Executive Q&A Archives

McKesson’s Personalized Medicine Prospects
Andrew Mellin, Predictive Care Solutions
Oct. 7, 2008

Pushing Personalized Medicine
Edward Abrahams, Personalized Medicine Coalition
Sept. 16, 2008

Cancer Biomarkers Make Progress, Present Challenges 
Roberto Hernán, Dominion Pharmakine
Aug. 26, 2008

Karen Trudel of CMS Talks about HIPAA Audits and NPI Issues
Karen Trudel, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Aug. 19, 2008

The VistA Question
Michael Doyle, Medsphere
Aug. 12, 2008

Rules for EMR and EHR ROI from Michigan State Experience
Michael Zaroukian, Michigan State University
Aug. 5, 2008

Storing the Data Deluge
Richard Bakalar, IBM
July 29, 2008

Speech Recognition Gaining Ground in Health Care
Klaus Stanglmayr, Philips Speech Recognition Systems
July 22, 2008

Lessons from GWU’s 30-Day EHR Rollout
Stephen Badger, Medical Faculty Associates
July 15, 2008

CMS Director Friedman Discusses MITA Progress
Rick Friedman, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services
July 8, 2008

Frank Talk from Peter Waegemann
Peter Waegemann, Medical Records Institute
July 1, 2008

Will Wi-Fi Energize the Asset Tracking Market?
Gabi Daniely, AeroScout
June 24, 1008

New Leapfrog CEO Outlines Priorities
Leah Binder, Leapfrog
June 17, 2008

ONC Plan Proposes Challenges for Implementation
James Champy, Perot Systems Corp.
June 10, 2008

Open Health Tools Hopes to Repeat Eclipse’s Success
Skip McGaughy, Open Health Tools
June 3, 2008

InterSystems Targets RHIO Market with HealthShare
Paul Grabscheid, InterSystems
May 27, 2008

ActiveHealth PHR Promises ‘Intelligent’ Feedback
Frank Norman, ActiveHealth
May 20, 2008

Bandwidth Freed by Digital Conversion in 2009 May Pose Risk to Hospitals
Tim Kottak, GE Healthcare
May 13, 2008

NCQA President Talks About the Promise and Challenges of EHRs
Margaret O’Kane, NCQA
May 6, 2008

CCHIT’s Educational Program Can Ease the Pain of Certification
Alisa Ray, CCHIT
April 29, 2008

iPhone Is the Apple of Epocrates’ Eye
Kirk Loevner, Epocrates
April 22, 2008

Mayo’s Joe Dudas Discusses Supply Chain Management
Joe Dudas, Mayo Clinic
April 15, 2008

Making P4P Work for Doctors and for Payers
Francois de Brantes, Bridges to Excellence
April 8, 2008

Xerox Tackles Document Management Consulting
Valerie Mason Cunningham, Xerox Global Services
April 1, 2008

Project Laika Leaders Provide Progress Report
Rob McCready and Tom Neal, Mitre Corp.
March 25, 2008

Health Information Exchanges Push Forward
John Loonsk, ONC’s Office of Interoperability and Standards
March 18, 2008

Siemens Says Integrated Diagnostics Tools Will Change Healthcare
Thomas Miller, Siemens Healthcare
March 11, 2008

Identity-Based Network Security Meets Health-IT Challenges
Sean Convery, idEngines
March 4, 2008

Managing Costs with Metrics
John Distefano, BearingPoint
Feb. 26, 2008

Pay-For-Performance Yields Incremental Results and Outcomes-Based ROI
Tom Williams, Integrated Healthcare Association
Feb. 19, 2008

Clinician Involvement Is Critical to Successful HIT Deployment
Liz Johnson, Tenet Healthcare
Feb. 12, 2008

Brailer’s Group Plans Major Announcements in February
David Brailer, Health Evolution Partners
Jan. 22, 2008

Forrester’s Top Health-IT Predictions for 2008 
Eric Brown, Forrester Research
Jan. 15, 2008

Kaiser’s Michael Robkin Tackles Interoperability 
Michael Robkin, Kaiser Permanente
Jan. 8, 2008

White Papers & Special Reports

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Turning Genomics Data into Practical Insight
Sponsored by SGI

With worldwide sequencing capacity approaching 13 quadrillion DNA bases annually turning genomics data into knowledge is a true computational challenge. Read this paper and learn how the SGI UV coherent shared memory platform can:  

  • Speed results time while cost competitively tackling the most difficult computational problems across all omics disciplines. 
  • Push performance by scaling to extraordinary levels, up to 256 sockets (2,560 cores, 4,096 threads) per single system (one OS image). 

Provide support for up to 16TB of coherent shared memory in a single system image enabling extreme efficiency across a wide range of compute demands. 



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New Complimentary Market Survey…
Collaborations and Communications Within Drug Discovery Research
Sponsored by Accelrys
This survey was conducted by the Cambridge Healthtech Media Group in January, 2012. It was sponsored by Accelrys related to their HEOS initiative to gather valid information around externalizing collaborative research while improving communications in the cloud. With 310 qualified industry respondents the survey findings reveal useful usage and trends patterns.  An insightful follow-on discussion and webinar related to this survey, and the HEOS by Scynexis SaaS portal is also available on the Bio-IT World website for complementary viewing.
 


Life Science Webcasts & Podcasts

medidata podcast #8 Meeting Today’s Challenges in Clinical Trial Supply Management
Sponsored by: Medidata Solutions Worldwide  

Setting up and managing the clinical trial involves many complex procedures. Among the most challenging are planning and executing the logistics of the trial’s clinical supplies. This podcast focuses in depth on the following topics which trace current practices and future evolution of this crucial aspect of clinical trials:

  • Current practices in clinical trial logistics
  • Comparing advances in clinical supply practices to  other aspects of clinical trials 
  • Where current practices fall short of meeting the challenges
  • Trends and evolving improvements that may change the way logistics are conducted

Listen Now  


More Podcasts

Job Openings

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Scientific Software Engineer
Boston MA
$70,000 to $95,000
 

Tessella delivers software engineering and consulting services to leading pharmaceutical and biotech companies. We are recruiting Software Engineersto work with skilled bioinformaticians and scientists to identify business needs and recommend and develop technical solutions. Applicants require BS, MS or PhD in bioinformatics, biology or chemistry and 2+ years of software development in either: Java, C#, C++, C or VB.NET. 

Apply at http://jobs.tessella.com   

 

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 Early Access Collaborations Managers
Oxford Nanopore Technologies is developing a novel technology, GridIONTM for the direct, electronic analysis of DNA/RNA and other analytes.  As the system approaches the market, we are building a team of technically knowledgeable, highly motivated candidates with excellent customer service and facilitation skills to join our company as Collaboration Managers.  This is a unique opportunity to work with world-leading genomics customers throughout the early adoption phase of a new generation of DNA sequencing technology.. This is a facilitative, enabling role with responsibility for managing technology development collaborations with key customers at leading genomics institutions.  It will include long term management of the collaboration plan and milestones and associated meetings and documentation. Click here to find out more and apply   

Oxford Nanopore's GridION technology, VP, Sales and Marketing Oxford Nanopore Technologies is a fast-moving technology company that is developing a novel electronic molecular analysis technology. The technology is adaptable for the analysis of DNA/RNA, proteins, chemicals and other molecules.  It is therefore suitable for use in a variety of markets including scientific research and clinical applications.  As the technology approaches the market, Oxford Nanopore is seeking a visionary VP of sales and marketing to join the senior team.  The candidate will embrace the opportunities afforded by entering the market with a truly disruptive technology that has the potential to expand the number of users and the variety of applications in each target market.  This is a rare opportunity to influence the commercial strategy at an early phase of its commercial lifetime, in a well funded company.  Oxford Nanopore welcomes applications from candidates with a track record of high-level strategic commercial  leadership, who wish to apply a fresh approach to existing markets.  Experience in Life Sciences/DNA sequencing is central to this role, however we will consider your application if you have experience of disruptive technologies in other related industries.  We are particularly interested in candidates with strong expertise in the use of digital technologies for sales and marketing of scientific/technical products.  Click to  Apply  


 

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