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Headlines for Apr 2-6
- Posted April 6th 2009
- by Janice
Big news: Hearst’s Zynx Health and Elsevier partner to provide integrated evidence-based clinical info from ELS(FirstConsult) with Zynx’ order sets at point-of-care via ZynxOrder.
Matt Holt interviews Andy Slavitt, CEO of Ingenix. Slavitt provides an excellent overview of Ingenix’s health IT and EMR products (CareTracker).
NY Presbyterian hospital encourages patient use of personal health records via MSFT HealthVault. Hospital provides discharge info and report of care info to patient in PHR.
Good summary of conference at Columbia Law School on the Google Books Settlement. “The Google settlement may make the careful balances found in copyright law (as well as the public procedures to change it) moot, replacing them with private contractual arrangements instead.” “In the settlement agreement, only Google gets to make use of orphan works – those works whose rights holders do not announce themselves to the Registry.”
NY Times highlights Google’s far-reaching rights to orphan works granted in the Google Book Settlement. We will post more on settlement with links to key documents. NB: all publishers & authors of copyrighted books who want to opt out need to do so by May 5.
Richard Anders, a Boston-area entrepreneur, is forming an angel investment group to invest in life-science companies.
Harry Totonis, fmr MasterCard exec, named CEO of Surescripts, succeeding co-CEOs, JP Little and Rick Ratliff.
Elsevier’s MEDai healthcare analytics company launches patient-specific early warning system.
John Halamka lists the initial 13 members of HIT Policy Committee across differenct categories (Advocates for Patients; reps. of Providers, etc.)
Hank Asher, who sold his company Seisint to Reed Elsevier in 2004 for $775, is sued by RE for breach of non-compete because of reports of his plans to build data center in Boca Raton, FL.
Callanan will report to CEO Marty Kahn and will manage day-to-day operations for ProQuest publishing, marketing, customer care & content operations. She will continue to overall responsibility for Bowker, where she is currently Pres & CEO.
BMJ launches its BMJ Point of Care mobile product at HIMSS 09 in Chicago April 4-9. BMJ partnered with Epocrates to create Point of Care, which provides access to peer-reviewed diagnosis and treatment content from BMJ Clinical Evidence, as well as links to Epocrates’ drug databases.
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn on confusion that can arise from having too many different rating schemes for hospitals. Another point, how useful are hospital ratings if consumers don’t have meaningful choice in providers?
Merkle, a large database marketing agency, launches healthcare marketing practice & hires Jeff Wiltrout to lead.
Good comparison on search features of DeepDyve and Google for finding contextually relevant info. Describes how DeepDyve allows users to paste long paragraphs to find similar info vs. the keyword approach. Also hints that Google may be interested in acq. DeepDyve to counter MSFT’s move when they acq. Powerset.
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, part of WK Health, adds behavioral health module to its online Nursing Procedures product.
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