BioClinica Acquires CardioNow From Agfa Healthcare

BioClinica has acquired the CardioNow unit of Agfa HealthCare. With this addition, BioClinica now offers streamlined electronic transport solutions to facilitate the blinding, sharing, tracking and archiving of medical images for multi-center clinical trials as part of its suite of imaging services.

Imaging information will also be integrated with BioClinica Express electronic data capture to further simplify and enhance the clinical trial process for life science companies.

With the integration of CardioNow, BioClinica will be able to manage every step of the process that begins once a medical image is acquired at a clinical site through the delivery of evaluated results to the sponsor. This end-to-end control will ensure that the process is as efficient and expedient as possible, said the company.

Mark Weinstein, president and CEO of BioClinica, said: “CardioNow fits perfectly into BioClinica’s strategy of adding components that are both complimentary to our current products and services and that help to create a more efficient clinical trial process. We will continue to build on the technology and high level of customer service offered by Agfa Healthcare’s CardioNow unit. An additional benefit is that once CardioNow is integrated with our current processes — approximately 45 days — we can offer our clients an immediate cost savings on each of the more than 200 clinical trials that we are currently supporting.

“CardioNow will provide immediate benefits to our Bioimaging Services clients and as such the CardioNow team will be integrated into that division and report to Dave Pitler, president of our Bio-Imaging Services division. We will immediately begin work on integrating the CardioNow products and services with our eclinical offering to provide medical device and pharmaceutical clients with a comprehensive offering that will be unmatched in the industry.”