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A 2011 Wakeup Call for Pharmaceutical Companies
Challenges are not new to the pharmaceutical industry. Will pharmaceutical companies get a break in 2011? What are the trends that are impacting the pharmaceutical industry? Here are our predictions for 2011
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Tech@State: Oh, the Places We STILL Need to Go...
The fact that the State Department hosted a conference last week on open source shows how far the U.S. Federal Government has come in terms of tech policy. Yet the content at Tech@State: Open Source often illustrated that the road ahead is still long and arduous.
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IBM's Watson Goes From Jeopardy To Medicine
IBM's "Watson" supercomputer is on a roll. After beating a pair of previous Jeopardy champions handily this week, Watson is taking on the world of medicine, IBM announced Thursday. Big Blue officials said that the company will work with voice recognition firm Nuance Communications (NASDAQ: NUAN) to integrate the smaller company's voice technologies into Linux-based Watson in order to help adapt it for use in the healthcare industry.
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Open Source Go-To-Market Success: Liferay CEO Bryan Cheung (Part 1)
Bryan Cheung is the CEO and co-founder of Liferay. Drawing on his technical experience, understanding of customer needs, and a passion for end users, Bryan leads Liferay in meeting its commitment to deliver focused and effective business solutions to its customers and its community.
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Three-dimensional structure generators of drug-like compounds: DG-AMMOS, an open-source package
This article reviews the algorithm and validation of the open-source software DG-AMMOS, a tool that generates the 3D conformation of small molecules using distance geometry construction and molecular mechanics optimization comparing its performance with some related free and commercial packages.
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CDRI to lead consortium to develop malaria drug
The Central Drug Research Institute, which is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, will lead the Open Source Drug Development (OSDD) for malaria in the country.
OSDD is a consortium of institutes under the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, which have come together with the aim of developing new and affordable drugs for various diseases prevalent in the country.
OSDD for tuberculosis was started some two years ago by CSIR, and it has more than 700 scientists from across the country working for the development of a new drug for tuberculosis. Read More »
CDRI to be Leading Institute in Developing Anti-malaria Drug
Stating that the last drug approved by the Drug Controller General of India was developed at CDRI in 2000, Tushar KantiChakraborty, director, CDRI, said that stringent regulatory guidelines to complete the safety, regulatory and clinical studies on new molecules in the country has made it increasingly difficult and time consuming to develop new drugs. Read More »
CDRI Leads Open Source Drug Development for Malaria
The Central Drug Research Institute will lead the OSDD for malaria in India. The CDRI is celebrating its 60th anniversary.
Open Source Drug Development
Taking a cue from open source models pioneered ininformation technology (web technology and Linuxoperating system) and in biotechnology, (human Genome Sequencing), and applying it to discovery of new drugs, CDRI has launched Open Source Drug Development for tropical disease. Read More »
ClearHealth, the First Open Source EHR Meaningful Use Certified
I am happy to report (a little late) that ClearHealth is now the first commercial Open Source EHR product to be meaningful use certified. Read More »
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Open Source, Open Standards, and Health Care Information Systems
We analyze alternative licensing and software development models, as well as the role of standards. We describe how licensing affects development. We argue for the superiority of open source licensing to promote safer, more effective health care information systems. We claim that open source licensing in health care information systems is essential to rational procurement strategy.
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Direct Gathers Steam
Recently, the AAFP and Surescripts announced Physicians Direct, a secure messaging service for providers. Think of the implications of this. One of the largest PHR providers in the country is on the network, one of the largest network of doctors is on this network. We are watching the birth of the Health Internet.
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Axial Exchange Raises $1.15M for Healthcare Information System
Axial Exchange, a company selling technology to increase medical efficiency by making sure doctors and patients have the information they need, has raised $1.15 million from a $1.5 million share offering, according to a regulatory filing.
The Technology Patch for Health Care Woes
The U.S. spends more per capita on healthcare than any other country. Yet, a 1999 report from the Institute of Medicine called To Err is Human found medical errors to be responsible for approximately 98,000 deaths in the U.S. every year. To put this in perspective, the number of deaths attributed to medical errors is about the equivalent to crashing a fully loaded 747 every day for a year. Read More »
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Open Source Obama
Every day, tens of thousands of developers from businesses, colleges, and homes contribute patches or new code to open-source programs. It’s not every day though that the White House does it. That’s exactly what happened last week when the White House’s New Media Director Macon Phillips announced the White House’s second code release to the open-source Drupal content management system (CMS). Read More »
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Misys Takes an Open Source Approach to Healthcare Interoperability
One of the biggest hurdles the healthcare industry has faced in its march toward increased efficiency is interoperability – interoperability in sharing patient data between provider offices and hospitals and interoperability in tying together related services required for patient care. Read More »
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