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Dell Services Help Worldwide Medical Research Company ICON Clinical to Speed Its Software Image Updating Process by 50 Percent

Many of the world's top pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies depend on ICON Clinical plc ICON for strategic development, management, and analysis of programs that support clinical development - from compound selection to Phase I-IV clinical studies. ICON currently has over 7,000 employees, operating from 71 locations in 38 countries. Updating...

Tags: Software, Dell Computer Corp., Medical Research, ICON, Tools & Techniques, Management

Case studies 2009-05-01

UK Biobank Records Data on the Health of 500,000 Individuals for Groundbreaking Medical Research

UK Biobank wanted to build a secure repository for long-term storage and protection of confidential medical, health, and lifestyle data collected on 500,000 study participants and create a single, consistent electronic record for each individual that complies with the Health Level 7 Version 3 (HL7v3) protocol for the format, content,...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Health Care, Medical Research, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources

Case studies 2009-04-01

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Speeds Medical Research With Advanced Data Warehouse

In the quest for more effective cancer treatments, researchers face a fundamental challenge: how to make sense of mountains of scientific and clinical data and find clues buried in them. The Human Genome Project, an unprecedented program that resulted in a map of the human genome and opened up limitless...

Tags: Data Warehouse, Oracle Corp., Medical Research, Biotechnology

Case studies 2009-02-01

Is medical research a Madoff fraud?

Is medical research a Madoff fraud?I believe this completelyIt is unbelievable that with all this modern technology and medical skill, we can't design a vaccine for West Nile, Lyme Disease, Hanta Virus, AIDS... nothing.It would an interesting study to compare medical breakthroughs between 1900-1950 and 1958-2008; compare drug discoveries, basic...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Litigation, Madoff, medical research

Discussion threads 2008-12-31

Is medical research a Madoff fraud?

Her conclusion -- "a need for the medical profession to wean itself from industry money almost entirely." Doing that may cost as much to doctors and researchers as Madoff cost foundations and investors. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Fraud, Medical Research, Madoff, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-12-31

Quesgen Systems: Using the Vyatta Open-Source Router and Firewall to Secure Hosted Medical Data

QuesGen provides a hosted online application for clinical researchers to share and manage medical research data. The QuesGen service is an innovative application for medical researchers to manage study data simply and securely over the Internet. When building the service, CEO was familiar with Linux servers and hosting environments and...

Tags: Service, Medical Research, Vyatta, QuesGen, QuesGen Service, Firewalls, Network Security, Security, Networking

Case studies 2008-10-08

We can change your cells and cure your diabetes

Transforming cells through the injection of genes is a very big deal. While it will take some time to prove, and even more time to reach the market, it's a true medical revolution. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Gene, Stem-cell, Cell, Medical Research, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-08-28

Seeking advantage in U.S. stem cell controversy

Seeking advantage in U.S. stem cell controversyAs Yoda would sayTotally agendized, are you; matter not, the facts do.Your argument that the 73 cures are bogus comes from a disputation printed in Wired magazine (odd, I didn't realize wired was an accredited medical journal). Furthermore, wired references itself as proof that...

Tags: cure, medical research, stem-cell, stem-cell controversy

Discussion threads 2007-11-27

Medical Research NoteTaker Widget 1.0 (Mac)

A wealth of medical information is currently available on the web - but not all of it is equally trustworthy or easy to access. Fortunately, an ongoing initiative at the National Institutes of Health - the National Library of Medicine NLM - has come a long way in alleviating both...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Vivisimo Clusty, Medical Research, AquaMinds Software, NLM, NoteTaker Notebook, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Software downloads 2005-05-24

Medical Research Institute Saves Time, Gains Efficiency With New Electronic Forms and Automated Workflow

Van Andel Institute VAI used time-consuming, paper-based forms for lab project requests and employee expenses. Lab project requests required several manual steps before work could begin. Paper-based forms slowed employee expense processing, which requires receipts, documentation, and signatures. Finally, VAI lacked an automated employee tracking system to expedite new hires,...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Workflow, Form, Medical Research, Enterprise Content Management

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PubSearch 1.0 (Mac)

PubSearch is a fast, efficient search tool for scientists, medical professionals and students who rely on the ability to quickly access the millions of research papers indexed in PubMed. By combining a simple, efficient user interface with fast access to the PubMed database, PubSearch lets you concentrate on finding the...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Article, PubSearch, Word Processors, Tools & Techniques, E-mail, Search, Software, Management, Online Communications

Software downloads 2009-11-13

What's up with the rabbit penis, doc?

Could it apply to......brain and spinal cord injuries? Damaged hearts, lungs or kidneys/livers? A new finger/arm would be nice for amputees etc, but the above are far more debilitating and the victims in greater need of organ regeneration.InterestingBesides the obvious medical benefits from growing new tissue and organs, another thought...

Tags: Food & Beverage, High Blood Pressure, rabbit, organ

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Canadians get a taste of American medical system with IMS Health buy

Oh the ironyJust another ironic investment made on behalf of Canadians over the years. As far as I know CPP is not investing using an ethical or green model, so there are probably lots of examples of very "un-Canadian" companies receiving investment via CPP.Not sure what your point is,...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, IMS Health Inc., CPP, Dana, drug company, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

18 truths: The long fail of complexity

Agree *****One of the best distillations of what 'risk' actually is, and why complexity exponentially increases it, I have read.But more to the point takes a realistic, rather than optimistic or pessimistic, view of how to asses it. And correctly acknowledges the 'human' factors involved in both cause, and...

Tags: Strategy, HEALTHCARE, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Photos: Emerging devices at AT&T Labs

AT&T Labs in San Francisco opens its doors to show off its Emerging Devices division, as well as some research projects around location-based services, social networking, and medical devices of the future. by CNET News.com

Tags: Photograph, AT&T Labs, Social Networking, Healthcare, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-11-05

Hippocrates works for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile)

Hippocrates works for iPhone is a collection of medical works from ancient Greece, written in Ionic Greek. The Hippocratic Corpus contains textbooks, lectures, research, notes and philosophical essays on various subjects in medicine, in no particular order. It features searchable concordance, search the complete works easily, text resizer with a...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Readdle, Hippocratic Corpus, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-30

Insurer research arm pushes comparative effectiveness

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Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care, troll, Dana

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

Document rental service brings "deep web" content to the mainstream

DeepDyve, a search engine that specializes in indexing the contents of documents published deep into a Web site, is announcing a Netflix-like service that allows users to "rent" documents such as medical journal articles on a per-use basis. The company says that there's a market of more...

Tags: Web, Article, DeepDyve Advisory Board, Channel Management, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-27

The chief value of open source

Custom code solutions...It's great you can see the code, but for companies I disagree that is a "value".What SMB has the resources to comb through thousands of lines of code to assure reliability and security? Even if they do manage to find a bug, are they going to fork...

Tags: open source, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

MedINRIA 1.9.0 (Mac)

MedINRIA is a free collection of medical imaging software developed within the Asclepios research project. It aims at providing to clinicians state-of-the-art algorithms dedicated to medical image processing and visualization. Efforts have been made to simplify the user interface, while keeping high-level algorithms. MedINRIA is available for Microsoft windows XP/Vista,...

Tags: Algorithm, Apple Macintosh, Inria, MedINRIA, Engineering, Linux, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-10-22