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The Changing Life Sciences Value Chain

  • Up 31% in Two Years: Manufacturing and Supply Chain IT...
    Entry posted Jul 26 by Eric Newmark , tagged IT Outsourcing, Supply Chain Management

    With the global recession now in the rear view mirror, life science companies are slowly shifting their primary cost-cutting focus back toward long-term top-line growth. Manufacturing and supply chain strategies are not only a critical component of maintaining lower-costs, but they also hold the key to reducing corporate liability, protecting brand equity and optimizing operational efficiency going forward. A key piece of this effort includes IT outsourcing, and all fingers point to continued growth in this market.

  • There's An App for That – The Opportunity for Mobile...
    Entry posted Jul 20 by Dr. Alan S. Louie , tagged Best Practices, Business Intelligence, Clinical Trial Management, Component and SOA Technology Adoption, Consumerism, Customer Relationship Management, Drug Development, EClinical, Electronic Data Capture, Medical Home

    Notwithstanding the current issues with the iPhone 4, the use of mobile technologies (including, cell phones, Blackberries, iPhones/iTouches, PDAs, and iPads) are delivering significant benefits to the life sciences industry today.  In an upcoming short report, I plan to highlight some of the specific areas where mobile solutions are justifying their use and delivering value in the industry across a wide variety of applications.  With the role of consumers in the greater health industry continues to grow, this trend will likely increase, bringing new data and insights to drive better medical interventions and constantly moving the industry forward.  Patient recruitment, treatment compliance, eDiaries, medical alerts, adverse event reporting, remote patient monitoring, collaboration, and consumer marketing are all areas where mobile solutions are likely to have early impacts.  I welcome a discussion on where else mobile solutions will change existing practices for the better as well as assessment of applications likely to result in dead ends. 

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EMR and EHR for Providers

  • How Many EMRs Can You Count?
    Entry posted Jul 6 by Judy Hanover , tagged Ambulatory Care, Electronic Medical Records, Electronic Patient Records, Electronic Prescribing, Healthcare Marketing and Sales, Inpatient Care, North America, RHIOs / HIEs

    On June 9, 2010, the $1.3 billion acquisition of Eclipsys Corporation by Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions, Inc. was announced.  Eclipsys is a vendor of primarily inpatient, but also ambulatory EMRs, while Allscripts has focused on the ambulatory market exclusively.  In thinking about the upcoming  merger, the ambulatory EMR picture just sounded really confusing.  While we published a Perspective report last week covering what we feel will be the implications of the merger for hospitals and practices using Eclipsys and Allscripts products, we found that listing and counting the ambulatory EMRs started to make the picture (and the potential issues for end users) a little clearer.  

  • HIE Technology Solutions - A Nascent but Volatile Market1
    Entry posted May 19 by Lynne Dunbrack , tagged Best practices, Electronic Patient Records, RHIOs / HIEs

    To demonstrate meaningful use of electronic health records and thus qualify for incentive payments under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), healthcare organizations will have to invest in health information exchange (HIE) technologies. David Blumenthal, M.D., National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, has made it very clear that information should follow the patient "across the enterprise and among competing entities."  The HIE market is characterized by a number of suppliers offering a wide variety of technologies and strategies to exchange health information including integration platforms, data aggregation, physician portals, and composite applications. There is a not a one-size-fits-all solution.

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