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Economic Strategies for Health Content
Dec 03 | Digital HealthCare & Productivity | Video | Berkery Noyes investment bank managing director, Thomas O’Connor, discusses how the economic downturn may impact investment in health content and technology companies. more

Connecting Doctors to Patients by Email
Dec 02 | Washington Post | Swinfen Charitable Trust connects critically ill patients with specialists all over the world via email. more

Interoperability Advice for the New Administration
Dec 02 | Halamka Blog | John Halamka gives interoperability advice for the new administration. more

Health-IT Essential to Personalized Medicine
Dec 02 | Government Health IT | According to National Cancer Institute center head, Kenneth Beutow, health-IT is critical to enabling complex personalized medicine initiatives. more

Health Care Storage
Dec 01 | Digital HealthCare & Productivity | Product | BridgeHead Software has announced the availability of HEAT (Healthcare Enterprise Archive Topology), a set of intelligent solutions for cost-effective long-term retention and compliant management of health care data. more

PACS Market Crowded
Dec 01 | Healthcare IT News | A new report from KLAS shows that the picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) market is crowded and competitive. more

Carestream Signs $25 Million Israeli Contract
Dec 01 | Health Data Management | Carestream Health will implement picture archiving and communications systems across Israeli Clalit Health Services. more

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Executive Q & A

McKesson’s Personalized Medicine Prospects

By Cindy Atoji

Andrew Mellin

Oct.7, 2008 | McKesson is jockeying for a prominent position in the rapidly evolving personalized medicine race, developing capabilities for next-generation electronic health records (EHRs), says Andrew Mellin, vice president for Predictive Care Solutions. The San Francisco-based health care giant formed this new group last year within the Life Sciences division, focusing in particular on tweaking its Horizon Clinicals products—decision support and physician order entry—to support advancements in genomics, genetic testing, and bioinformatics as they emerge. “We view ourselves as a catalyst of personalized medicine,” says Mellin, who spoke to Digital HealthCare & Productivity about the company’s recent partnership with Proventys, and its strategies for personalized medicine.... Read more.

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	A Rapidly Deployable Data Management System for Clinical Research Sponsored by LabKey Software The Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention (SCHARP) statisticians and internal IT staff created an Integrated Data Management System for Clinical Research working closely with open-source LabKey Server systems. The system enables collaborators to more rapidly: Analyze Validate Share datasets from labs and clinics around the world, as they are collected. Learn more about this system, and how it can be rapidly deployed. Download this complimentary whitepaper and case study.
	Applications of LIMS for Enhanced Productivity in Translational Discovery Research Sponsored by Ocimum Translational research can improve the effectiveness of drug research and target discovery pursuits. However, managing the massive amounts of data has posed enormous challenges for –omics and biorepository labs. This white paper discusses the latest developments in translational research and describes how an adaptive data infrastructure and a flexible Lab Information Management Solution (LIMS) framework can be pivotal for successful Translational Research. Download now
	Clinical Information Fusion for R&D; Sponsored by SAIC Clinical Information Fusion: Introduction Over the years, Pharma R&D;’s well established functional specific systems created information Silos that provide inaccurate, out-of-date, and incomplete data and reports. The results are missed opportunities and delays that ultimately cause missed deadlines of final drug submissions, costing drug companies millions in lost revenues. The Clinical Information Fusion white paper discusses how these information silos can be broken to provide on-demand up-to-date information supporting immediate business needs, utilizing existing technology investments, and reducing future implementation and maintenance costs. Download now

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Medidata Solutions

Rising Clinical Trial Delays and Costs - Addressing the Cause, Not the Symptoms

Protocol complexity is taking a toll on clinical study speed and efficiency: increasingly complicated and ambitious protocols are not only burdening sites and study volunteers but are also prolonging trials and increasing expenses. In response, sponsors have turned to global study placement, restructured site relationships and new site management practices, but the problem remains.

This podcast will discuss:

Why these responses address only the symptoms, not the underlying cause, of rising clinical trial delays and costs.
Results of a recent joint Tufts University / Medidata Solutions study.
New metrics benchmarking protocol design trends.
Systematic protocol design improvements and why they are essential to clinical trial performance excellence.

Speakers: Ken Getz, Senior Research Fellow at the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, and Ed Seguine, General Manager, Trial Planning Solutions at Medidata.

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