Regulatory Policy

July 4, 2009

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Regulatory Policy

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Health Care & Health-IT Under Obama Digital HealthCare & Productivity | WASHINGTON—The election of Barack Obama as president and the solidification of the Democratic majority in Congress clearly will have an effect on the national health care agenda for 2009, but some of the reasons might not be so obvious.

Health IT Certification Moves Forward Digital HealthCare & Productivity | WASHINGTON—The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) is turning its attention to medical specialty boards in its bid for recognition of clinical informatics as a distinct medical subspecialty, following the approval of detailed plans for physician informatician training and competency.

Certifying PHRs Digital HealthCare & Productivity | The first set of certification criteria for personal health records (PHRs) products will focus more on privacy, security, and interoperability with other health-IT and less on specific functionality in an effort to foster innovation in a relatively new market segment, according to the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT).

Fed Report Calls on NIH to Blaze Personalized Medicine Trail Digital HealthCare & Productivity | It’s a busy time on the personalized medicine front. The recently-released federal government report, Priorities for Personalized Medicine, is gradually attracting attention. The state of Wisconsin last week jumped into the race to become a center for personalized medicine. And a group of technology providers has joined Scripps Translational Science Institute (STSI) to study to what extent people make behavioral changes when they are provided with genetic screening and information about their various risk factors.

CCHIT Certifies EHRs and HIEs Digital HealthCare & Productivity | On Tuesday, CCHIT said that eight ambulatory electronic health records (EHR) products earned full certification under the new 2008 criteria for interoperability. Tomorrow, CCHIT will open the first-ever application period for certification of health information exchanges (HIE).

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Biomarkers: An Indispensible Addition to the Drug Development Toolkit

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Spain Biotech: An Engine for Economic Change

Discover 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.

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