The Genomic Data Commons, a next-generation platform that enables unprecedented data access, analysis and sharing for cancer research, publicly launched at the University of Chicago on June 6, opening the door to discoveries for this complex set of diseases. The Genomic Data Commons went live with approximately 4.1 petabytes of data from National Cancer Institute-supported research programs, including some of the largest and most comprehensive cancer genomics datasets in the world...
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Embarrassing New GAO Report On Hospital Safety Has Two Surprising Bright Spots
Leah Binder | Forbes | March 15, 2016
Hospitals are flummoxed by the problem of patient safety, according to a report issued by the Government Accounting Office (GAO) just in time for this week’s Patient Safety Awareness Week. Issued at the request of ranking members of the Senate Committee on Finance and Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), respectively, the report reveals three explanations on why hospitals find it so difficult to address patient safety. I am summarizing, but I am not exaggerating...
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Epic and Other EHR Vendors Caught in Dilemmas by APIs (Part 2 of 2)
Andy Oram | EMR and HIPAA | March 16, 2017
The first section of this article reported some news about Epic’s Orchard, a new attempt to provide an “app store” for health care. In this section we look over the role of APIs as seen by EHR vendors such as Epic. Dr. Travis Good, with whom I spoke for this article, pointed out that EHRs glom together two distinct functions: a canonical, trusted store for patient data and an interface that becomes a key part of the clinician workflow. They are being challenged in both these areas, for different reasons...
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FDA Seeks Data Mining Tool to Track Adverse Drug Reactions
Joseph Marks | NextGov | July 24, 2012
The Food and Drug Administration is in the market for a data mining tool that will gather information on adverse reactions to vaccines and other drugs, according to solicitation documents posted Monday. Read More »
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First-Ever Crowdsourced Prostate Cancer Data-Mining Competition Discovery Impacts and Predicts Patient Survival
Press Release |
Project Data Sphere, Sage Bionetworks, FIMM |
November 16, 2016
Today, a breakthrough report in the international journal Lancet Oncology demonstrates how a collaborative effort to analyze broadly accessible clinical data led to novel insights and improvements in cancer treatment and management. Participants in the Prostate Cancer DREAM (Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessments and Methods) Challenge – an effort initiated by Project Data Sphere, LLC (PDS) in collaboration with Sage Bionetworks using proven DREAM methodology – developed new risk factor models for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC)...
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Genomic Data Commons Heralds New Era of Data Sharing for Cancer Research
Press Release |
University of Chicago |
June 6, 2016
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Genomics And The Role Of Big Data In Personalizing The Healthcare Experience
By Dr. Bonnie Feldman | September 1, 2013
Genomics is making headlines in both academia and the celebrity world. With intense media coverage of Angelina Jolie’s recent double mastectomy after genetic tests revealed that she was predisposed to breast cancer, genetic testing and genomics have been propelled to the front of many more minds. Read More »
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Global E-Clinical Trial Technologies Market to Reach US$1.37 Billion by 2018, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.
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Global Industry Analysts, Inc. |
July 23, 2012
GIA announces the release of a comprehensive global report on the E-Clinical Trial Technologies markets. The global market for E-Clinical Trial Technologies is forecast to reach US$1.37 billion by the year 2018... Read More »
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Google’s Mind-Blowing Big-Data Tool Grows Open Source Twin
Cade Metz | Wired | August 21, 2012
[Mike] Olson is the CEO of a Valley startup called Cloudera, and [John] Schroeder is the boss at MapR, a conspicuous Cloudera rival. Both outfits deal in Hadoop — a sweeping open source software platform based on data center technologies that underpinned the rise of Google’s web-dominating search engine — but in building their particular businesses, the two startups approached Hadoop from two very different directions... Read More »
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Hadoop Solidified for Production Duty
Joab Jackson | IT World Canada | January 4, 2012
After nearly seven years of development and fine tuning, the Apache Hadoop data processing framework is finally ready for full production use, the developers of the software announced Wednesday. Read More »
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Healthcare Internet of Things to Experience Exponential Growth
Thomas Beaton | Health IT Analytics | December 30, 2016
An increasing interest in healthcare Internet of Things (IoT) technologies that can foster patient engagement and improve patient management is likely to grow the global smart healthcare market into a $169.32 billion opportunity, according to a new Technavio report. Although organizations across multiple industries are still wary of the IoT’s potential security flaws, 71 percent of cross-industry enterprises are currently developing their IoT data stores, adds a survey by 451 Research, and the next 12 months are likely to bring a 33 percent increase in IoT infrastructure spending...
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How Healthy Are We?
Nazimun Nessa | Dhaka Tribune | March 29, 2017
Reliable data on health is an essential part of a comprehensive health information system, which is central to evidence-informed, responsive decision-making for better public health program. A well-functioning health information system also helps policy-makers and program managers to monitor population health and plan interventions accordingly. In line with the vision of a Digital Bangladesh, one of the more significant changes that have happened in our health sector is transforming paper-based health reporting into an electronic health information system, along with initiating a medical record system through the Open MRS software...
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How open source software is fighting COVID-19
By Jeff Stern | March 29, 2020
Since the end of January, the [open source] community has contributed to thousands of open source repositories that mention coronavirus or COVID-19. These repositories consist of datasets, models, visualizations, web and mobile applications, and more, and the majority are written in JavaScript and Python. Previously, we shared information about several open hardware makers helping to stop the spread and suffering caused by the coronavirus. Here, we're sharing four (of many) examples of how the open source software community is responding to coronavirus and COVID-19, with the goal of celebrating the creators and the overall impact the open source community is making on the world right now.
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How to Stop Big Data from Becoming Big Brother
Brian Proffitt | IT World | June 11, 2012
As big data and the requisite mega-analysis that goes along with it becomes more common, there is an increasing outcry from voices in our society questioning whether big data is becoming Big Brother.
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i2b2 Foundation and tranSMART Foundation Merge to Become the i2b2 tranSMART Foundation
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The i2b2 tranSMART Foundation |
May 25, 2017
The tranSMART and i2b2 foundations today announce the completion of their merger to become the i2b2 tranSMART Foundation. The new organization is a global non-profit open-source foundation facilitating the further development of precision medicine and bringing it to practice. The mission of the i2b2 tranSMART Foundation is to enable effective collaboration for precision medicine through the sharing, integration, standardization, and analysis of heterogeneous data from healthcare and research; through engagement and mobilization of a life sciences focused open-source, open-data community...
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IBM and the tranSMART Foundation Bring Translational Medicine Data to Scientists
Press Release |
tranSmart Foundation |
May 23, 2017
The tranSMART Foundation, a non-profit organization providing a global, open-source, open-data knowledge management platform for scientists to share pre-competitive translational research data, and IBM (NYSE: IBM), today announced their collaboration and the general availability of the tranSMART platform (version 16.2) on IBM Power8 servers. The translational research platform is running on IBM Power8 servers at the tranSMART Foundation's Center of Excellence at the University of Michigan. This new implementation allows users to take advantage of the optimized performance enabling them to more quickly and easily load and analyze data...
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