Technology and my first week home.
On October 7 while presenting in Vail, CO, I thought I had an attack of altitude sickness (not unusual me coming from sea level in Florida). The medics disagreed and had me checked into the Swedish Medical Center in Denver for 2 weeks. Last week was my first one home, and I tried to make [...]
SciQuest — On the Public Stage Once Again, But What’s Behind the Curtain? (Part 2)
Check out a video we previously posted on this subject here.
In the first post in this quick-hit series looking at SciQuest, I provided some very high-level background on where SciQuest sits in the overall Spend Management and …
Broadlane, MedAssets and the Future of Healthcare Spend
Earlier this morning MedAssets announced it was acquiring fellow healthcare GPO Broadlane. According to the announcement, MedAssets “has entered into a definitive purchase agreement to acquire The Broadlane Group … Broadlane Gro…
News Analysis: Oracle Acquires Phase Forward For $685M And Gains A Foothold Into The Lucrative Life Sciences Market
Oracle Adds A Trusted CTMC/EDC Solution To Its Health Sciences Portfolio On April 16th, Oracle announced its intent to acquire Phase Forward, a Cambridge, Massachusetts based Clinical Trials Management Software (CTMS) vendor and early electronic data capture (EDC) pioneer. Phase Forward adds 335 life science, medical device, research agency, and contract research organization (CRO) customers [...]
News Analysis: Lawson Software Closes Healthvision Acquisition for $160M, Deepens Healthcare Specialization
Lawson Acquisition Brings Healthcare Focused ERP To Last-Mile Patient Management Solutions On January 11th, 2010, Lawson Software announced it had closed a $160M all cash offer for Healthvision, a healthcare software solution headquartered in Dallas, TX. The deal continues Lawson’s deep commitment to industry verticalization and is notable because the deal: Expands Lawson’s vertical footprint [...]
Health Reform: Taking the Wrong Risks
This week the NY Times explores how failing to pass health reform will have an impact on innovation — and archetypal Silicon Valley startups. In the cradle of American innovation, workers are making career choices based on co-payments, pre-existing conditions and other minutiae of health insurance. They are not necessarily making decisions based on what [...]
BravoSolution and SciQuest — A Spend Partnership Match Made in Healthcare Heaven?
Earlier in the week, BravoSolution and Sciquest announced a partnership to pursue the healthcare Spend Management market, offering an integrated sourcing and procurement offering aimed at providers. The solution clearly appears tailored to healthcare…
Benenden Healthcare Society BPM case study #appianforum
Ian Grant of Benenden Healthcare Society, a UK not-for-profit, user-pay healthcare provider with almost a million members. They had a need to improve their business agility, and identified that they needed a new case management system as well as better auditability of the decisions made within processes. They reengineered their processes first, then had their [...]
