It has been a big day at Stanford with genomics, not only was the announcement made to better use sequencing to predict own syndrome, but they are also just about ready to receive their new genomic sequencing machine from Helicos. Earlier this year I interviewed Dr. Patrice Milos, Chief Science...
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on 10-07-2008
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Patrice Milos, Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Helicos Biosciences This week I had the opportunity to talk with Patrice Milos from Helicos Biosciences who has a long background in global research and spent a number of years at Pfizer as Executive Director at Pfizer Global Research and Development...
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on 08-15-2008
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New rebranding information - Allscripts had renamed many of their current products, read the entire article for additional information from the conference. BD Allscripts has decided to rebrand their “solutions”! Maybe it’s unavoidable in a time of consolidations and...
Dispute among the EMR/EHR vendors, and Misys in in the process of merging with Allscripts, so perhaps too much at once? 2 small sales of the rebranded software in the amount of time might give anyone's sales and marketing departments a little discontent. BD Raleigh, N.C.-based Misys...
In addition, Health Information Technology has a series of upcoming web events to to teach interoperability. One subject that I have written about substantially on the site here is Business Intelligence, and yes there’s a seminar for that too! Back to the story at hand, I agree, we do need...
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on 06-13-2008
Filed under: Technology, Other Items of Interest, Computers, Medical Records, EHR, Health Care, Electronic Medical Records, PHR, Heatlh IT
As many as 1200 primary care physicians will participate in the pilot program. There are 2 phases to the project and recruitment of practices will begin in the fall. So far, there’s no mention of the software to be used, and it appears to be left up to the participants selecting a certified...
The article goes into detail on the many reasons...insurers are the bigger benefactors...and some states like Massachusetts are coming up to the plate with the E-health collaborative pilot project...and one other comment of importance ..."EMRs are not plug and play"... lack of incentives from...
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on 05-11-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, EMR, medical, Health Care, Health IT, Electronic Medical Records