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Health Care & Health-IT Under Obama
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | WASHINGTON—The election of Barack Obama as president and the solidification of the Democratic majority in Congress clearly will have an effect on the national health care agenda for 2009, but some of the reasons might not be so obvious.
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Health IT Certification Moves Forward
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | WASHINGTON—The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) is turning its attention to medical specialty boards in its bid for recognition of clinical informatics as a distinct medical subspecialty, following the approval of detailed plans for physician informatician training and competency.
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Fed Report Calls on NIH to Blaze Personalized Medicine Trail
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | It’s a busy time on the personalized medicine front. The recently-released federal government report, Priorities for Personalized Medicine, is gradually attracting attention. The state of Wisconsin last week jumped into the race to become a center for personalized medicine. And a group of technology providers has joined Scripps Translational Science Institute (STSI) to study to what extent people make behavioral changes when they are provided with genetic screening and information about their various risk factors.
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Certifying PHRs
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | The first set of certification criteria for personal health records (PHRs) products will focus more on privacy, security, and interoperability with other health-IT and less on specific functionality in an effort to foster innovation in a relatively new market segment, according to the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT).
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CCHIT Certifies EHRs and HIEs
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | On Tuesday, CCHIT said that eight ambulatory electronic health records (EHR) products earned full certification under the new 2008 criteria for interoperability. Tomorrow, CCHIT will open the first-ever application period for certification of health information exchanges (HIE).
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Warfarin Test: Who Should Pay for Personalized Medicine?
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | Payers, physicians, and the pharmaceutical industry are closely watching CMS deliberations over whether or not to pay for a genetic-based test that provides guidance on Warfarin dosing. The FDA, which approved the test, says it’s an important tool, but the CMS isn’t so sure and opened a National Coverage Analysis (NCA) on the subject in August.
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Privacy Certification Program Aims to Ensure Patients’ Trust
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | A former senior advisor in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is heading up the first large-scale effort to certify health-IT products for adherence to privacy standards.
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Lively Debate at HIPAA Summit at Harvard
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | Are patient privacy rules effective? The answer is not a simple yes or no. “It’s working, but it’s got a ways to go,” suggests William Braithwaite, chief medical officer of San Diego-based security and identity management company Anakam.
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Karen Trudel of CMS Talks about HIPAA Audits and NPI Issues
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | In the wake of one of the largest fines levied by HHS for a HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) violation, HIPAA official Karen Trudel says to expect further audits and enforcement proceedings as federal officials begin to extend compliance reviews.
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Security Features Not Limited to Paper
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | Electronic prescribers who want to print prescriptions for Medicaid patients no longer will have to spend up to 10 times the cost of plain paper to comply with new tamper-resistance regulations, the result of intense negotiations between government officials, medical societies, the pharmacy industry, paper manufacturers, and two health-IT advocacy groups.
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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
Predict or Perish! Shaping the Practices of Clinical Trials
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Predictive Analytics are a key differentiator in running your clinical trials successfully through 2010 and beyond. They will help you to optimize your patient enrollment, reduce your clinical operations costs and minimize your financial liability in the clinical supply chain. In this session, you will:
• Learn what predictive analytics are and what they are not
• Understand why you need predictive analytics to run your clinical trials, and
• Explore how predictive analytics will shape the future of clinical trials
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