Deals, Deployments, and Short News

Misys Healthcare and Allscripts Announce Merger
By Neil Versel, contributing editor

Misys Healthcare continued its extreme corporate makeover by announcing early Tuesday its intention to merge with ambulatory health-IT powerhouse Allscripts. According to the merger agreement, Misys Healthcare’s London-based parent company, Misys plc, will offer full equity in the Raleigh, N.C.-based health care division plus $330 million in cash in exchange for a controlling, 54.5 percent stake in the combined company. In turn, Allscripts will pass the $330 million to its shareholders in the form of a special dividend, at the rate of approximately $4.90 per share, the two companies say. More...

iPhone Will Change Health-IT, Says Datamonitor
By Neil Versel, contributing editor

Following recent news that drug-reference database vendor Epocrates will be one of the first companies to develop third-party software for the iPhone, a new report suggests the too-cool-for-words Apple product could be the killer app that finally brings physicians into the digital age en masse. More...

Executive Q&A
Health Information Exchanges Push Forward
By Cindy Atoji

With the Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology (ONC) inviting HIEs (health information exchanges) to apply for 10 $10,000 grants to be awarded at the end of this month, ONC’s John Loonsk, director of the Office of Interoperability and Standards, says these new participants may include health record banks and integrated delivery systems. They’ll join 10 current HIEs in demonstrating interoperability, says Loonsk, who also directs the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) and the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) as part of his duties.

Loonsk spoke with Digital HealthCare & Productivity about laying the pieces of these puzzles together to move the National Health Information Network forward.

DHP: Give us an update on the National Health Information Network (NHIN) progress. Where are we?
LOONSK: Basically at a high level, we have three steps to the NHIN. We started with prototype architectures and now we have nine contracts that will do trial implementations. As a tenth participant, we have many of the federal agencies that provide care participating in this year’s activities, and we have a request for proposal that’s out on the street now and closes later next week to bring others into that activity as well.

The trial implementations are about trying to eliminate all the issues that allow us to get to a production NHIN. We’re going to be demonstrating the accomplishments in the fall; they include providing some core services for secure HIE as well as demonstrating certain capabilities that enable the consumer to play a more prominent role in those exchange activities as well. More...

Deals, Deployments, and Short News
Allison Proffitt, Digital HealthCare & Productivity Staff

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Lilly Singapore Center for Drug Discovery (LSCDD) - Associate Director of Informatics,
Lead and mentor a strong team for the Bioinformatics group at the Integrative Computational Sciences (ICS) department at LSCDD towards the development of novel algorithms, data analysis methods and software tools for drug discovery. Work closely with the Software Engineering group at ICS, and collaborate with the Discovery IT organization in Europe and USA. For additional information, or to apply visit: LSCDD


Lilly Singapore Center for Drug Discovery (LSCDD)- Senior Bioinformatics Scientist,Contribute to the development of novel algorithms, data analysis methods and software tools for drug discovery as part of the Integrative Computational Sciences (ICS) department at LSCDD. Work closely with informatics and software engineering peers at ICS, and collaborate with the Discovery IT organization in Europe and USA. The successful candidate will offer hands-on insight and expertise in tailored therapeutic informatics and statistical analyses at the post genomic era. For additional information, or to apply visit:LSCDD


Lilly Singapore Center for Drug Discovery(LSCDD) -Senior Software Engineer,
Join a strong team of software engineers in our Integrative Computational Sciences (ICS) at LSCDD. Collaborate with, and help develop integrated applications to process and visualize data from cutting-edge technologies used by scientists at Lilly Research Labs (LRL) and the Drug Discovery Research (DDR) teams. The Software Engineering team provides computational tools and tailored software solutions that enable the global effort of Tailored Therapeutics; ‘The Right Drug, at The Right Dose for The Right Patient at The Right Time'. For additional information, or to apply visit: LSCDD

Agilent Technologies-Asia Pacific - Job Requisition: 2021927
Job Title : Application Engineer and Implementation Specialist for Lab Informatics Platform
Location(s) : Bangalore, India. Project management: small to large scale implementations, including integration/ validation of Agilent’s software platform. Manage assigned customer account relationship, customer satisfaction and education of future Agilent plans. On time and on budget implementation, focus Pharma, Petro and Chemical markets. Qualifications: BS/’MS Degree in Computer Engineering, or other related discipline or equivalent. Apply

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GNS Biotech - Computational Scientist, Discovery Biology
Candidate will reverse engineer models from large coherent data sets. In addition, candidate will complete genome-wide association analysis of disease and drug-response and develop methods to deal with population genetic structure, pedigrees, missing data and computational scaling. http://www.gnsbiotech.com/careers/openings/

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