Let’s put it another way, it can’t exist without IT. Again it all comes back to running algorithms to obtain desired results. As I have mentioned before, Algorithms is one of the hottest words right now in healthcare as we all make decisions from queried results. A while back I had the opportunity...
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on 11-25-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, EMR, personalized medicine, DNA, Genomics, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Health IT, Biotech, Pharmacogenomics, Helicos, Sequencing
Start up companies and biotech engineering is making a big calling as nobody wants or likes the formulas that crippled Wall Street any longer. There’s a lot of work in R and D though where formulas and scientific study are needed to cure diseases, that is for sure. Hopefully all our well educated...
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on 11-14-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Genomics, healthcare, Biotech, Start Ups, Wall Street, Algorithms, Engineers
I have posted a couple resources here too from past articles, Navigenics has from the beginning focused their DNA and genomic sequencing in the area of physicians versus consumer retail selling methods. This is an important area as some knowledge is certainly better than none and integrating the...
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on 11-05-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, personalized medicine, Genomics, Biotech, CME, DNA Testing, Navigenics, Sequencing, medical education
The tweezers grab a piece of target DNA and release it on-demand using a controlled series of hydrogen bonding and pH changes. The process of getting the tweezers to grasp and release. This is the first one that can grasp and release, as there have been other developments in this area...
The economy is also affecting some of the work and business design of genetic companies. DeCode is is Iceland with offices here in Illinois as well. Biotech companies are starting to feel the crunch as well, even those with breakthrough technology in personalized medicine and part of what...
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on 10-16-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, personalized medicine, Genomics, Biotech, DeCode, DNA Testing, pharamcogenomics
Recently announced is the project to begin at Scripps in San Diego as related news, coupled with the announcement of the new sequencing service that will be able to offer a complete sequence at a wholesale price may have held a bit of inspiration here for Navigenics to enter the full sequencing market...
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on 10-16-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, personalized medicine, Genomics, Pharma, Biotech, DNA Testing, sequencing services
The group has grown in 7 years from five people focused on healthcare worldwide at Microsoft; now there are more than 700. This group is for responsible primarily for the enterprise space (in biopharma and medical devices), so these are the largest customers in the U.S. I have provided a...
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on 10-09-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Microsoft/Windows News, personalized medicine, Genomics, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, Biotech, R and D, Server 2008, Life Sciences, SharePoint, Windows Presentation Foundation, HPC Server 2008