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Brailer Group Targets $200 Million for Early Stage Companies |
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Q&A: Xerox Tackles Document Management Consulting |
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Midland Chooses Open Source Solution for Electronic Records |
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Health Evolution Partners Aims $200 Million at Early Stage Companies
By Neil Versel, contributing editor
Health Evolution Partners, the investment management firm founded last year by former national health-IT coordinator David Brailer, has launched the early-stage investment portion of its business, with a high-powered advisory board to help find and support top technological innovations in health care.
The San Francisco-based company, which has $700 million to invest from the California Public Employees Retirement System, said Monday that it has kicked off operations of its $200 million Health Evolution Partners Innovation Network (HEPIN), an investment fund targeting at early-stage and start-up companies. Actually announced last September, HEPIN represents Health Evolution Partners strategy of partnering with other investors in financing smaller ventures. More...
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Executive Q&A
Xerox Tackles Document Management Consulting
By Cindy Atoji
In the paper-intensive health care industry, having an efficient document management strategy can cut costs, help ensure regulatory compliance, and increase productivity, says Valerie Mason Cunningham, vice president of Xerox Global Services. Cunningham says the key to smart document management is implementation changing paper to digital workflows where possible, and consolidating business processes. Cunningham, who is part of Xeroxs health care division, spoke with Digital HealthCare & Productivity about winning the paperwork battle.
DHP: Lets start with the bottom line. What kind of ROI that can be achieved from document management?
CUNNINGHAM: ROI varies depending on situation, but one example is the VHA-member organization, Texas-based Baptist St. Anthonys Health System, which was able to reduce print-related costs by 90 percent. We evaluated its multi-vendor printing and copying operations, tracking how and when copiers, printers, and fax machines were used throughout the organization. Appropriate print jobs were re-directed to the multi-function systems, saving the Baptist St. Anthony nearly $200,000. Baptist St. Anthonys is also achieving brand consistency throughout its 16 health care locations, standardizing documents and forms, and printing them on-demand. Xerox and business partner Siemens also developed a HIPAA-compliant bar code system allowing Baptist to track, index, and file clinical documents and forms.
[Few institutions] understand the full cost of document management accounts they can give you their printing costs, but cant tell you their warehousing costs, updating costs, and how many people have to touch or find the information. This can get into real dollars saved that can be reinvested into other projects. ROI can be immediate for some and in other cases [over a] period of time. Theres no cookie cutter approach. More...
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Deals, Deployments, and Short News
By Allison Proffitt, Digital HealthCare & Productivity staff
Survey shows doctors favor national health insurance, executive changes, McKesson announces acquisitions and partnerships. More
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An Open Source Solution for Electronic Records
By Adam Stone
During the search for a picture archiving system, Midland Memorial Hospital, a 320-bed system in Midland, Texas, encountered several vendors offering electronic records tools. Though tempting, prices were steep, topping $18 million on average. Shortly afterward, David Whiles, director of information systems, encountered VistA, an open source records management platform developed at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs that looked like a much more promising solution. More...
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Mayo Clinic Job #19191 - Unit Head IT
Location: Rochester, MN. Oversee software development and support for research and operational activities for Health Sciences Research and Nursing Research departments. Recruit, manage, and mentor IT personnel; provide budget administration, client/vendor management, strategic planning and project coordination, planning, and estimating. Qualifications: BS degree in computer science or similar field (masters in computer science, management or health/clinical informatics desirable), and 6+ years professional IT. Apply online at: www.mayoclinic.org/jobs-rst.
Mayo Clinic Job #19178- Unit Head IT
Location: Rochester, MN. Responsible for project coordination, planning and estimating, as well as budget administration, client/vendor management and strategic planning; plus coordinating technical resources that support research projects, journal publications, grant/contract preparation and scholarly activities. Qualifications: BS degree in computer science or a related field plus 6+ years IT experience. Apply online at: www.mayoclinic.org/jobs-rst.
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Lilly Singapore Center for Drug Discovery (LSCDD)- Senior Bioinformatics Scientist,Contribute to the development of novel algorithms, data analysis methods and software tools for drug discovery as part of the Integrative Computational Sciences (ICS) department at LSCDD. Work closely with informatics and software engineering peers at ICS, and collaborate with the Discovery IT organization in Europe and USA. The successful candidate will offer hands-on insight and expertise in tailored therapeutic informatics and statistical analyses at the post-genomic era. 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
Agilent Technologies-Asia Pacific - Job Requisition: 2021927
Job Title : Application Engineer and Implementation Specialist for Lab Informatics Platform
Location(s) : Bangalore, India. Project management: small to large scale implementations, including integration/ validation of Agilents software platform. Manage assigned customer account relationship, customer satisfaction and education of future Agilent plans. On time and on budget implementation, focus Pharma, Petro and Chemical markets. Qualifications: BS/MS Degree in Computer Engineering, or other related discipline or equivalent. Apply
Agilent Technologies-Asia Pacific - Job Requisition:2021658, Job Title : Product Specialist Laboratory Informatics Location(s) : Bangalore, India. Proactively understand customer needs and identify solutions to actively create business opportunities. Manage a complex, enterprise solution sale with long sales cycle. Develop approaches to achieve quota strategies. Lead coordinated projects across organizations. Solve complex broad range of problems. Qualifications: BS/MS Degree in Sciences, Engineering, Computer or equivalent plus 5 to 8 years work experience. Apply
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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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