Thursday - May 1, 2008
Pharmaceutical companies manage large quantities of content about their product lines. However, unlike other industries, the challenge of managing this information is exacerbated by regulatory and compliance demands and the need to manage information from multiple "touch points" across a diverse customer base including patients, healthcare providers and others. While pharmaceutical companies invest millions every year in enterprise content management systems to ensure information meets their demands, the systems don't always serve their most useful purpose.
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Thursday - April 17, 2008
Social Security numbers, pharmacy records and other personal health data from about 130,000 people covered by health insurance giant Wellpoint were left open for possible breach on the Internet, the health insurance giant confirmed Tuesday. Wellpoint said it is not aware of any identity theft related to the problem.
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Tuesday - April 8, 2008
Reluctant to deal with the hassles of airport security, sales executive Michael D'Souza generally packs the syringes he needs for his daily medication in a bag that he checks when he travels. The strategy backfired for the Toronto resident recently when he needed the medication while he was stuck during a four-hour delay at Newark Liberty.
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Friday - April 4, 2008
As technologically advanced as we are in the U.S., we are still in the horse-and-buggy age when it comes to our medical records. A person's records are usually dispersed among a number of healthcare providers, including primary care physicians, specialists, hospitals, emergency rooms, labs, pharmacies and therapists. This system is inefficiently fragmented and also dangerous for the patient.
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Friday - April 4, 2008
Integrating systems pays when it comes to serving customers, yet it took a project one of my students is working on to show how dramatically it saves lives as well. This concept hit home when one of my students from Indonesia brought in the data set he is going to use for his dissertation.
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Wednesday - March 26, 2008
For the last few months, 10 Web developers have worked to re-create Palomar Pomerado Health's hospital of the future in Second Life, the 3-D online world that hosts millions of residents. In the past year, companies like Coca-Cola, Reuters and Wells Fargo have generated headlines for opening and closing campaigns, bureaus and offices in this popular virtual world.
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Saturday - March 15, 2008
Having already pushed floppy disks and zip drives into obsolescence, USB flash drives could soon replace another device past its prime: The medical bracelet. One Lakeland, Fla., startup plans to help spur the transition. InfoMed Technologies has launched a line of USB devices that give doctors and rescue workers fast access to the owner's medical information.
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Friday - March 7, 2008
Google's recent announcement that it is creating a home for personal health records online is a natural outgrowth of Silicon Valley's Web 2.0 consumer Internet focus. The question this raises is whether a market-driven system is better for keeping health records than one run by the government.
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Sunday - March 2, 2008
Don't call U.S. hospitals IT wannabes anymore. For years they suffered by comparison with digitally savvy industries like financial services and insurance, which typically spent almost 10 percent of operating budgets to automate both backroom and customer-facing systems.
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Wednesday - February 27, 2008
For many parents-to-be the excitement and nervousness is often difficult to contain. For Kyle Piechucki, the wait was decidedly boring. Piechucki, now a father of two who lives in Oyster Bay, N.Y., is no deadbeat -- he was ecstatic over the births of each of his children but simply grew tired of interminable waits at doctors' offices.
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Monday - February 25, 2008
Through a joint venture with the renowned Cleveland Clinic, Google is entering yet another software category: electronic personal health records. The two firms last week announced plans to develop a PHR pilot program that will test the secure exchange of patient medical record data between the Cleveland Clinic PHR and a secure Google profile.
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