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Data Security: Debate Persists Over Right Safeguard Strategy |
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Q&A: P4P Yields Incremental Results and Outcomes-Based ROI |
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Focus on Security
Debate Persists Over Whats the Right Safeguard Strategy
By Neil Versel, contributing editor
Recent laptop thefts from Fallon Community Health Plan in Worcester, Mass., and from Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey have focused attention anew on the issue of data security in health care.
In this age of identity theft, Ive actually heard health care systems referred to as one-stop shopping, says John Carmichael, a security trainer at Security Innovation, Wilmington, Mass. Health records often contain individuals names, addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, and payment information exactly the kinds of data criminals want. More...
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Executive Q&A
Pay-For-Performance Yields Incremental Results and Outcomes-Based ROI
By Cindy Atoji
On the eve of the annual national P4P conference, Feb. 27-29, Tom Williams, a major pay-for-performance backer, admits that results for physician incentive programs have been mixed. Williams, CEO of Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA), runs Californias P4P program, the largest in the country. The non-profit group is backed by all the states major health plans and involves over 40,000 physicians. Digital HealthCare & Productivity spoke with Williams about the challenges of implementing P4P and the use of information technology, a key performance measurement.
DHP: In your opinion, is P4P working?
WILLIAMS: The results have been mixed. On the positive side, weve had significant engagement from the physicians and theyve worked hard to improve the results. Weve had a number of successes, including the collaboration of plans around a uniform measure set and the use of aggregated data, which has been very powerful. When physicians know an entire patient population is being measured, theyre much more confident in the validity and reliability of the results, so that has been a big plus. Weve been able to publish, through state of California, a single report card using aggregated results.
Weve had good reimbursement in terms of incentive bonuses, including over $55 million a year in payments. More...
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Deals, Deployments, and Short News
By Allison Proffitt, Digital HealthCare & Productivity staff
CCHIT announces open survey, MIT scientists take cues from geckos, Misys releases open source health-IT, South Dakota website chooses Microsoft solution. More
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LIFE SCIENCE JOBS
Unilever - Mathematical Modeller (Research Scientist)
The ability to work in multidisciplinary teams alongside biologists, chemists and statisticians plus enthusiasm for learning new science is critical for the role. For a complete job description and to apply, please visit: https://unilever.recruitmax.com/
Intrexon Corporation - Software Developer
The software developer will work in a close-knit team to build, develop and deploy advanced bioinformatics systems in concurrence with advancements in our gene-based technologies. For a full description and application, please visit http://www.dna.com/intrexon/careers.aspx.
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The successful candidate will work closely with the internal applications team and external customers to design and develop novel visualization approaches for ensembles of biological networks and to integrate GNS solutions with existing visualization tools. For more information please visit http://www.gnsbiotech.com/careers/openings/
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The successful candidate will work closely with the algorithm development team to add newly developed algorithms into the production platform and the biological applications team to define and implement new functional requirements for the platform. For more information please visit http://www.gnsbiotech.com/careers/openings/
GNS Biotech - Computational Scientist, Discovery Biology
The successful candidate will reverse engineer models from large coherent data sets. In addition, the candidate will complete genome-wide association analysis of disease and drug-response and develop methods to deal with population genetic structure, pedigrees, missing data and computational scaling. For more information please visit http://www.gnsbiotech.com/careers/openings/
GNS Biotech - Computational Scientist, Biological Applications Candidates must have a combination of experience in the following areas: bioinformatics, microarray data analysis, algorithm development, statistics, machine learning, and network inference or reverse engineering methods. For more information please visit http://www.gnsbiotech.com/careers/openings/
Software Engineer, Bioinformatician - ISB - Job #07-052
The Institute for Systems Biologys (ISB) Computational Core seeks qualified candidates to join its growing bioinformatics team. For a full description and application instructions, please visit http://www.systemsbiology.org/careers. ISB is an M/F/D/EOE.
Bio-Informatics Scientist -Van Andel Institute -
opening at Van Andel Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Position supports collaborators using XB Bio-Integration Suite Software. Qualified candidates will have Ph.D. in molecular biology or related discipline. Two years post-doctoral training and experience in bioinformatics analysis of high throughput biological datasets. http://www.vai.org/employment/opportunities/881.
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Battle Between Best-of-Breed and Sole Source Continues
Given all the consolidation among health-IT suppliers in the last few years, more than a few big guns have assembled true, end-to-end integrated clinical and management systems. Yet the ongoing national push for data and interoperability standards means it easier than ever to knit together best-of-breed solutions in Lego-like fashion. More
IT Outsourcing: A Game of Specialization and Global Reach
The low hanging fruit was harvested in the first wave of healthcare-IT outsourcing. Now, national and global companies report the biggest opportunities lurk in niches. Moreover, traditionally entrenched players like EDS and Oracle are ceding ground to new global companies, say observers. More
EHRs Forge Links to Practice Management S/W
Electronic health records are gaining ground, but slowly. Conversely the practice management software market, though unexciting, is steady. Efforts are now on to fuse the two. More
Trends in Medical PCs, PDAs, and Portable Workstations
Do healthcare professionals in your organization want laptop computers? Tablet PCs? Plain old desktop machines? Personal digital assistants? Sure. All can work just fine in clinical environments. More
Wireless Technology Use Jumps in Hospitals
While adoption of many health-IT technologies has stalled, the use of mobile and wireless technology has soared and the choices are proliferating. More
Does Asset Tracking Live Up to the Hype?
Asset tracking has become a hot technology. Indeed, makers of RFID systems just one of the technology choices claim to provide near instantaneous ROI. Whats the real state of the market? More
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Bio-IT World proudly introduces Life Science Webcasts -- a series of informal conversations with leading researchers and executives in the bio-IT and biopharma arena. This week, Dr. Jerald Schindler (VP, late stage clinical development statistics, Merck) discusses e-clinical research with Bio-IT World's Kevin Davies.
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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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The quest to better understand disease mechanisms and find new treatments is driven by new laboratory technologies and ever-more sophisticated modeling and simulation efforts. As such, life sciences R&D investigations increasingly are relying on more powerful computing resources. The challenge is how to accommodate the broad mix of applications.
Addressing this issue, this paper produced by the Bio-IT World Custom Publishing Group discusses a new SGI Hybrid Computing Environment approach. It optimally uses shared memory systems, multi-processor clusters, and FPGAs to accelerate computational workflows. Download This Free Paper
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The deeper study of proteins and their interactions can reveal scientific information once considered nearly untouchable to scientists and researchers. Today, unprecedented advancements in computing power are enabling the creation of mounds of proteomic based data along with the accompanying bottlenecks data can create.
Rather than just “simplify the experiment” to fit the computational resources an alternative is now available with the SGI Proteomics Appliance. This complimentary white paper, produced by the Bio-IT World Custom Publishing Group, looks at ways to use the Proteomic Appliance to handle the most intensive proteomics computing tasks facing science today. Download This Free Paper
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Lilly Singapore Center for Drug Discovery (LSCDD) - Associate Director of Informatics
Lead and mentor a strong team for the Bioinformatics group at the Integrative Computational Sciences (ICS) department at LSCDD towards the development of novel algorithms, data analysis methods and software tools for drug discovery. Work closely with the Software Engineering group at ICS, and collaborate with the Discovery IT organization in Europe and USA. For additional information, or to apply visit: LSCDD Lilly Singapore Center for Drug Discovery (LSCDD) - Senior Software Engineer
Join a strong team of software engineers in our Integrative Computational Sciences (ICS) at LSCDD. Collaborate with, and help develop integrated applications to process and visualize data from cutting-edge technologies used by scientists at Lilly Research Labs (LRL) and the Drug Discovery Research (DDR) teams. The Software Engineering team provides computational tools and tailored software solutions that enable the global effort of Tailored Therapeutics; ‘The Right Drug, at The Right Dose for The Right Patient at The Right Time'. For additional information, or to apply visit: LSCDD
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