This Merck division was only created about a year ago and Fujifilm is a recent addition to the biotech market with the purchase of another chemical company last year. As mergers and acquisitions go with the use of business intelligence, companies are aligning themselves with “like” or similar technologies...
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In healthcare we call this locum tenens and it looks like this move is going up the executive ladder. This is an interesting article as it looks at the individual having let’s say 4 different companies to where they are the CFO, they could choose to use any one of the 4 companies to add content...
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Below are some of the highlights from the press release you can read in it’s entirety at the link at the bottom of the post. Profits were up from last year which came in at $1.58 Billion and basically people were not going to the doctor was one of the reasons cited for additional income this year...
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The joint venture with Tenet was announced in May of 2009. You can also read more on the Med3000 website here with their activities with Tenet. This involved a medical records system as well as practice management software and below is a short quote on how they are successfully managing...
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The for profit world is a mess he states but they have to come in and clean up. Non Profits are different sometimes creating thousands of pilot programs and many don’t go anywhere. Both worlds are imperfect he states and the key is to identify need and focus . I’d say those are some...
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If you read the Quack often enough there are several posts about Cisco’s investment in healthcare. Below are a couple fairly recent posts. The banks are also climbing aboard now to save travel time and create better collaboration methodologies. I just read where Cisco is the number...
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