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Bio-IT World | Last April, we handed out the Bio•IT World 2010 Best Practices Awards at a lavish awards ceremony in Boston during the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo. Here you’ll find profiles of the six category winners and three other awards: the Editors’ Choice Award, the Judges’ Prize, and a Community Service Award.
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Bio-IT World | For months, health and IT industries have been chomping at the bit to get their portion of $27 billion in federal incentive payments for the implementation of electronic health records (EHRs). On July 13, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced final rules for the "meaningful use" of EHRs.
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By Ernie Bush July 29, 2010 | Bush Doctrine | Although probably not the best topic for your next neighborhood barbecue, the question of which new technologies may contribute to developing safer medicines makes for interesting debate over a beer
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African Genome ProjectThe Wellcome Trust and the National Institutes of Health have launched The Human Heredity and Health in Africa Project (H3 Africa), a $38 million partnership to study how genes and the environment, including diet, work together to affect
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By Ben Langmead July 29, 2010 | According to Gartner, the impact of a new technology follows a “hype cycle,” which begins with the “technology trigger,” proceeds through the “peak of inflated expectations,” then the “trough of disillusionment,” the “slope
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By John Russell July 29, 2010 | The Russell Transcript | Is it time for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to relinquish its role as the sole arbiter of drug efficacy and to focus instead on its original
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The challenges facing the primary producers of workflow and pipeline software—Accelrys and InforSense—may not be so much with each other as evolving in step with pharma’s needs. By John Russell July 26, 2010 | It’s tempting to paint the commercial workflow
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The competition’s goal is to improve scientific utility of genomics data. By Kevin Davies July 26, 2010 | In an effort to challenge the life sciences community to create more informative and accessible ways to look at the wealth of
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DIA 2010 proved positive and hopeful. By Ann Neuer July 26, 2010 | The 46th Annual Meeting of the Drug Information Association (DIA) held in Washington, D.C. sported a decidedly optimistic tone. Exhibitors claimed to have more traffic at their
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By Ricki Lewis Patient success stories drive gene therapy forward.July 26, 2010 | WASHINGTON, DC—Like the mythical Phoenix that springs anew from its ashes, gene therapy shows signs of re emerging with a stockpile of safer and more efficient viral
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Judges’ Prize Winner goBalto Project The fastest, most effective way to connect with life science service providers By Deborah Borfitz July 26, 2010 | The online portal goBalto.com is the quintessential Silicon Valley start up, run by eight passionate, mostly
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July 26, 2010 | Last April, we handed out the Bio•IT World 2010 Best Practices Awards at a lavish awards ceremony in Boston during the Bio IT World Conference & Expo. Last October groups were invited to submit outstanding and
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San Jose Mercury News | In an undercover federal sting made public on Thursday, two Bay Area personal genomics companies were among four firms found to offer information that is "misleading and of little or no practical use" to consumers who purchase their tests to gain insight into their health risks.
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The Role of Analytics in Transforming Healthcare Oracle Sharing many of the data challenges and opportunities faced by Healthcare, the Life Sciences industry remains focused on delivering new, innovative therapies and solutions to patients in a cost effective, timely
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Bio-IT World Weekly Update: Jul 20
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Bio-IT World Weeky Update: Jul 13
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Commentary | Pharmaceutical and health care professionals are often faced with mishandled information, fines, and the resulting patient outrage. Fortunately, there are three ways professionals can avoid facing the same situation: Setting the security bar higher, securing data prior to shipment, and obtaining frequent third-party verification.
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Bio-IT World | The 46th Annual Meeting of the Drug Information Association (DIA) held last month in Washington, D.C. sported a decidedly optimistic tone. A whole host of sessions and exhibits highlighted strategic partnerships among multiple stakeholders, the growing role of payers and comparative effectiveness research, electronic health records, continued globalization, and of course, the latest technological solutions.
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Bio-IT World Weekly Update: July 6
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Bio-IT World Weekly Update: June 30
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The Role of Analytics in Transforming Healthcare Sharing many of the data challenges and opportunities faced by Healthcare, the Life Sciences industry remains focused on delivering new, innovative therapies and solutions to patients in a cost effective, timely and safe way. With spiraling R&D costs, new methods such as adaptive trials, and never ending need for deep pharmacovigilance, the Life Sciences companies that effectively use analytics to explore, monitor and optimize their business will rapidly become the new leaders. Oracle’s strategy—built upon Enterprise Health Analytics and Health Data Warehouse Foundation—provides a powerful, practical, and extensible approach to delivering the IT analytics infrastructure required to confront the worldwide healthcare challenge.
BPM-Based Case Management Approach to Optimizing Clinical Trial Efficiency Business Process Management (BPM) software offers liberation in the planning and management of clinical trials today. SmartBPM provides the components for automating critical clinical trial processes ranging from protocol development and patient enrollment to site management and investigator payments. Advantages are: - Potentially stunning return on investment at multiple levels.
- A 500%, or better, increase in application development time by directly executing business requirements
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Next-gen Cloud-based eClinical New technologies are available to leverage Cloud Computing in managing clinical trial data. This paper discusses a next generation eClinical
platform that: - Speeds trial set up
- Accommodates changes with zero downtime
- Integrates effectively with other clinical trial technology systems
It is offered with either software-as-a-service (SaaS), or turnkey infrastructure options in which the user organization operates their own cloud using their IT teams, within their data centers. Read this paper to learn and decide how best to leverage cloud computing’s many strengths for your organization’s particular needs.
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Bio-IT World proudly presents the Bio-IT World Web Symposia Series covering a broad array of topics within the life sciences and drug development enterprise.
Leveraging BPM to Increase Efficiencies in Clinical Trial Case Management
August 3, 2010 | 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. EST
Sponsored by: Pegasystems
Program Details | Register Here
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