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We are the Internet: Applying the “Internetness of Things” to the Life Sciences Industry
However, the pharmaceutical industry continues to search for new and creative ways to push the boundaries of what the Internet can do. One of these methods is known as the Internet of things, which is connecting everyday ordinary items, such as groceries, vehicles, or even our own bodies, to the Internet, thus creating an interconnectedness of all things.
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Developing Open Source and Open Government at Tech@State
Open source technology and collaborative models will matter in media, mapping, education, smarter cities, national security, disaster response and much more in 2011 and beyond. The success of open source in building systems that work at scale offers an important lesson to government leaders as well: to meet grand national challenges and create standards for the future, often it’s best to work collectively on them. Read More »
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Sutter, UC Davis Doctors Share Electronic Medical Records
As the push grows for hospitals, doctors and other health care providers to go paperless, the barriers that prevent wider use of electronic health records are slowly coming down. Sutter Health and UC Davis Health Systems, two of the capital region's largest medical providers, have joined forces to allow their doctors to instantly share confidential electronic medical charts across both systems.
The cooperation is an important development in advancing the use of electronic health records, which have the potential to revolutionize patient care, experts say.
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Northrop Grumman introduces national health data repository
Northrop Grumman has launched the National Level Repository (NLR) in support of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' initiation of registration for the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs. The National Level Repository provides CMS with flexible data management solutions as the requirements under the EHR Incentive Programs continue to develop and mature. Read More »
HHS Wants to Be a 'Data Sugar Daddy'
The State Department's Office of eDiplomacy hosted a conference Friday that sought to connect technology innovators with those interested in "diplomacy and development to enable 21st century statecraft." More than 300 people from federal agencies and the private sector attended Tech@State, held at the agency's Harry S. Truman Building in Washington. The focus was on open source software.
A few noteworthy items from the conference: Read More »
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Mirth Corporation Offers Support For Health Information Exchange In Florida
Mirth Corporation, provider in commercial open source healthcare information technology, has announced that its healthcare interoperability suite has been selected for supporting the planned statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE) initiative in Florida, whereby the statewide individual healthcare providers and practices would be provided with the Mirth technology delivered on the Mirth appl Read More »
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Canada Health Infoway investing in mobile accessibility for EHRs
Canadian healthcare may be ready to go mobile. Canada Health Infoway, the national government's electronic health record development organization, will invest $45 million to create "consumer health solutions" to allow patients to access their EHR records through mobile devices like smartphones. Read More »
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Hoffmann And Jeon On Using ICT For Clean Water In Kibera
The February 10 Liberation Technology seminar titled, Can ICT Improve Clean Water Delivery Systems in Slums? Lessons from Kibera was led by two Stanford students, Katherine Hoffman, M.A. Candidate in International Policy Studies and Global Health together with Sunny Jeon, PhD candidate in Political Science... Read More »
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Lilly CEO Says Industry, Public Policy Must Pave Way For Innovation
A new approach to research, along with public policies that support medical innovation, will help biopharmaceutical companies address stubborn diseases with potentially devastating personal and financial consequences, such as cancer and Alzheimer's disease, according to John Lechleiter, Ph.D., chairman, president and CEO of Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY). Read More »
Open R&D Challenges Big Pharma Innovation
When he's not at his day job as head of clinical development at private equity concern Celtic Therapeutics, he's trying to fix our broken system of drug development by launching Transparency Life Sciences, an open-source drug development enterprise. His concept of "open" goes beyond computer code. He's reaching past software programmers and drug researchers to statisticians, patient-engagement web sites like Cure Together, and patient-driven disease-specific databases.
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Mirth Technology to Power Statewide Health Information Exchange in Florida
Mirth Corporation, the leader in commercial open source healthcare information technology, announced the selection of its open and standards-based healthcare interoperability suite to power the planned statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE) in Florida. As part of the HIE implementation, Mirth technology will be made available to all healthcare providers statewide, delivered on the Mirth appliance framework. Read More »
Ready, Set, Go! Innovators Set the Pace in the Race for Faster Cures
A new model for developing cures is winning battles in the war against disease in laboratories, clinics and research centers around the world. The hallmarks of this movement are collaboration and the sharing of intellectual property in a wide-open manner that cuts against the grain of traditional for-profit drug discovery. Read More »
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Health Innovation Report Supports Collaboration to Conquer Alzheimer's Disease
Radically new approaches to drug discovery and commercialization are needed to overcome drug resistant diseases and provide cures for a global population according to a new healthcare innovation reportpublished by the University of Pennsylvania.
In contrast to the slow, secretive and hugely expensive drug discovery models of traditional pharmaceutical companies, the key characteristics of this new healthcare innovation model are cross-institutional research collaboration, rapid dissemination of results, and open access to new data. Read More »
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Five Ways Health IT Will Reduce the Cost of Care
Health IT presents many opportunities to dramatically improve healthcare delivery in America, from changing the way healthcare is financed to enhancing efficiency. Jerry Buchanan, account director, healthcare technology and services at eMids Technologies, shares five ways that health IT can cut healthcare costs in the long term.
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Global Certification Forum & Continua Health Alliance Co-operate To Certify Personal Connected Health Solutions
Global Certification Forum (GCF) and Continua Health Alliance are co-operating to develop an effective certification process for wirelessly-connected personal health devices. In the mobile and many other industries, standards-based certification schemes have been proven to promote market development and growth. Read More »