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DEAR READER: Ah, Where did the summer go? Hope ya'll had a wonderful, healthy summer and are ready as I am to roll up those sleeves and get back to work. The following are some events that took place from June to August. Welcome back to StratCom's monthly update.

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Information Technology and Healthcare
Summer 2001

iMetrikus and Home Diagnostics, Inc. have entered into an agreement with iMetrikus to provide diabetics a turn-key solution to easily upload their blood glucose results into a secure, interactive health record. This strategy enables HDI to quickly launch a full-featured, interactive application with its new Prestige IQ blood glucose monitoring system.

Lab Tests Online, a first peer-reviewed, online health site for consumer news and information on a comprehensive array of laboratory tests was launched during the American Association for Clinical Chemistry's Annual Meeting & Clinical Lab Expo July 29-Aug. 2 in Chicago. Lab Tests Online will help patients and caregivers find the most up-to-date information on clinical lab tests like HIV, PSA, sickle cell and dozens more. The site is collaboratively produced by six professional societies: American Association for Clinical Chemistry, American Clinical Laboratory Association, American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science, American Society for Microbiology and Clinical Laboratory Management Association.

Baxter Healthcare Corporation and its affiliates in Canada and Europe have introduced the Advoy e-Care platform, an e-Care platform that provides clinicians with timely patient therapy information via a secure Internet site. Although it could be used for multiple chronic disease states, Advoy is being initially launched to support the treatment of hemophilia at seven hemophilia treatment centers in the United States and Europe.

Entelos, Inc. has developed a PhysioLab disease-simulation system for type 2 diabetes. The system was developed in partnership with the R.W. Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute (PRI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. The system includes the functions and systems of whole-body metabolism and can be used to investigate the potential mechanisms of the disease; identify, validate, and prioritize drug targets; and to simulate experiments and clinical trials in order to understand the effects that therapeutic interventions may have on patients. PRI now has access to the system through a three-year non-exclusive license agreement.

Johns Hopkins and American Healthways have established an Outcomes Verification Program at Johns Hopkins to independently evaluate and verify the effectiveness of a wide range of models of outcomes interventions and their clinical and financial results. The Johns Hopkins Outcomes Verification Program's initial work for American Healthways will be to evaluate the Company's Care Enhancement interventions and then, separately, evaluate the research conducted by American Healthways. American Healthway's products include diabetes healthways, cardiac healthways, respiratory healthways and myhealthways.

Bridge Medical, has formed a partnership with Healthcare-ID Inc. to expand the capabilities of the Bridge MedPoint system to include verification of blood transfusions and laboratory specimens. The MedPoint system already features automatic checking of the five rights of medication administration -- right patient, right drug, right dose, right time and right route -- and additional safety features such as maximum daily dose monitoring, alerts for look-alike sound-alike drugs and high-risk medications, and allergy checking.

QRS Diagnostic, LLC has formed a partnership with CompleWare Corporation to enable wireless, automated, electronic capture of clinical trial data. The partnership will facilitate integration of physiological data using QRS devices with CompleWare WebCRF software.

The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Cardiovascular Consortium, an eight-hospital team coordinated by the University of Michigan Health System, has developed a statistical model that will predict a heart patient's risk of death from procedures like balloon angioplasty or stenting, procedures. The model allows physicians to customize risk assessment based on a patient's own specific medical history. The consortium created a standardized form to collect information, including gender, age, medications taken, other medical conditions such as hypertension, and prior operations such as bypass surgeries.

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