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Health Care & Health-IT Under Obama |
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Cerner Incorporates Genomics Into EMR |
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Health IT Certification Moves Forward |
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Deals, Deployments & Short News |
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Health Care & Health-IT Under Obama
By Neil Versel, contributing editor
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. More.
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Executive Q&A
Cerner Incorporates Genomics Into EMR
By Cindy Atoji
Many molecular diagnostics laboratories that are doing clinical genomics “try to fit a round peg into a square hole, especially when it comes to workflow,” says Mark Hoffman, director of translational medicine at Cerner, the Kansas City-based health-IT player which has been targeting this market since 2005. “They try to use systems that were designed for traditional pathology and shoehorn those into a very unique and contemporary workflow, going into contortions to do that within their information system, especially with infectious disease testing.” More.
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Health IT Certification Moves Forward
By Neil Versel, contributing editor
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. More.
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Deals, Deployments & Short News
By Allison Proffitt, Digital HealthCare & Productivity staff
New study on impact of clinical alerts; report to quantify use of home health-IT; McKesson deployments; new GetWellNetwork product; MobileAccess-Sprint partnership; and more. More.
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Last Week's Top News
Google Health Manager Discusses User Feedback
By Neil Versel, contributing editor
Google Health product manager Roni Zeiger remains highly optimistic about the fledgling but high-profile personal health record (PHR) service and data-aggregation platform, but is trying to assuage concerns about consumer privacy and tamp down expectations that the Internet search leader might be able to cure all that ails health care. More.
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| TOP STORIES FROM AROUND THE WEB |
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IT Winners & Losers in 2009
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Cleveland Clinic tests Microsoft health-monitoring technology
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The Impact of the Economy on Healt-IT Spending
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Businesses, unions, seniors urge Obama to tackle healthcare in first 100 days
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Trends in IT Outsourcing
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CMS names four PHR vendors for Medicare pilot program
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FACTBOX: Obama proposes ambitious health care plan
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Allscripts Executives Snap Up Shares
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Healthcare Tech Companies Could Benefit From Obama Plan
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Microsoft is lead developer on military PHR project
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LIFE SCIENCE JOBS
Lilly Singapore Centre for Drug Discovery - Bioinformatics Manager- For more information click here
Lilly Singapore Centre for Drug Discovery - Senior Statistical Geneticist- For more information click here
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center - Linux Systems Administrator
MSKCC Bioinformatics Core in Manhattan seeks Linux System
Administrator. Install, configure, update, monitor and troubleshoot HPC cluster, email and web servers. Master's degree and 5 years experience with HPC, network security, Postfix, Apache, Tomcat, Grid Engine, Solaris. Email bicjobs@cbio.mskcc.org or www.mskcc.org #015429. EOE/AA
MedImmune INC. - Associate Director, Development Information Systems
Associate Director, Development Information Systems (Gaithersburg, MD): Responsible for IS strategy for the global Development organization, implementation and oversight of the ongoing projects and support of existing systems. If you are interested in this position, apply online at www.medimmune.appone.com and search for Req 01124.
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FEATURED EVENTS
Super Computing ~ November 15-21, Austin, TX
Fifth Annual Molecular Imaging Week ~November 17-19, 2008, La Jolla, CA
The Next Tool for Healthcare Innovation~Nov 20, 2008 2pm EST A Complimentary Frost & Sullivan eBroadcast
The 4th Annual World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress - December 8 – 10, 2008 | Washington, DC
Electronic Laboratory Notebooks-28th to 29th January 2009, Copthorne Tara Hotel, London, United Kingdom.
The Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA) presents LabAutomation2009, January 24-28, in Palm Springs, CA.
TEPR+ 2009 - Feb 1-5, 2009 | Palm Springs, CA
The World Health Care Congress 2nd Annual Leadership Summit on Consumer Connectivity & Web Empowerment | February 23 – 24, 2009-Carlsbad, CA
7th Annual Bio-IT World Conference - April 2009
Storage for Science Seminar Series-See Schedule Here
Barnett Educational Services
Cambridge Healthtech Events
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| EDITORIAL |
After next week, we will be suspending the weekly distribution of the Digital HealthCare & Productivity eNewsletter. The DHP website, www.digitalhcp.com, will be alive and well and will continue to serve as a source for industry news and production information.
We may continue to reach out to you from time-to-time through market surveys, alerts to new podcasts, webinars, and complementary whitepapers to continue to help you with business initiatives.
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Hospital Paperwork 
No Longer Has to Be an In-patient Procedure
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How many times have you filled out that same patient registration form when visiting a doctor or the hospital? If you are a hospital administrator, nurse or registrar, you know that your patients and particularly your staff have managed hundreds of consent forms for medication, procedures, anesthesia, and HIPAA. Paperwork redundancy has become a significant bottleneck in the healthcare system. In this podcast, we’ll learn about how Adobe solutions for healthcare can help you streamline your paperwork and stop making paperwork an in-patient procedure. Download Now
Next Generation Sequencing Learn how labs can maximize  the value they receive from their next generation sequencing instruments:
sponsored by Genologics
How can labs generate value from their next generation sequencing instruments
What are the data management challenges for labs conducting next generation sequencing
What do genomics labs need to look for when evaluating lab and data management systems
How are different labs using a lab and data management system to address their data management challenges
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Software Helps Doping Control Lab Streamline Results  Management, sponsored by Waters
The Karolinska University Hospital’s Doping Control Lab tests thousands of samples annually for stimulants, diuretics, and other masking agents. Increased regulatory pressure and new technologies increased the number of samples analyzed creating data management challenges. Waters® NuGenesis® Scientific Data Management System and TargetLynx™ Application Manager software were used to reduce the time required to calculate, review and search results. Download the case study.
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Life Science Webcasts from Bio-IT World and Cambridge Healthtech Media Group
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Video Highlights
Drug Discovery, Development and Commercialization: Evolving Challenges and Opportunities
Joshua Boger, PhD, president and CEO, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc., delivers his keynote at the 2008 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston, April 30, 2008.
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Personalized Genetics: Advancements and Driving Change
Linda Avey, co-founder of 23andMe, delivers her keynote at the 2008 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston, April 30, 2008.
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The Future of Personal Genomics
A distinguished panel of personal genomics experts discuss the future of personal genomics at the 2008 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston, April 30, 2008. They include Dietrich Stephan (co-founder, Navigenics); George Church (Harvard Medical School); Jeff Drazen (editor-in-chief, New England Journal Medicine); Fred Ledley (Bentley College); John Halamka (CIO, Harvard Medical School); and Linda Avey (23andMe). Bio-IT World Editor-in-Chief Kevin Davies moderates the discussion.
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