July 6, 2008

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Make Your Data Sing – Literally
Jun 27 | Digital HealthCare & Productivity | Gil Alterovitz is pioneering efforts to turn data into musical applications that could be used in biomedical research, diagnostics, and monitoring systems. more

MedeFile Mounts Media Blitz to Push Its PHR
Jun 24 | Digital HealthCare & Productivity| With consumer acceptance of personal health records (PHRs) barely registering on the health-IT meter, one vendor is hoping an advertising blitz—and a different business model—can help move the needle. MedeFile International last week launched a month-long ad campaign on major business and news networks. more

Will Wi-Fi Energize the Asset Tracking Market?
Jun 24 | Digital HealthCare & Productivity | Can Wi-Fi push RFID into mainstream health care? Yes, argues Gabi Daniely, AeroScout vice president of product strategy, because Wi-Fi networks can be used to deploy RFID on infrastructure that’s already in place. more

Roundup of National Health-IT Week
Jun 19 | Digital HealthCare & Productivity | The biggest news of National Health IT Week happened fairly quietly, via press release: The Department of Health and Human Services announced the 12 communities for its Medicare electronic health records demonstration program. more

New Leapfrog CEO Outlines Priorities
Jun 19 | Digital HealthCare & Productivity | Pushing adoption of computerized physician order entry systems (CPOE) is at the top of Leah Binder’s agenda. more

EHR and ePrescribing Adoption Remains Sluggish
Jun 19 | Digital HealthCare & Productivity | The consensus from the “HIT/EMR/PMR Advancing Patient Care” conference is that the use of digital health records is expanding, but numerous roadblocks still constrain that growth. more

Microsoft Releases Connected HHS Framework Version 2
Jun 12 | Digital HealthCare & Productivity | Microsoft unveiled Thursday the second version of its Connected HHS Framework, which it hopes will connect disparate systems from programs within the agencies of the Department of Health and Human Services. more

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Making P4P Work for Doctors and Payers

By Cindy Atoji

Francois
de Brantes

April 8, 2008 | Francois de Brantes is a staunch believer that health information technology should be an integral part of pay-for-performance (P4P) programs and will benefit physicians. Yet a recent Massachusetts Blues study concluded that electronic medical records may not pay off for physicians, and a related study showed fewer health plans are including technology use in their P4P calculations. De Brantes heads the not-for-profit Bridges to Excellence, a coalition of physicians, health plans, and employers dedicated to providing physician performance incentives to improve quality of care.. Read more.

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Next-Generation Technologies Revolutionizing Oncology and Diagnostics
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This “Briefing On” collection of Bio-IT World features, commentaries and analysis, presents some of the latest thinking on high-throughput technologies that are being applied to the fields of research and drug discovery, with particular emphasis on oncology, diagnostics and imaging technologies. Download now at no charge compliments of the underwriting sponsor, Definiens. Download This Free Paper

This Bio•IT World Briefing On “Next-Generation Sequencing,” underwritten by GenomeQuest, Inc.,
presents a selection of feature stories, interviews,commentaries, conference reports, and editorials on the emergence, opportunities, and challenges posed by high-throughput sequencing. Covered in this collection: the launch of new platforms from Applied Biosystems and Helicos; new applications of nextgen sequencing; the rise of personal genomics; and informatics solutions to vexing problem of managing the vast volumes of next-gen data. Download now

SGI's Meeting Today’s Computational Needs for Science
The quest to better understand disease mechanisms and find new treatments is driven by new laboratory technologies and ever-more sophisticated modeling and simulation efforts. As such, life sciences R&D investigations increasingly are relying on more powerful computing resources. The challenge is how to accommodate the broad mix of applications.

Addressing this issue, this paper produced by the Bio-IT World Custom Publishing Group discusses a new SGI Hybrid Computing Environment approach. It optimally uses shared memory systems, multi-processor clusters, and FPGAs to accelerate computational workflows. Download This Free Paper

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What are the challenges facing life sciences research labs today in terms of managing their data and facilitating their translational research vision? What are the trends we are seeing for organizations to adopt informatics solutions to solve these challenges and accelerate their research outcomes? Learn about life sciences research groups that are successfully adopting a common informatics solution to enable their systems biology and translational research initiatives.

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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center: IT Business Analyst III
The Hutchinson Center is the only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center in the Pacific Northwest. Through our Tumor Research Initiative, we are finding new ways to detect tumors at an early stage. We are presently seeking an experienced IT Business Analyst to assess technology needs for the Tumor Research Initiative, and to identify and design improvements to computer based systems. For more information please visit www.fhcrc.org and search for Job# AD-21465

Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research - Part of the Novartis Research Foundation
Basel, Switzerland is looking for a Head of IT Systems & Infrastructure. You will manage a cutting-edge core server and network infrastructure, comprising Linux and Solaris, as well as a robust Windows and Macintosh environment. We look forward to receiving your application: human.resources@fmi.ch. click for more information

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