifications online and obtain a real-time response from the Mecon data warehouse. Advocate Health Care owns and operates eight acute-care hospitals and numerous related facilities.
• Paracel (Pasadena, CA) a developer of bioinformatics tools, reported that its latest generation genomic analysis system, GeneMatcher, has been installed at Paradigm Genetics (Research Triangle Park, NC). Paradigm is using the system to enable high-throughput gene annotation and to augment its genomics-based approach to engineering agricultural products. "GeneMatcher provides a versatile tool for high-speed DNA and protein searches that would have been impossible only two years ago," said Craig Liddell, director of informatics for Paradigm Genetics. GeneMatcher is a massively parallel genetic data analysis engine for high-throughput search and annotation.
• Spacenet, a subsidiary of Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (Rockville, MD), reported that AccentHealth (McLean, VA), a leading health information services, will implement a two-way, broadband satellite communications network provided by Spacenet to transmit its video programming to more than 9,000 healthcare facilities nationwide. AccentHealth delivers healthy lifestyle TV information to more than 20 million medical waiting room visitors per month and more than 50,000 healthcare professionals at their offices. AccentHealth will use the SkyBlaster VSAT network to transmit video content to its subscriber base of more than 9,000 medical waiting rooms.
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