Executive Q&A Archives

McKesson’s Personalized Medicine Prospects
Andrew Mellin, Predictive Care Solutions
Oct. 7, 2008

Pushing Personalized Medicine
Edward Abrahams, Personalized Medicine Coalition
Sept. 16, 2008

Cancer Biomarkers Make Progress, Present Challenges 
Roberto Hernán, Dominion Pharmakine
Aug. 26, 2008

Karen Trudel of CMS Talks about HIPAA Audits and NPI Issues
Karen Trudel, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Aug. 19, 2008

The VistA Question
Michael Doyle, Medsphere
Aug. 12, 2008

Rules for EMR and EHR ROI from Michigan State Experience
Michael Zaroukian, Michigan State University
Aug. 5, 2008

Storing the Data Deluge
Richard Bakalar, IBM
July 29, 2008

Speech Recognition Gaining Ground in Health Care
Klaus Stanglmayr, Philips Speech Recognition Systems
July 22, 2008

Lessons from GWU’s 30-Day EHR Rollout
Stephen Badger, Medical Faculty Associates
July 15, 2008

CMS Director Friedman Discusses MITA Progress
Rick Friedman, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services
July 8, 2008

Frank Talk from Peter Waegemann
Peter Waegemann, Medical Records Institute
July 1, 2008

Will Wi-Fi Energize the Asset Tracking Market?
Gabi Daniely, AeroScout
June 24, 1008

New Leapfrog CEO Outlines Priorities
Leah Binder, Leapfrog
June 17, 2008

ONC Plan Proposes Challenges for Implementation
James Champy, Perot Systems Corp.
June 10, 2008

Open Health Tools Hopes to Repeat Eclipse’s Success
Skip McGaughy, Open Health Tools
June 3, 2008

InterSystems Targets RHIO Market with HealthShare
Paul Grabscheid, InterSystems
May 27, 2008

ActiveHealth PHR Promises ‘Intelligent’ Feedback
Frank Norman, ActiveHealth
May 20, 2008

Bandwidth Freed by Digital Conversion in 2009 May Pose Risk to Hospitals
Tim Kottak, GE Healthcare
May 13, 2008

NCQA President Talks About the Promise and Challenges of EHRs
Margaret O’Kane, NCQA
May 6, 2008

CCHIT’s Educational Program Can Ease the Pain of Certification
Alisa Ray, CCHIT
April 29, 2008

iPhone Is the Apple of Epocrates’ Eye
Kirk Loevner, Epocrates
April 22, 2008

Mayo’s Joe Dudas Discusses Supply Chain Management
Joe Dudas, Mayo Clinic
April 15, 2008

Making P4P Work for Doctors and for Payers
Francois de Brantes, Bridges to Excellence
April 8, 2008

Xerox Tackles Document Management Consulting
Valerie Mason Cunningham, Xerox Global Services
April 1, 2008

Project Laika Leaders Provide Progress Report
Rob McCready and Tom Neal, Mitre Corp.
March 25, 2008

Health Information Exchanges Push Forward
John Loonsk, ONC’s Office of Interoperability and Standards
March 18, 2008

Siemens Says Integrated Diagnostics Tools Will Change Healthcare
Thomas Miller, Siemens Healthcare
March 11, 2008

Identity-Based Network Security Meets Health-IT Challenges
Sean Convery, idEngines
March 4, 2008

Managing Costs with Metrics
John Distefano, BearingPoint
Feb. 26, 2008

Pay-For-Performance Yields Incremental Results and Outcomes-Based ROI
Tom Williams, Integrated Healthcare Association
Feb. 19, 2008

Clinician Involvement Is Critical to Successful HIT Deployment
Liz Johnson, Tenet Healthcare
Feb. 12, 2008

Brailer’s Group Plans Major Announcements in February
David Brailer, Health Evolution Partners
Jan. 22, 2008

Forrester’s Top Health-IT Predictions for 2008 
Eric Brown, Forrester Research
Jan. 15, 2008

Kaiser’s Michael Robkin Tackles Interoperability 
Michael Robkin, Kaiser Permanente
Jan. 8, 2008

White Papers & Special Reports

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Biomarkers: An Indispensible Addition to the Drug Development Toolkit
Examining the Potential of Biomarkers
Sponsored by Thomson Reuters

Biomarkers are becoming an essential part of clinical development. In this white paper, Thomson Reuters provides insight from experts in industry and academia, and explores the role of biomarkers as evaluative tools in improving clinical research and the challenges this presents.

Discover the potential of biomarkers to:

  • Improve decision making
  • Accelerate drug development
  • Reduce development costs


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Scientific Data Lifecycle Management: Preparing for Storage in an Uncertain Future
Sponsored by BlueArc

Managing vast and overwhelming streams of gene sequencing data today requires ultra-high performance systems and processes. With continued rapid advancement and improvements in gene sequencing, expect tomorrow’s instruments to output quantities of genomic information that will dwarf current levels. Help your organization maintain data control and prepare for the future of sequencing through this informative paper that discusses:

  • The information technology challenges of gene sequencing
  • “Intelligent” methods for data management and customization
  • System survival tips... Deciding what data to keep or delete
  • New tools to keep scientists ahead of impending data torrents


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Managed Innovation, Assured Compliance
Developing, executing and managing the transformation, analysis and submission of clinical research data with SAS® Drug Development
Sponsored by SAS
Get better products to market faster. Download this white paper to discover the top ten challenges facing life science executives and how to overcome them. See how SAS Drug Development transforms clinical data into true innovation.


Life Science Webcasts & Podcasts

Presented by Trade Commission of Spain

Spain Biotech: An Engine for Economic Change 

TCS podcastDiscover how Spain is focusing on biotechnology to be an engine for economic change through gradual internationalization, development and technology transfer.

Regional governments are actively investing in public and private biology research and promoting the creation of knowledge-based companies. Spain’s human capital combined with aggressive investment in biotech research and infrastructure has led to the creation of bio-clusters.

Today, there are nearly 700 Spanish companies engaged in biotechnology, with almost 50 percent growth in funding devoted to research. In fact, spending on internal R & D in biotechnology has grown 46 percent and is close to 300 million Euros.

Access the podcast 

 



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MANAGER, SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING & PROGRAMMING
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SAIC-Frederick, Inc has an exciting opportunity for a Manager, Scientific Computing & Programming - Core Genoytyping Facility in Gaithersburg, Maryland.  In this role, you will lead the Bioinformatics & Analysis Group.
Master’s or equivalent required.  PhD preferred. Six years experience in development of scientific programs in high-performance computing environment including five years supporting scientific research in computational chemistry, biology, or genetics, & two years supervisory experience.  View complete job posting & apply: www.saic-frederick.com. Position #146945.

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