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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on Mon, Feb 28 2011
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Biotech, Merck, Heatlhcare, Profits, Mergers and Acquisitions, film medical imaging, Fujifilm
Well here it is now from the government. A couple years ago I started posting about behavioral health and mostly relative to insurance companies. They use data to project risk and keep cost down with their algorithms. Guess what, they want the data like everyone else to predict and...
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on Mon, Feb 28 2011
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, privacy, Heatlhcare, NIH, Intelligence, wireless, Algorithms, participatory Sensing, business, mobile heatlh, mHeatlh, devices that record data, predictive behavior
It is certainly beginning to look like the Ipad is becoming a working hardware partner in the medical records business as GE is the latest to announce Centricity Advanced and Centricity Practice Solutions coming to an Ipad soon. Back in January another medical records program also announced their...
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on Mon, Feb 28 2011
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Medical Records, EHR, Patient, Heatlhcare, Doctors, GE Healthcare, iPhone, healthcrare, HeatlhIT, IPad
Whether or not this represents a savings for hospitals is not known yet but the company wanted to remove the “middlemen” so they could set their own pricing without the reliance of joining the buyers group. We kind of all know how volume sales work and bring the cost down, so in absence of such a big...
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on Fri, Feb 25 2011
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Hospital, Medical Devices, Medtronic, Cardiology, Budgets, cell phones, Heatlhcare, Data, purchasing, M-Link, devices that report. Novation