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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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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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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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Affordable DNA Sequencing, Improved Imaging Technologies, Move the PM Ball Forward
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | Slashing the cost of DNA sequencing is a prerequisite to making genomic medicine widely available and early this week, a new contender—Complete Genomics—emerged with a pledge to hit the $1000 genome price perhaps by this spring. My colleague and Bio-IT World’s editor-in-chief, Kevin Davies, was one the journalists to receive a comprehensive briefing and has charted the new company’s ambitious plans in an article posted online.
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McKesson’s Personalized Medicine Prospects
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | 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.
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MediNotes Acquisition to Open Doors to Physician Practices
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | With its recently announced plans to take over MediNotes (West Des Moines, Iowa), Atlanta-based hospital systems vendor Eclipsys is making a push into the fast-growing but hard-to-reach market for independent physician practices
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Global Image Search
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | It’s certainly not the first Web site to be likened to YouTube for medicine, but Medting.com—formerly called MDPIXX—might just be the first truly global online repository of medical images and multimedia for physicians. The site, developed in Spain, also includes platforms for clinical exchange and telemedicine.
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Survey Says Epocrates Enjoys iPhone Success
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | If the iPhone is the killer app that pushes thousands of physicians to adopt health-IT (see “iPhone Will Change Health-IT, Says Datamonitor”), then the Epocrates Rx drug and formulary reference might be the software equivalent. At least that’s what San Mateo, Calif.-based Epocrates is claiming, based on the results of a customer survey.
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Cancer Biomarkers Make Progress, Present Challenges
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | The rush to develop effective biomarkers has perhaps been greatest in cancer and there have been notable successes. Clearly the need is great, but solid progress has also been accompanied by scientific and business model challenges
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The Workflow Driven Lab Many companies have recognized that their internal business units operate as a set of business processes. These business processes are also called workflows. Modern Laboratories are highly suitable to this workflow driven approach. In fact, the lab environments successful operation is predicated on the successful definition and adherence to workflows. It could be said that a modern laboratory is an advanced process implementing construct. It is important that laboratory management software mirrors the process driven nature of the lab thereby increasing automation, shortening learning curves, improving data quality and increasing lab throughput. - The modern laboratory is an advanced workflow implementing construct
- Laboratory Management Software solutions should fully embrace and mirror this process driven approach
- Effective information management of workflow processes with a LIMS results in increased automation, reduced training curves, better data quality and increased lab throughput
Curing Life Sciences Data Management Challenges with Scalable Storage High performance storage systems are a given to meet today’s life sciences R&D computational challenges. But with the explosive growth in data produced by next-gen lab equipment, scalability and long-term data management issues must also be addressed. Read this paper to learn: - Why new lab equipment will impact R&D workflows
- How to avoid the hidden costs of long-term data management
- What approach you should take to accommodate today’s data while having the flexibility to scale to meet future demands.
StorNext 4.0: Technical Product Brief
Proven in the world’s most data intensive industries, Quantum StorNext is a scalable, high-performance file system which allows data sharing across Linux, Mac, Unix, and Windows operating systems and manages data in enterprise storage environments. In this Technical Brief you'll learn: - How a high-performing file system can accelerate your business
- How to simplify your data management
- How a tiered storage approach can save you money
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