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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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
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
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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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
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
Thanks to Dr. Crounse for previewing some of this at the HUG meeting in Redmond recently, we have already had a preview of how some of this new technology works with healthcare, like folding proteins on Surface for example. More can be read here with videos to watch and download. Follow...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 09-25-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Windows Mobile, Microsoft/Windows News, Genomics, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, Common User Interface, MIT, Surface Technology
This is hot stuff! Recently I had an in depth interview with Dr. Patrice Milos, Chief Scientific Officer at Helicos discussing genomics and where the future is going. Helicos has the software and the genomics machine, and wouldn't this be a nice addition to run on Surface. This...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 08-27-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Microsoft/Windows News, Hospital, Genomics, healthcare, microsoft, Surface, Cardiology, Touch Screen, HIMMS, Surface Technology, Helicos, Heart Transplant, MSDN, Scripps, Healthblog
The videos are well worth watching as well as fascinating. These are not just "techs" working at the labs, they are physicians, PHDs, etc. that are working on the healthcare items. These are just a few screen shots from the videos. There's all kinds of interesting projects...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 08-18-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, Genomics, healthcare, microsoft, PACS, Radiology, software, DNA Testing, HIV Research, Microsoft Labs