Why the healthcare industry’s move to cloud computing is accelerating
Physicians are targeting breast and ovarian cancer through research that crunches massive amounts of information from more than 2,000 DNA sequences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The...
View ArticleVanishing Good Doctors
This was a great piece talking about the erosion of the patient-physician interaction with the problem of revenue vs amount of time a physician has to actually be in front of a patient. A humanistic...
View ArticleBiogen Licenses Phase 2 Anti-Tau Antibody from Bristol-Myers Squibb
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Biogen (NASDAQ:BIIB) today announced an agreement to exclusively license BMS-986168, a Phase 2-ready experimental medicine with potential in Alzheimer’s disease (AD)...
View ArticleePatientFinder and Rep Network Partner to Expand Clinical Trial Access
Alliance will increase physician exposure and patient participation in clinical trials AUSTIN, Texas, April 18, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — ePatientFinder®, the leader in EHR-driven clinical trial site...
View Article10 of the biggest healthcare data breaches announced in Q1
As of March 14, there have been 312 reported data breaches and more than 1.3 million exposed records in 2017, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center. Around 25 percent of all data breaches...
View ArticleStartup Insider: 4 questions with ePatientFinder CEO Tom Dorsett
Startup Insider: 4 questions with ePatientFinder CEO Tom Dorsett Written by Jessica Kim Cohen In 2013, ePatientFinder launched with a mission to revamp clinical trials by making them more accessible...
View Article‘We didn’t expect this’: A historic yellow fever outbreak spreads in Brazil
IPANEMA, MINAS GERAIS, Brazil — His nicotine-yellow eyes and haunted stare gave José de Moraes the look of a man who had been to the brink of death and back again. “I am debilitated,” he said. A...
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Wake Up!
On 08 December 2016, it was published that in the first time in more than two decades, the life expectancy for Americans is on the decline despite having advanced treatments to help prolong lives....
View ArticleNurses take on bigger role in health information technology – Modern Healthcare
In the early 1990s, registered nurse Charlotte Seckman moved to Maryland, where she was hired to help a large hospital transition from a paper patient-record system to a digital one. Her position as a...
View ArticleePatientFinder CEO Tom Dorsett Speaks with BioSpace
Although there is a long history of patients responding to advertisements on various media platforms to participate in clinical tests, Dorsett, founder and chief executive officer of ePatientFinder,...
View ArticleMed students to get EHR experience with new training platform
Regenstrief EHR Clinical Learning Platform leverages patient data, offering practice in navigating records, documenting encounters and placing orders. Read the source article at Health Data Management...
View ArticleSTAT Plus: Instead of ‘fail first,’ try ‘patients first,’ cancer doctors tell...
Cancer patients are locked in an intensifying struggle with insurers, who sometimes force them to try less expensive drugs before moving to more expensive ones, even against doctors’ wishes. Now the...
View ArticleCan IT help cure the opioid crisis?
State and local agencies have been wrestling the devastation caused by growing opioid abuse for some time, but the issue has lately been getting attention from the federal government. The Department...
View ArticleData Analytics Crucial to Navigating Future Health Care Spending
During a presentation at the NAMCP Spring Managed Care Forum 2017, Lawrence Schimmel, MD, chief medical officer of QualMetrix, highlighted how data analytics are crucial to understanding the future of...
View ArticleArtificial intelligence shows potential to fight blindness
Researchers from the Byers Eye Institute at Stanford University have found a way to use artificial intelligence to fight a complication of diabetes that affects the eyes. This advance has the...
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Star Wars and Healthcare: May the 4th Be With You
May the 4th be with you! Poking fun at Star Wars and healthcare today made sense so I wanted to look at some instances or things we could learn from Star Wars when it comes to healthcare. I’ve...
View ArticleCerner still leads in EHR marketshare, though smaller vendors are making moves
Cerner still has the greatest market share for electronic health record vendors in the United States, beating out top rivals Epic and Mckesson, according to the latest Kalorama report. McKesson’s...
View ArticleWHO to make biosimilars more available in poor countries
The World Health Organization (WHO) will launch a pilot project for biosimilars to make costly cancer treatments more widely available in low and middle income countries. As announced in a press...
View ArticleHealthcare Blockchain Focus of New IEEE Standards Association
– IEEE announced the launch of its latest IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) Industry Connections (IC) program: Digital Inclusion through Trust and Agency, which focuses on blockchain technology....
View ArticleDeep learning helps scientists keep track of cell’s inner parts: Deep...
Donnelly Centre researchers have developed a deep learning algorithm that can track proteins, to help reveal what makes cells healthy and what goes wrong in disease. “We can learn so much by looking...
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