Partnerships

The American Medical Group Association (AMGA) represents medical groups, including some of the nation's largest, most prestigious medical practices, independent practice associations, and integrated health care delivery systems.  The AMGA improves health care for patients by supporting multispecialty medical groups and other organized systems of care.  Approximately 95,000 physicians practice in AMGA member organizations and deliver health care to approximately 96 million patients in 49 states.  Headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, AMGA is the strategic partner for medical groups, providing a comprehensive package of benefits, including political advocacy, educational and networking programs and publications, benchmarking data services, and financial and operations assistance.

As part of its efforts to use data and technology to create a better health care system, the AMGA founded Anceta, a medical informatics subsidiary, which assists members with data warehousing, analytic, and benchmarking activities.  AMGA’s President and CEO, Don Fisher, currently serves as Chairman of Anceta’s Board.

For more information on the AMGA, please visit www.amga.org

Anceta, the medical informatics subsidiary of the American Medical Group Association (AMGA), builds upon AMGA's tradition of collaborative quality improvement and best practice sharing among AMGA member medical groups and other organized systems of care.   Anceta facilitates data-driven collaboration to enhance quality, safety, and cost-efficiency.  Anceta engages physicians and other clinicians in exploratory data analysis and motivates participation in collaborative improvement initiatives.  Anceta enables AMGA member medical groups to enhance value by transforming data into actionable knowledge and accountable, evidence-based practice.

The partnership between Humedica and Anceta brings together the industry’s most advanced clinical informatics platform and the experience of the country’s leading medical groups to deliver a powerful solution that enables Anceta participants to provide the highest quality and most cost-effective patient care.

For more information on Anceta, please visit www.anceta.com.  
 

BBN Technologies is a world-renowned technology solutions firm at the forefront of research and development in privacy and security, speech and language processing, data mining, networking and surveillance systems.  Since developing one of the first hospital electronic medical records 50 years ago, BBN has continued to solve complex problems in health care.  A 2008 clinical trial demonstrated that BBN’s patented Stereoscopic Digital Mammography system provides earlier and more accurate detection than standard mammograms.

Humedica and BBN have established a strategic relationship, leveraging and applying BBN’s technology expertise towards Humedica’s clinical informatics solutions.  Joint efforts include BBN’s collaboration on Humedica’s security standards, which have been designed to exceed industry standards in information security.  Humedica and BBN also have a multi-year relationship whereby BBN provides federal government agencies health care analytics solutions powered by Humedica’s clinical data.

For more information about BBN, please visit http://bbn.com/healthcare
 

Leerink Swann is a health care focused investment banking firm that provides capital markets, mergers and acquisition, corporate finance, equity research, asset management and strategic advisory services.  Since 1995, Leerink Swann has served as a trusted advisor to corporate, institutional and high-net-worth retail clients.  Every year since 2001, Institutional Investor has named Leerink Swann “Best of the Boutiques” in several health care categories.  Leerink Swann’s proprietary MEDACorp network, comprised of over 30,000 physicians, researchers and health care professionals, provides unparalleled insights into cutting-edge advances in health care.  Through its Strategic Advisory group, Leerink Swann provides consulting services to the leaders of health care companies and their financial sponsors on the strategic, financial and operational issues that most impact value, growth and profitability.

Humedica has a multi-year exclusive license and distribution partnership with Leerink Swann in the financial services market channel.

For more information on Leerink Swann, please visit www.leerink.com