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Cerner Incorporates Genomics Into EMR
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | Molecular diagnostics laboratories that are doing clinical genomics “try to fit a round peg into a square hole, especially when it comes to workflow,” says Mark Hoffman, director of translational medicine at Cerner, the Kansas City-based health-IT player which has been targeting this market since 2005. “They try to use systems that were designed for traditional pathology and shoehorn those into a very unique and contemporary workflow, going into contortions to do that within their information system, especially with infectious disease testing.”
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Google Health Manager Discusses User Feedback
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | Google Health product manager Roni Zeiger remains highly optimistic about the fledgling but high-profile personal health record (PHR) service and data-aggregation platform, but is trying to assuage concerns about consumer privacy and tamp down expectations that the Internet search leader might be able to cure all that ails health care.
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Building Wireless Connectivity for Health Care
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | BOSTON—Over the next three years, wireless mobile networks will evolve from today’s technology to next-generation capabilities, with open access allowing the use of any device or application on national bandwidths. But adoption will be slow until a standardized infrastructure is created, instead of every mobile company acting as a little fiefdom.
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E-Prescribing Vendors Talk Back
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | A month ago, acting Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator Kerry Weems said that physicians can no longer use cost as an excuse for not switching to electronic prescribing. “The business case is turned around,” Weems said citing the affordability of the technology and reasonably small workflow changes it requires.
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Kolodner et al. Remain Optimistic for Health 2.0
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | SAN FRANCISCO—In a session about online clinician social networks, moderator Enoch Choi remarked that more than half the companies that presented on a similar panel a year ago were no longer in business. And yet the Palo Alto, Calif., urgent care physician and medical project manager at online health community MedHelp.org, remained optimistic that user-generated health care has a bright future.
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MGMA Meeting Pushes High Tech Patient ID Cards
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | SAN DIEGO—The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) will push the health insurance industry to standardize patient identification cards with magnetic stripes, bar codes, or embedded chips and has commissioned a study to quantify the potential savings for payers and providers alike.
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e-Prescribing Crash Course
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | Acting Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator Kerry Weems called last week’s national conference on electronic prescribing a “crash course in e-prescribing.” The Oct. 7 event brought more than 1,400 physicians, pharmacists, practice administrators, health-IT professionals, vendors, and government representatives to Boston for an intensive study of the technology ahead of a Medicare incentive program that begins in January.
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HPC Harvard’s Way
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | High performance computing (HPC) at Harvard Medical School isn’t just about IT, It’s about bridging clinical and research needs to support research, applications, and storage across the enterprise. John Halamka, Chief Information Officer at Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center painted a picture of collaboration and growth around HPC that he believes will be transformative for Harvard Medical School.
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Computer-Based Tools to Help Use Genetic Tests
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | In a new federal project to develop computer-based tools that will use gene-based tests for breast cancer, there is some uncertainty as to when the tools will be ready for prime time, or clinical practice. The $1 million project, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), aims to create four computer-based clinical decision-support tools (CDS) to help clinicians and patients use genetic tests to evaluate and treat breast cancer.
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CMS Focuses on E-Prescribing
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | BOSTON—With less than three months to go before Medicare starts paying incentives to physicians for electronic prescribing, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is working frantically to get the word out about the benefits of such technology.
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eClinical Trial Technologies Revolutionizing Clinical Development Efficiency 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.
Remote Data Capture:Acquisition and Analysis 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.
Breaking Through Real World Storage Barriers in Next Generation Sequencing 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.
Bio-IT World & CHI
Impact of the 1000 Genomes Project on the Next Wave of Pharmacogenomic Discovery
 Interview with M. Eileen Dolan, Ph.D., Professor, Medicine, University of Chicago and Speaker at Next-Generation Sequencing Data Management, September 27-29, 2010, Providence, RI
The 1000 Genomes Project aims to provide detailed genetic variation data on >1000 genomes from worldwide populations using the next-generation sequencing technologies. Some of the samples utilized for the 1000 Genomes Project are the International Hap-Map samples that are composed of lymphoblastoid cell lines (LCLs) derived from individuals of different world populations. The detailed map of human genetic variation promised by the 1000 Genomes project will allow a more in-depth analysis of the contribution of genetic variation to drug response. Future studies utilizing this new resource can greatly enhance our understanding of the genetic basis of drug response and other complex traits.
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