Healthcare IT

Craneware has bought Kestros Ltd. for $2.08 million in a move to bolster Craneware’s presence in the patient access market, Daily Record reported. Scott McCulloch writes that Edinburgh-based medical billing software developer Craneware plans to expand the use of Kestros’ technology platform from the National Health Service Trusts to the growing healthcare market. “This investment […] More

The Department of Health and Human Services has respectively awarded $12.9 million and $14.7 million contracts to Alere and InDevR to further develop influenza detection test methods. Alere will work to develop a method to identify a patient infected with influenza virus type A or B based on its iNAT Influenza A&B test, HHS said Wednesday. InDevR will also continue work on its FluChip-8G test to […] More

IMS Institute for Health Informatics recently published “Harbingers of Change in Healthcare,” a study listing ten game-changers in the global health scene. IMS Health said Tuesday it defines harbingers as “thresholds crossed, actions taken or decisions made triggered by innovations in technology, information use and connectedness of healthcare systems.” The list includes the greater engagement seen […] More

A report published by ReportLinker.com predicts that healthcare regulations and the perceived benefits of analytics technology use will help drive double-digit increases in the health analytics market over the next four years. The global market for healthcare analytics products could reach more than $10 billion in value by 2018 with a 22 percent compound annual […] More

A new Deltek report predicts federal spending on health information technology products and services will grow from $4.3 billion in fiscal 2014 to $4.8 billion in fiscal 2019. Deltek said Thursday the aging population, high medical costs and new healthcare programs for active-duty military as well as veterans are projected to drive federal HIT investment […] More

Harris Corp. will implement a medical technology for Georgia-based Phoebe Putney Health System to facilitate exchange of patient records across the organization’s network of five hospitals. Phoebe Putney chose Harris’ Fusion FX Provider Portal to help clinicians access medical data in real-time and make decisions at the point of care, Harris said Wednesday. Vishal Agrawal, […] More

Midas+, a Xerox company, has launched an analytics and workflow software that examines large amounts of patient-care information to provide healthcare providers insights on care recommendations. The Juvo Care Performance Platform works to suggest possible patient outcomes and trends based on data analysis from hospitals, national claims and continuity-of-care documents, Xerox said Thursday. Besides real-time analytics, Juvo also […] More

Emergent BioSolutions has landed a five-year, $29 million contract with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to make a dry formulation of the NuThrax anthrax vaccine candidate in an effort to facilitate shipping and storage at normal temperatures. The company said Monday the contract covers manufacturing, non-clinical processes and application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for Investigational New Drug status. “We […] More

An integrated clinical electronics records system that CGI developed for University College London Hospitals will soon be available for use by other healthcare providers in the U.K. Calum Macleod, vice president of healthcare for CGI in the U.K., said the e-CareLogic tool works to help healthcare professionals and hospital managers gain access to patient data and information. […] More

IBM and Mayo Clinic have partnered to expand the database of IBM’s Watson cognitive computer in an effort to develop clinical trials and provide individual medical options to patients. IBM Watson will work to analyze Mayo’s clinical data in order to match trials with specific patients, IBM said Monday. “Using Watson’s cognitive computing capabilities, Mayo Clinic can consistently […] More