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Tight Budgets: An Unexpected Force Driving the Adoption of Health IT 30 Jul 2011 | 03:12 am
The Healthcare IT market is expected to grow at a CAGR of about 24% during 2012 to 2014. What other sectors can boast such a rate in this economy? It is anticipated to be a $40 billion industry by the...
Netezza Used by Harvard Medical School Faculty for Pharmacoepidemiological Research 8 Apr 2011 | 11:17 am
Faculty-Researchers at Harvard Medical School (HMS) practicing at Brigham & Women’s Hospital (BWH) Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics have Netezza’s TwinFin™ data warehouse applian...
Medical Loss Ratios & Outcomes Research 10 Mar 2011 | 03:47 pm
Outcomes Analysis is nothing new to healthcare payers. Like any other business, health insurers need to know whether their expenditures yield the best possible results for the health of policy holders...
Momentum in Healthcare IT & Meaningful Use 23 Feb 2011 | 04:46 am
The expectation of a reformed healthcare system driven by new technology is firmly established. The recently released IT Industry Business Confidence Index cites advances in healthcare as a key force...
New Drugs: The Future of Approval & Safety 11 Jan 2011 | 05:33 pm
2010 was a lean year for new drug approvals. The FDA granted permission for only 21 new medications…below both the 2009 and 2008 levels. Some of the most eagerly awaited approvals have been delayed. ...
Correcting Healthcare with Connected Medicine 30 Dec 2010 | 02:51 am
A December interview in The Economist with IBM’s Global Director of Healthcare Marketing, Andrea Cotter, highlighted the pivotal role of EHR’s in transforming healthcare. This comes simultaneous with ...
Analytics Turns Up the ‘Heat’ on Healthcare Fraud 25 Dec 2010 | 01:49 am
It’s been a year of steady and encouraging progress in the fight against fraud and waste in the healthcare sector. The Inspector General’s office reports an expectation of significant total savings in...
Pharma Intensifies Collaborative Research with Academia 25 Nov 2010 | 01:46 pm
The nascent trend of five years ago is rapidly becoming the model of today. More & more pharma research is focused on joining forces with universities. The rationale is simple and brilliant; With the ...
China’s Healthcare Reform: Fastest Growing Sector in the World 10 Nov 2010 | 04:12 am
The most populated country in the world is fully engaging the issues of healthcare reform. The cornerstone of the newly emerging system is patient data. The organization, storage and management of hea...
Merging Nanopores, DNA Sequencing and Cost 23 Oct 2010 | 04:17 am
The day when a cost efficient technology for reading and sequencing DNA is available may be closer at hand. Intense research is focused on refining the most promising techniques. While IBM’s DNA Trans...
