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Epocrates Coming to an iPhone Near You |
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Q&A: Integrated Diagnostics Tools Will Change Healthcare. |
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Epocrates Coming to an iPhone Near You
By Neil Versel, contributing editor
By popular demand, the Epocrates drug-reference database will soon be among the first batch of non-Apple software available for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Epocrates, of San Mateo, Calif., participated in the March 6 kickoff event for the public release of the iPhone Software Development Kit, and has already optimized the free version of its online drug reference for the iPhone Web browser mostly because physicians have been clamoring for it.
I did not anticipate the amount of physician interest in the iPhone, Epocrates VP for strategic partnerships Michelle Snyder said at last months Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference. More...
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Executive Q&A
Siemens Says Integrated Diagnostics Tools Will Change Healthcare
By Cindy Atoji
Thomas Miller has a vision for a new health care frontier that combines molecular imaging, molecular diagnostics, and informatics. Miller, who is CEO of workflow and solutions for Siemens Healthcare, says recent advances in these fields have created precise diagnostic tools capable of assessing and treating a growing number of diseases. These new tools provide physicians with an understanding of diseases at the molecular or genetic level, enabling them to tailor effective treatment to the individual. Digital HealthCare & Productivity recently spoke with Miller about how the health care IT network can become more efficient by using these patient-centric medical tools that transform data into knowledge.
DHP: Can you tell us about this change in R&D?
MILLER: Health care is evolving, entering a new era, one created through the marriage of in vivo and in vitro diagnostics, arming physicians with the tools that enable early intervention and treatment in a way that improves clinical efficiencies, effectiveness, and outcomes. This includes collaboration between radiology, pathology, and informatics to integrate molecular imaging with relevant molecular diagnostics services. Traditionally, imaging and molecular diagnostics have been specialty silos, but now technological advances are breaking down these walls, for example, the electronic patient record. In vitro diagnostics and medical imaging can be integrated in such a way that 1+1+1 will be more than three. More...
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Deals, Deployments, and Short News
By Allison Proffitt, Digital HealthCare & Productivity staff
Microsoft announces its health care user group awards, IBM debuts the Virtual Healthcare Island, HL7 releases key initiatives for 2008. More...
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Troubled United Healthcare Gets Thumbs Down from Hospital Execs
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Nova Scotia Embarks on Province-wide EHR
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Opinion: Why Use Electronic Records?
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WellPoint Cuts 2008 Outlook, Sending Health Stocks Down
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Parkland Outsources I.T. Functions
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Senate Budget Resolution Makes Room for Health IT
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Tool Offers Improved Method for Calculating Fracture Risks
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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/
GNS Biotech - Software Engineer, User Interfaces and Visualization
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. http://www.gnsbiotech.com/careers/openings/
GNS Biotech - Software Engineer, Platform Development
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. 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. http://www.gnsbiotech.com/careers/openings/
GNS Biotech - Computational Scientist, Discovery Biology
Candidate will reverse engineer models from large coherent data sets. In addition, 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. http://www.gnsbiotech.com/careers/openings/
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InforSense Translational Research Symposium, May 2,2008, Boston, MA
Health 3.0 Summit, May 4-7, 2008, Las Vegas, NV
The World Congress Leadership Summit on Consumer Connectivity, May 6th, Boston, MA
The First International Workshop on Label-free biosensing April 8-9, 2008, Enschede, The Netherlands ,
BioInformatics Asia 2008, April 14-17, Singapore,
The Post-Approval Summit May 14-15, 2008, The Conference Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
The 1st Symposium on Protein Tomography -- May 1, 2008, Boston, MA
Med-e-Tel, The International Educational and Networking Forum for eHealth, Telemedicine and Health ICT, 16-18 April in Luxembourg.
TEPR 2008 -- May 17-21, 2008 Ft. Lauderdale,FL
Laboratory Informatics -- March 25-April 3, 2008, San Francisco CA.
Best Practices Awards Program -- April 29, 2008, Boston, MA
MIT Professional Institute 2008 Short Courses, Cambridge,MA
GOT Summit: Getting Optimized Tools for Diagnostics - May 19-21, 2008, Boston,MA
Bio-IT World Conference & Expo , April 28-30, World Trade Center, Boston, MA
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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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