IBM and Convergence CT Team to Provide Clinical Data Warehousing for Healthcare and Life Sciences
March 1st, 2007 Leave a comment Visited 30 times, 1 so far today
IBM and Convergence CT Team to Provide Clinical Data Warehousing for Healthcare and Life Sciences
IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Convergence CT today announced an agreement to jointly market clinical data warehousing products for the healthcare and life sciences industries. The new Clinical Data Warehouse will be based on the IBM Balanced Configuration Unit (BCU) for Linux and Convergence CT’s DB*FOCUS™ Clinical Data Warehouse technology. The fully integrated solution will be jointly marketed worldwide. “We are extremely excited about this partnership with IBM to develop and market our highly advanced, newest generation of Patient Data Warehousing technology,” stated Lambert Onuma, President and CEO of Convergence CT. “In combination with our DB*FOCUS technology and analytics, the advances that IBM’s platforms and Business Intelligence tools bring will be unmatched in the industry.”
In addition to offering healthcare providers the Clinical Data Warehouse, IBM and Convergence CT will market a joint solution to life sciences companies (Pharmaceutical, Biotech, and Medical Device firms) based on longitudinal patient data and advanced analytics. Moving forward, the two firms will continue to work together on the development of a variety of new technologies and product offerings.
“One of the greatest challenges facing our healthcare clients has been gaining access to integrated patient data that meets today’s compliance requirements,” said Karen Parrish, Vice President, IBM Business Intelligence Solutions. “The combination of IBM’s Balanced Configuration Unit for Linux and Convergence CT’s DB*FOCUS provides a pre-packaged Clinical Data Warehouse solution for this highly sensitive information.”
Convergence CT is also the data warehousing and analytics partner of Anceta LLC, a health informatics subsidiary of the American Medical Group Association (AMGA), which supports AMGA’s strong tradition of collaborative quality improvement. Convergence CT, Anceta and the AMGA are collaborating with AMGA’s multi-specialty medical groups to extract, aggregate and analyze comprehensive, HIPAA-compliant patient data among participating AMGA members.
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