Benefactors
Abbott
Abbott is a global, broad-based health care company devoted to discovering new medicines, new technologies and new ways to manage health. Our products span the continuum of care, from nutritional products and laboratory diagnostics through medical devices and pharmaceutical therapies. Our comprehensive line of products encircles life itself - addressing important health needs from infancy to the golden years.
Abbott has sales, manufacturing, research and development, and distribution facilities around the world, close to where our customers need us to be. We are recognized for our global reach and our ability to serve our customers around the world.
Accenture
Accenture's Health & Life Sciences professionals deliver innovation and insight to both the private and public sectors of the marketplace, which includes integrated healthcare providers, health insurers, managed care organizations, public health organizations and pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical products companies.
Allscripts
With the largest connected community of clients in healthcare, Allscripts delivers an integrated platform of solutions to facilitate enhanced collaboration and exchange of critical patient information. We’re committed to delivering One Network, One Platform, One Patient.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/CDC
The mission of the CDC is to promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability. As the nation's prevention agency, we accomplish our mission by working with partners throughout the nation and the world to: monitor health, detect and investigate health problems, conduct research to enhance prevention, develop and advocate sound public health policies, implement prevention strategies, promote healthy behaviors, foster safe and healthful environments, and provide leadership and training.
Duke Translational Medicine Institute
The DCRI is the world's largest academic clinical research organization. We combine the clinical expertise and academic leadership of a premier teaching hospital with the full-service operational capabilities of a major contract research organization.
Epic
Epic makes software for mid-size and large medical groups, hospitals and integrated healthcare organizations – working with customers that include community hospitals, academic facilities, children's organizations, safety net providers and multi-hospital systems. Our integrated software spans clinical, access and revenue functions and extends into the home.
European Medicines Agency
The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) is a decentralised body of the European Union with headquarters in London. Its main responsibility is the protection and promotion of public and animal health, through the evaluation and supervision of medicines for human and veterinary use.The EMEA is responsible for the scientific evaluation of applications for European marketing authorisation for medicinal products (centralised procedure). Under the centralised procedure, companies submit one single marketing authorisation application to the EMEA.
All medicinal products for human and animal use derived from biotechnology and other high-technology processes must be approved via the centralised procedure. The same applies to all human medicines intended for the treatment of HIV/AIDS, cancer, diabetes or neurodegenerative diseases and for all designated orphan medicines intended for the treatment of rare diseases. Similarly, all veterinary medicines intended for use as performance enhancers in order to promote the growth of treated animals or to increase yields from treated animals have to go through the centralised procedure.
Food and Drug Administration
The FDA is responsible for protecting the public health by assuring the safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, medical devices, our nation's food supply, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation. The FDA is also responsible for advancing the public health by helping to speed innovations that make medicines and foods more effective, safer, and more affordable; and helping the public get the accurate, science-based information they need to use medicines and foods to improve their health.
GE Healthcare IT
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies that are shaping a new age of patient care. GE Healthcare's expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, disease research, drug discovery and biopharmaceuticals is dedicated to detecting disease earlier and tailoring treatment for individual patients. GE Healthcare offers a broad range of services to improve productivity in healthcare and enable healthcare providers to better diagnose, treat and manage patients with conditions such as cancer, Alzheimer's and cardiovascular diseases.
GE Healthcare is a $14 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) that is headquartered in the United Kingdom. Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 42,500 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries.
From ultrasound to MR to surgical navigation, GE provides industry-leading technologies that allow clinicians to see inside the human body more clearly than ever before. GE's patient monitoring and healthcare information technologies seamlessly integrate medical images and data across the enterprise to improve productivity and quality of care.
IBM
At IBM, we strive to lead in the invention, development and manufacture of the industry's most advanced information technologies, including computer systems, software, storage systems and microelectronics.
We translate these advanced technologies into value for our customers through our professional solutions, services and consulting businesses worldwide.
InterSystems
InterSystems Corporation (www.InterSystems.com) has served the needs of IT organizations and independent software vendors for more than two decades. InterSystems' showcase products, the CACHÉ post-relational database and the Ensemble integration platform, enable the rapid creation and fast integration of high-performance applications. Over four million people use mission-critical applications based on InterSystems' software. Twenty regional offices serve application developers and integrators around the world, and 24 x 7 support is provided for all InterSystems products. InterSystems is the leading database provider in healthcare, with CACHÉ in use at the majority of major hospitals and labs around the world, including America's 10 best hospitals as rated by U.S. News and World Report.
Kaiser Permanente
http://www.kaiserpermanente.org
Kaiser Permanente is America's leading integrated health plan. Founded in 1945, it is a not-for-profit, group practice prepayment program with headquarters in Oakland, California. Kaiser Permanente serves the health care needs of over 8.2 million members in 9 states and the District of Columbia. Today it encompasses the not-for-profit Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc., Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and their subsidiaries, and the for-profit Permanente Medical Groups, as well as an affiliation with Group Health Cooperative based in Seattle. Nationwide, Kaiser Permanente includes approximately 136,000 technical, administrative and clerical employees and over 11,000 physicians representing all specialties.
Microsoft Corporation
http://www.microsoft.com/healthcare
Microsoft is committed to improving health around the world through software innovation. Over the past 13 years, Microsoft has steadily increased its investments in health, with a focus on addressing the challenges of health providers, health and social services organizations, payers, consumers and life sciences companies worldwide. Microsoft closely collaborates with a broad ecosystem of partners and develops its own powerful health solutions, such as Amalga and HealthVault. Together, Microsoft and its industry partners are working to advance a vision of unifying health information and making it more readily available, ensuring the best quality of life and affordable care for everyone.
NHS Connecting for Health
http://www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/
The National Programme for IT, which is being delivered by the new Department of Health agency NHS Connecting for Health, is bringing modern computer systems into the NHS to improve patient care and services. Over the next ten years, the National Programme for IT will connect over 30,000 GPs in England to almost 300 hospitals and give patients access to their personal health and care information, transforming the way the NHS works.
NICTIZ Nat.ICT.Inst.Healthc.Netherlands
NICTIZ's task is to support the creation of a system which will allow an improved flow of information for and on behalf of the patient/client, making use of the potential of IT, with a view to raising the quality and effectiveness of healthcare. As an impartial and neutral organization, NICTIZ makes it possible for the various parties involved to exchange views and ideas, and it also stimulates initiatives and coordinates them where necessary.
NICTIZ is the abbreviation of the Dutch name for the National IT Institute for Healthcare. It is an impartial and neutral organization in which all parties involved in the healthcare process take part: providers of care (doctors, hospitals, etc.), recipients of care (patients and their organizations), health insurers and the government.
Oracle Corporation - Healthcare
Oracle's business is information—how to manage it, use it, share it, protect it. For nearly three decades, Oracle, the world's largest enterprise software company, has provided the software and services that let organizations get the most up-to-date and accurate information from their business systems.
Partners HealthCare System, Inc.
Partners HealthCare System is an integrated health care delivery system based in Boston, MA.
Philips Healthcare
http://www.philips.com/healthcare
Philips Healthcare is a leading supplier of diagnostic imaging systems and related services worldwide including x-ray, magnetic resonance, computed tomography, ultrasound, nuclear medicine, information management and consultancy services. With the acquisition of Agilent's Healthcare Solutions Group, Philips has added cardiovascular ultrasound imaging, patient monitoring, electrocardiography, resuscitation products and e-care business to its portfolio. By partnering with leading software companies, Philips can offer computing solutions that provide its customers with access to clinical and administrative information which helps to improve patient care and lower costs.
Philips has implemented more than 1,300 clinical information management solutions in cardiology, acute care, and obstetrics - interfacing and integrating to various vendors ADT and ancillary applications (numbering in the hundreds) utilizing the HL7 standard.
Philips is a leader in standards development for healthcare and actively participates in the DICOM, HL7, and IEEE standards groups among others. Philips Cardiac and Monitoring Systems business line, (formerly Agilent's Healthcare Solutions Group), founded the Andover Working Group (AWG) with the goal of speeding adoption of HL7. After the commercial release of products based on the Unified Messaging Specification, Philips led the merger of the activities of the AWG into HL7.
Quest Diagnostics, Incorporated
http://www.questdiagnostics.com
Quest Diagnostics, a leading provider of diagnostic testing, information and services, is also a leader in the innovative use of standards-based technologies for clinical laboratory services and disease management programs. Enterprise-wide deployment of HL7 and LOINC standards enable rapid interchange and integration of physician, patient, and third party data to provide unparalleled diagnostic insights.
Thomson Reuters
http://www.thomsonreuters.com/
The Thomson Corporation is a leading global provider of integrated information-based solutions to business and professional customers. Thomson provides value-added information, with software tools and applications that help its customers make better decisions, faster. We serve professionals in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, scientific research and healthcare.
