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Biopharmaceutical companies will have a solution to assess risk and track information as submitted from patients, doctors, and pharmacies participating in various research project. The FDA with all submissions requires risk assessment and in short this is a software program to allow for those studies...
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07-27-2010
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If you are a casual reader here, this may be a bit confusing with the products, but there have been two versions of Amalga that Microsoft has produced and marketed. The Amalga HIS Systems was a total EHR program from ground up for hospitals that had nothing in Health IT and was sold to the international...
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07-22-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Health IT, software, Amalga, Amalga HIS, aggregation, Amalga UIS, HIS
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This is both a continued merging of resources with the purchase of Schering Plough and better utilization of present facilities. Merck is heavy in cash resources too and a few months ago purchased Millipore in Massachusetts which is an outsourcing company involved in many areas of R and D to include...
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07-08-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, drugs, healthcare, microsoft, Pharma, Merck, Heatlhcare, Research and Development, Life Sciences, chemicals, Millipore, acquisitions and mergers
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I recently had the opportunity to spend some time discussing with Chris Sullivan, National Director, Health Provider Solutions, Microsoft Health & Life Sciences, the company’s support and solutions for small physician practices and hospitals. Electronic medical records and Health IT is foremost...
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06-25-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, EMR, healthcare, microsoft, EHR, Health IT, HealthVault, Amalga, Life Sciences, Microsoft Partners, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, Azyxxi, Chris Sullivan, Health Solutions
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Microsoft HealthVault continues to grow and recently in the news the services became available to consumers in Canada too. The UK has their own portal, separate from where we go in the US and if you live in the UK you can find the site and sign up here. Also mentioned here is the open source...
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06-22-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, PHR, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, NHS, Open Source Software, CodePlex, portal
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This point was made by Juan Enriquez, managing director at Boston-based Excel Venture Management, and a director at biotech Synthetic Genomics Inc. and I agree with him. I look at the “glut” of software in healthcare not only from the medical records side of the business, but also the analysis...
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05-29-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, DNA, Genomics, healthcare, microsoft, Genes, Surface, software, Coding, Helicos, Life Sciences, Rosetta, Trento Centre, venture capitalist, CURES, synthetic cells, Juan Enriquez, hack
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The technology is hot and you can watch the video below with folks taking their phone and pointing and aiming for instant information. Below you can see if you have not already caught my thoughts for their use in healthcare, which we need now for safety, recalls, etc. It would certainly be...
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05-26-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, tags, Mobility, FDA, cell phones, Devices, information, conventions, booths
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Now the big job is to get an open ear from the FDA too so all device companies, drug companies could maintain a synchronized data base and this could even go up into a cloud depending on design. Just think the FDA having an automated update system with alerts so they too could know in real time...
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05-21-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, EHR, Surface, PHR, FDA, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, RFID, Heatlhcare, Safety, Microsoft Tags, Connected Conference
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I use both and started with the Office Live/Small Business beta a while back. So far it has been great and wonder around the web and try a lot of services, etc. so I have gone through the transitions as it has evolved. When at home or in the office, sure I like to have my desktop Office. ...
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05-13-2010
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Filed under: Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Outlook, software, Office Live, Word, Office, Excel, Office Starter, Powerpoint
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Bill Gates is back with investing and from last year the Gates Foundation dumped most of their investments in Pharma, Biotech and other healthcare companies. Now he returns, but what is the area of investment – software, what he knows best of course. Schrodinger LLC, is the name of the company...
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04-28-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, microsoft, software, Bill Gates, Algorithms, Drug Development, healthcare reform, start up, Schrödinger
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This was a while back when I first blogged about this device from Microsoft Research and now it’s out there for purchase, the Vicon Revue. It also relates body measurements at the same time, so we have a couple things going on here. It is not cheap though and priced around $800.00. Battery...
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04-26-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, privacy, microsoft, clinical trials, Congress, Algorithms, camera, monitors, devcies that report data, memory loss, Revue, Vicon, activity, data analysis, photos, tech denia
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This is a nation-wide student competition currently underway that inspires students to use technology to help solve some of the world’s toughest problems from Microsoft. You can visit the website and take a look and see what is going on. Below are 3 projects, all having to do with Healthcare...
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04-21-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Heatlh IT, software, Students, diseases, illness, competition, Imagine Cup
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Mr. Gates says this is his first college talk since leaving Microsoft. “Are the brightest minds working on the most important problems” is one of his big questions. Just take a look at the CEOs out there today and that answers that question (my opinion). The first video starts...
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04-20-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Education, Science, Economics, University, Bill Gales, Bill and Medinda Gates Foundation, Berkely, global inequities
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I like to occasionally talk about Netflix here as they server to be a good example of gathering intelligence for entertainment; however, those same “learning” techniques could also be employed in healthcare. Netflix does a good job with their algorithms to find out what people like. If a...
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04-20-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Silverlight, PHR, Algorithms, Sepsis, Vanderbilt University, Rankings, Netflix, healthcare reform, preferences
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This is pretty cool so you could forget the mouse and keyboard, get that arm in action. Bad news is though is that it won’t be ready for prime time until a couple of years so until them we have tablets and speech recognition to get through. It will work with communicating with a mobile device...