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Nanorobots to improve health care: Using nanorobots to deliver drugs and fight diseases is not a new idea check here or there. Of course, nanorobots floating inside our bodies to improve our health are still years away. However, an international team of American and Australian researchers is developing a nanorobot hardware architecture for medical defense...; Tags: Software, 3D, Protein, Biomedical, Health Care, Hardware Architecture, Healthcare, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-05-19
ICD-10: Turning Regulatory Compliance Into Strategic Advantage - Are U.S. Health Plans and Providers Ready for ICD-10 Adoption?: As if existing IT investments weren't a large enough strain on provider and payor budgets, the U.S. health care industry is facing a new challenge: ICD-10 (International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Version 10) implementation. In 2011, per the mandate of Senate Bill 628, the United States...; Tags: Biomedical, Health Care, Regulatory Compliance, Deloitte LLC, U.S. ICD-10 Adoption, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources; White papers 2008-02-04
A Pharmaceutical Company Uses IBM's Business Insights Workbench to Mine Vast Stores of Structured and Unstructured Data: The challenge was daunting: In the public domain alone, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office database contains more than 7.9 million full text and drawings of U.S. patents since 1976 and full-page images since 1790. In addition, Medline, an indexing service for research in medicine and related fields provided by...; Tags: Biomedical, IBM Corp., Business Insights Workbench, Healthcare; Case studies 2008-01-01
Nanotechnology and viruses working together?: You've certainly read that nanotechnology can be used for many applications. Now, according to Nanowerk, researchers from the University of South Carolina have demonstrated that one electrically conductive polymer called polyaniline PANi could be used in conjunction with plant viruses to develop new materials. The researchers have used the rod-like...; Tags: Nanofiber, Tobacco, Biomedical, Rod, Virus, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2007-12-03
Today's Debate: How deep should electronic health records be?: This came in a press release today from Arizona State University. Biomedical informatics is seen as critical to advancing "customized" medicine, in which care is tailored to specific health profiles of individual patients. It is also emerging as an essential tool in federal and state government...; Tags: Electronic Health Record, Biomedical, Health Care, Biomedical Informatic, E-health, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Business Ethics, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Leadership, Management, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-10-01

Biomedical Alloengineering Organization Uses High Technology to Provide High Touch Service: LifeNet Health prides itself on its safe, efficient, and compassionate service to donors' families, to patients, and to the healthcare professionals who perform life enhancing or lifesaving transplants using LifeNet Health allografts. To honor that commitment and improve operational efficiencies, management replaced one IT system and upgraded another to create...; Tags: Financial, Biomedical, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Finance; Case studies 2007-06-01
Biomedical Alloengineering Organization Uses High Technology to Provide High Touch Service: LifeNet Health prides itself on its safe, efficient, and compassionate service to donors' families, to patients, and to the healthcare professionals who perform life enhancing or lifesaving transplants using LifeNet Health allografts. To honor that commitment and improve operational efficiencies, management replaced one IT system and upgraded another to create...; Tags: Financial, Biomedical, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Finance; Case studies 2007-06-01
Program brings biomed practice to MD high schools: Come 2008, juniors and seniors at ten Maryland high schools will get a chance to experience what it would be like to be a forensic scientist, reports The (Frederick, MD) Gazette. The Frederick County, MD, school district received a grant that funds programs where students will be used...; Tags: Education Technology, Science Ed, biomedical science, biomedical; Blog posts 2007-01-11
MedCalc (exe): MedCalc is a stand-alone computer program for statistics in the biomedical sciences with an integrated spreadsheet for easy data input. It can import Excel, SPSS, DBase and Lotus files, and files in SYLK, DIF or text format. Special features of the program are, amongst others, lots of graphs including ROC...; Tags: Biomedical, MedCalc Software, Healthcare, Productivity; Software downloads 2007-01-10
University of Miami Medical Center Takes Patient Care to the Next Level With the Meru WLAN System: As the only academic medical center in South Florida, the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami serves more than five million people, and it has earned international acclaim for research, clinical care, and biomedical innovations. The UM Miller School of Medicine needed to provide high-performance mobility services...; Tags: Patient, Biomedical, Meru Networks, Healthcare, Leadership, Management; Case studies
International Network Services Case Study: Biomedical Research Company: A client specializing in biomedical research decided to implement a comprehensive security program to protect its intellectual property. The client develops state-of-the-art technology for analyzing and managing complex genetic information for use in biomedical research. Given the nature of its business, protecting its intellectual property is of paramount concern. Therefore,...; Tags: Information Security, Client, Biomedical, Healthcare, Intellectual Property, Security, Research & Development, Business Operations; Case studies
SAS Technology and Know-How Underpin a Master's Degree in Clinical Research at the UK's Cranfield University: The pharmaceutical and biomedical sector places a high premium on the application of practical skills and knowledge in clinical research. So how can one ensure people entering the industry have the right expertise to support such activities? Especially since today, this means having a sound knowledge of SAS, the de...; Tags: SAS Institute, Biomedical, Cranfield University; Case studies
Collaboration, Visualization Tool Speeds Vital Cancer Research at Biomedical Center: With mountains of data created daily, The Scripps Research Institute, a world-renowned cancer and biomedical research facility, needed to help scientists and doctors from a variety of disciplines link their work on potential cancer treatments with the latest research. Scripps Research turned to InterKnowlogy, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with...; Tags: Collaboration, Biomedical, Microsoft Corp., Tool, Healthcare, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software; Case studies
Columbia University Biomedical and Health Information Services (CUbhis) Uses CA SupportBridge to Help Keep Student and Faculty Computers Healthy: Columbia University's Medical Center CUMC provides world-class leadership in scientific research, health and medical research, and patient care. The mission of Columbia University Biomedical and Health Information Services CUbhis is to provide high-quality, reliable, and effective information resources and technologies. CUbhis selected CA SupportBridge Live Automation to provide a versatile,...; Tags: Columbia University, Biomedical, Health Care, Computer Associates International Inc., Computer, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources; Case studies
The Biomedical Research Integrated Domain Group (BRIDG) Model: The Biomedical Research Integrated Domain Group BRIDG model is a means of bridging various standards, different organizations and the domain of clinical research with that of healthcare. It is a domain analysis model of protocol-driven research. This webcast will provide an overview of the BRIDG, including purpose, history, status and...; Tags: Domain, SAS Institute, Biomedical, Standards, Quality, Business Operations; Webcasts
LifeNet Health: Biomedical Alloengineering Organization Uses High Technology to Provide High Touch Service: LifeNet Health prides itself on its safe, efficient, and compassionate service to donors' families, to patients, and to the healthcare professionals who perform life enhancing or lifesaving transplants using LifeNet Health allografts. To honor that commitment and improve operational efficiencies, management replaced one IT system and upgraded another to create...; Tags: Financial, Biomedical, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Service, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Finance; Case studies

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The first optical pacemaker: According to a short news release from the Optical Society of America OSA, an international team of scientists at Osaka University in Japan has used a femtosecond laser pacemaker to control heart muscle cells. So far, this optical pacemaker will only be used for laboratory research. As writes OSA, 'exposing...; Tags: Heart, Contraction, Laser, Cell, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-05-29
A robotic brain-computer interface: California Institute of Technology Caltech engineers have developed a robotic device able to act as a brain-computer interface. This is the 'first robotic approach to establishing an interface between computers and the brain by positioning electrodes in neural tissue.' According to the researchers, their approach 'could enhance the performance and...; Tags: Algorithm, Electrode, California Institute Of Technology, Positioning, Telecom & Utilities, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-05-21
Beckman Coulter Empowers Sales Force While Maintaining Control of Sensitive Information: Beckman Coulter, Inc., a leading manufacturer of biomedical testing instrument systems, tests, and supplies, is in the business of simplifying and automating laboratory processes. Beckman Coulter wanted to create an electronic SRM for its team, but needed to ensure that its information was secure. It also had to be certain...; Tags: Information Security, Oracle Corp., Sales Force, Sales, Information Rights Management, Beckman Coulter; Case studies 2008-03-01
A web blanket for weak hearts: Researchers at the University of Leeds in the UK have developed a new device which could put the beat back into weak hearts and free patients from a lifetime of anti-rejection drugs. Current implanted heart assistive devices 'function by sucking blood from the ventricles and then expelling it into downstream...; Tags: Heart, Web, Device, Channel Management, Productivity, Web Site Development, Healthcare, Marketing, Internet, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-02-15