May 13, 2008

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CMS Names Six Vendors Participating in PQRI Pilot
May 12 | Digital HealthCare & Productivity | The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced the six vendors that will participate in an upcoming pilot project using Physician Quality Reporting Initiative measures, which are extracted directly from electronic health record systems. more

NCQA President Talks About the Promise and Challenge of EHRs
May 12 | Digital HealthCare & Productivity | The “Patients Centered Medical Homes” initiative is the latest tool touted by the National Committee for Quality Assurance to help drive adoption of electronic medical records says Margaret O’Kane, president of the not-for-profit NCQA. more

Deals, Deployments, and Short News – May 6, 2008
May 12 | Digital HealthCare & Productivity | Aetna sends out electronic updates; Misys signs agreements with Wolters Kluwer Health and the Daughters of Charity Health System; RelayHealth has been EHNAC re-accredited… more

SureScripts-led Coalition Launches Consumer Campaign to Jump Start eRX
May 01 | Digital HealthCare & Productivity | Expect to see “E-prescriptions filled here” and “give your prescription a head start” signs at thousands of pharmacies nationwide starting today as part of a first-ever nationwide consumer campaign to raise awareness about the availability and benefits of electronic prescribing. more

CCHIT’s Educational Program Can Ease the Pain of Certification
May 01 | Digital HealthCare & Productivity | Each year the bar is raised with updated criteria for ambulatory and inpatient EHR certification. CCHIT’s certification program director believes that newly initiated CCHIT educational programs can help guide applicants through the testing process. more

VeriChip Starts Marketing Implanted Chip to Hold PHR Info
May 01 | Digital HealthCare & Productivity | After an extensive effort aimed at implementing necessary IT infrastructure in the region’s hospitals, RFID vendor VeriChip Corp. will begin marketing HealthLink—its patient identification system—directly to local consumers. more

Deals, Deployments, and Short News – April 29, 2008
May 01 | Digital HealthCare & Productivity | Epocrates files IPO, McKesson takes over billing and collections for Palo Alto medical group; executive appointments; and more… more

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Executive Q & A

Making P4P Work for Doctors and Payers

By Cindy Atoji

Francois
de Brantes

April 8, 2008 | Francois de Brantes is a staunch believer that health information technology should be an integral part of pay-for-performance (P4P) programs and will benefit physicians. Yet a recent Massachusetts Blues study concluded that electronic medical records may not pay off for physicians, and a related study showed fewer health plans are including technology use in their P4P calculations. De Brantes heads the not-for-profit Bridges to Excellence, a coalition of physicians, health plans, and employers dedicated to providing physician performance incentives to improve quality of care.. Read more.

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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

SGI's Meeting Today’s Computational Needs for Science
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

SGI's Supercharging Proteomics Discovery
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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Emerging IT Trends for 2008

Bio-IT World Contributing Editor Salvatore Salamone discusses the major IT trends that potentially will have the greatest impact on drug discovery research in 2008.Listen to the Podcast

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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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