Collaborative Genetics, Part 1: The Ambitious Goals of Sage Commons Congress
In a field rife with drug-addicted industries that derive billions of dollars from a single product, and stocked with researchers who scramble for government grants (sadly cut back by the recent US federal budget), the open sharing of genetic data and tools may seem a dream. Read More »
- Login to post comments
CIO Says VA Must Become iPad Friendly
The Veterans Affairs Department must find a way to allow VA doctors and other field employees to use iPads and other popular electronic devices or those employees will use the devices anyway and find a way to work around VA procedures, the department's chief information officer told a conference audience Wednesday.
- Login to post comments
Latin American Conference on Health Informatics
The health IT community in Latin America will be holding a major conference in Mexico next week. The conference, titled "The Latin-American Conference on Health Informatics" will feature a large number of sessions and workshops on health IT collaboration with an impressive line up of speakers. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Latin-American Conference on Health Informatics
The Latin-American Conference on Health Informatics will be held May 17-19 in Guadalajara, Mexico. The theme of the conference is Health Informatics: Improving Quality of Care Through Global Collaboration. The day after the conference, IMIA (the International Medical Informatics Association), one of the major participants in the conference, will be holding a board meeting.
The conference will be featuring a very extensive set of workshops and presentations. This is a truly "international" conference on health IT collaboration. The conference has a strong participation from all Latin American and the Caribbean.
- Login to post comments
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.
- Login to post comments
The Future of Nursing
In a new report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, the Institute of Medicine and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation examine what it’s going to take – from nurses, hospitals, administrators, government, and other members of the healthcare team – to satisfy future demands for care.
- Login to post comments
The Big Idea: Creating Shared Value
The solution lies in the principle of shared value, which involves creating economic value in a way that also creates value for society by addressing its needs and challenges. Businesses must reconnect company success with social progress. Shared value is not social responsibility, philanthropy, or even sustainability, but a new way to achieve economic success. It is not on the margin of what companies do but at the center. We believe that it can give rise to the next major transformation of business thinking.
- Login to post comments
Producing Public Good Through Innovative Technology
We continue our series by looking at how collaborations between governments and new technologies will influence business and the community of the future...How does the new technology influence the life sciences? Is any of this relevant? Yes, on several levels.
- Login to post comments
Open Source Model in Healthcare Can Create Shared Value
It is well known that sections of society are driven below the poverty line due to unbearable costs of healthcare and medicine in India. This is largely because millions of people pay out-of-pocket in the absence of social security guaranteeing health as a fundamental right.
- Login to post comments
More Family Physicians Could Mean Lower Readmissions
Adding family physicians could lower 30-day readmission rates related to pneumonia, heart attack and heart failure, say Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center researchers in a new report in the current American Family Physician.
- Login to post comments