September 3, 2010

| Digital Healthcare

Reader Polls

Events

Top Headlines

Next 7 items >>

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.

More Executive Q & As

White Papers & Special Reports

	eClinical Trial Technologies Revolutionizing Clinical Development Efficiency Sponsored by ClearTrial This Bio-IT World BriefingON report, sponsored by ClearTrial, presents a selection of recent stories from Bio•IT World and sister publication, eCliniqua, that illustrate how new technologies and approaches can have a profound impact on the management and execution of clinical trials. Download Now
	Remote Data Capture:Acquisition and Analysis Sponsored by Oracle See why Electronic Data Capture (EDC) is gaining traction in the pharmaceutical clinical trials arena. Today approximately half of all clinical trials are conducted electronically, and the figure is rapidly rising. Report includes contributions from Oracle Health Sciences, Pfizer, PPD, and C3i. Download Now
	Breaking Through Real World Storage Barriers in Next Generation Sequencing Sponsored by BlueArc To effectively and efficiently manage the rapidly increasing needs of an NGS research environment numerous considerations for data management become important in moving today’s terabyte and petabyte levels of data. Some key concerns can include: Maintaining enough headroom to handle additional and unplanned data growth How to address mixed workloads Working with multiple file and network protocols Dealing with aging data Optimizing varied storage subsystems already in place while preparing for new floods of data to come This paper investigates trends and solutions in addressing these issues, and more, for life science professionals. Download Now

More White Papers & Special Reports

Life Science Webcasts & Podcasts

Presented by Trade Commission of Spain

Spain Biotech: An Engine for Economic Change

Discover how Spain is focusing on biotechnology to be an engine for economic change through gradual internationalization, development and technology transfer.

Regional governments are actively investing in public and private biology research and promoting the creation of knowledge-based companies. Spain’s human capital combined with aggressive investment in biotech research and infrastructure has led to the creation of bio-clusters.

Today, there are nearly 700 Spanish companies engaged in biotechnology, with almost 50 percent growth in funding devoted to research. In fact, spending on internal R & D in biotechnology has grown 46 percent and is close to 300 million Euros.

Access the podcast

More Podcasts

Related Web Sites

Market Trends

Latest Newsletters

Bio-IT Weekly Update

Bio-IT World Weekly Update: Aug 31

eCliniqua

Making sense of R&D data in a networked life science model

Inside IT

Streamlining Medical Communications- FREE Webinar

PharmaWeek

Bringing Personalized Medicine to Cancer Patients

Predictive Biomedicine

HTG Sets Sights on the FFPE Treasure Chest: Jan 27

Digital HealthCare & Productivity

Improve Research and Data Management: Complimentary Resources

Job Openings

Software Engineer – Computational Biology Center

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center seeks an Engineer to design and develop complex data analysis systems in support of cancer genomics research projects at the Computational Biology Center. Qualified candidate will have a BA, 5+ years of software development experience and expert knowledge of Java, SQL, and HTML.

Apply: www.mskcciscareers.org. Equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

Top Searches Digital Healthcare CHI's Network

Reader Polls

Presented by Trade Commission of Spain

More Podcasts

Cambridge Healthtech Institute