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Cancer Biomarkers Make Progress, Present Challenges
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | The rush to develop effective biomarkers has perhaps been greatest in cancer and there have been notable successes. Clearly the need is great, but solid progress has also been accompanied by scientific and business model challenges
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Is This the Year of the CMIO Break-out?
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | Many health care organizations are well into the second or third phase of technology roll-out programs, and that is causing a profound transformation in some health-IT leadership positions.
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The VistA Question
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | Responding to an upcoming deadline set by Congress, the Military Health System announced last week that the Department of Defense (DoD) is looking at both VistA, used by the Department of Veteran’s Affairs, and its own AHLTA, developed by Northrop Grumman, in an effort to link the two and make them interoperable.
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Rules for EMR and EHR ROI from Michigan State Experience
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | Nailing down ROI for electronic health records (EHRs) must be a deliberately thought-out process, says Michael H. Zaroukian, chief medical officer at Michigan State University (MSU), one of the early adopters of this technology.
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Security Features Not Limited to Paper
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | Electronic prescribers who want to print prescriptions for Medicaid patients no longer will have to spend up to 10 times the cost of plain paper to comply with new tamper-resistance regulations, the result of intense negotiations between government officials, medical societies, the pharmacy industry, paper manufacturers, and two health-IT advocacy groups.
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Medicare Legislation Provides Incentives for ePrescribing
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | The Medicare program could save as much as $156 million over the next five years from error avoidance and efficiency gains from a newly authorized electronic prescribing incentive program, federal officials say.
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Speech Recognition Gaining Ground in Health Care
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | Using speech recognition not just for transcription and dictation, but also for clinical decision support will take it to the next level, says Klaus Stanglmayr of Philips Speech Recognition Systems.
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MEDecision is Just the Latest Payer-Provided PHRs
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | The pending acquisition of collaborative care management services vendor MEDecision by health insurer Health Care Service Corp. highlights a growing interest among payers in mining their vast data warehouses to create personal health records for their enrollees.
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SureScripts, RxHub Merge
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | After years of mostly not competing with each other and occasional talks of combining, the two major electronic prescribing connectivity networks, SureScripts and RxHub, have merged.
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MedeFile Mounts Media Blitz to Push Its PHR
Digital HealthCare & Productivity| With consumer acceptance of personal health records (PHRs) barely registering on the health-IT meter, one vendor is hoping an advertising blitz—and a different business model—can help move the needle. MedeFile International last week launched a month-long ad campaign on major business and news networks.
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“Storage for Science – Methods for Managing Large and Rapidly Growing Data Stores in Life Science Research Environments” sponsored by Isilon
Large and rapidly growing stores of file-based and other data are a hallmark of life science research and bioinformatics. Determining how best to manage those data stores has become a significant challenge for Researchers and IT Pros alike.
This paper is intended to:
- Provide guidance on the many storage requirements common to Life Science research;
- Explain the evolution of modern storage architectures;
- Summarize the major data storage architectures currently in use.
Additionally, it will present the Isilon IQ clustered storage product as a strong and flexible solution to those needs. Download now
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 Next-Generation Technologies Revolutionizing Oncology and Diagnostics
underwritten by Definiens
This “Briefing On” collection of Bio-IT World features, commentaries and analysis, presents some of the latest thinking on high-throughput technologies that are being applied to the fields of research and drug discovery, with particular emphasis on oncology, diagnostics and imaging technologies. Download now at no charge compliments of the underwriting sponsor, Definiens. Download This Free Paper
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This Bio•IT World Briefing On “Next-Generation Sequencing,” underwritten by GenomeQuest, Inc.,
presents a selection of feature stories, interviews,commentaries, conference reports, and editorials on the emergence, opportunities, and challenges posed by high-throughput sequencing. Covered in this collection: the launch of new platforms from Applied Biosystems and Helicos; new applications of nextgen sequencing; the rise of personal genomics; and informatics solutions to vexing problem of managing the vast volumes of next-gen data. Download now
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Storage for Science
Methods for Managing Large and Rapidly Growing Data Stores in Life Science Research Environments
Sponsored by Isilon
Large and rapidly growing stores of file-based and other data are a hallmark of life science research and bioinformatics environments. Determining how best to manage those data stores has become a significant challenge for the Researchers and IT Professionals that support them.
This webcast is intended to:
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Isilon Systems ~ Senior Marketing Communications Manager
Isilon Systems is the worldwide leader in clustered storage systems and software for digital content and unstructured data. We seek an experienced marketing communications professional/writer expert in creating and delivering effective and persuasive business communications. The ideal candidate can think at the strategic and conceptual level and act, simultaneously, as a highly-effective and productive individual contributor. The position is based in Seattle, WA. For additional information click here: Lilly Singapore Center for Drug Discovery (LSCDD) - Associate Director of Informatics
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