Healthcare and life sciences news
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IBM supercomputer bolsters cancer research
IBM has announced the deployment of Canada’s fastest research supercomputer at the Ontario Cancer Institute, University Health Network. The new system will aid in the search for more effective cancer treatments through automation, high resolution imaging and computer-based image classification for protein analysis. |
27 Jun 2008 |
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IBM helps Quebec hospitals protect patients against drug interactions
Hospitals and healthcare facilities in the Lower St. Lawrence, Gaspe Peninsula/Magdalen Islands and Outaouais regions of Canada have invested $2 million to implement the advanced SyPhaC pharmaceutical management system, which uses IBM technology and services to help automate services offered by hospital pharmacies. |
17 Jun 2008 |
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IBM calls on healthcare providers to forge new delivery models that redefine value and engage consumers
In its study entitled, Healthcare 2015 and care delivery: Delivery models refined, competencies defined, IBM calls on health systems to collaborate in achieving new milestones in defining, measuring and delivering healthcare value, and activating consumers who will become increasingly responsible for their own healthcare. |
11 Jun 2008 |
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IBM awarded 10-year contract for Bristol-Myers Squibb human resources services
IBM has announced a 10-year, $324 million Business Transformation Outsourcing (BTO) agreement with Bristol-Myers Squibb to transform and support many of the company’s global human resource (HR) functions. |
05 Jun 2008 |
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Made in IBM labs: New data sharing technology speeds international collaboration to identify and respond to infectious diseases
IBM, in collaboration with the Nuclear Threat Initiative’s Global Health and Security Initiative and the Middle East Consortium on Infectious Disease Surveillance, has created a unique technology that standardizes the method of sharing health information and automates the analysis of infectious disease outbreaks. |
02 Jun 2008 |
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IBM and Siemens healthcare team to help community hospitals reduce operating costs and energy consumption
At a time when concerns over spiraling healthcare costs and global environmental issues have grown dramatically, Siemens and IBM have announced that they will work together to help community hospitals reduce their operating costs and energy consumption. |
07 May 2008 |
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Storage Virtualization in action: Palomar Pomerado Health moves to the forefront of digital healthcare with IBM Storage Virtualization
IBM has announced that Palomar Pomerado Health (PPH), the largest public health district in California, has implemented a new virtualized information infrastructure, enabling PPH to manage and store electronic medical records and improving the availability of critical information within a manageable storage infrastructure. |
11 Apr 2008 |
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Bycast and IBM selected by Richardson Regional Medical Center
Richardson Regional Medical Center has standardized on Bycast StorageGRID® storage management software to store and protect Richardson Regional’s mission critical reference data within its enterprise archive. IBM’s Storage business delivers the Bycast software to market as part of its Grid Medical Archive Solution (GMAS). |
27 Feb 2008 |
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IBM and partners utilizing SOA strategy to help healthcare providers improve efficiency and patient care
IBM has announced it is collaborating with nine business partners to help healthcare providers, clinics and hospitals improve productivity, increase quality and reduce costs through the use of service oriented architecture (SOA). The partners are working to develop new healthcare applications using the IBM SOA Foundation. |
25 Feb 2008 |
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IBM unveils the next generation of Enterprise Health Analytics
IBM has announced a comprehensive portfolio of health analytics solutions for health systems. IBM’s proven Enterprise Health Analytics harness the power of massive information generated by the healthcare industry by converting it into new, data-driven intelligence. |
25 Feb 2008 |
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IBM opens new 3D Virtual Healthcare Island on Second Life
IBM debuted at HIMSS®08 its newest island in Second Life: IBM Virtual Healthcare Island. The island is a unique, three-dimensional representation of the challenges facing today’s healthcare industry and the role information technology will play in transforming global healthcare-delivery to meet patient needs. |
24 Feb 2008 |
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Georgia State adds new IBM supercomputer to keep pace with demand
Georgia State University and IBM have announced that the university has purchased an IBM System Cluster 1350 supercomputer through a regional partnership program between IBM and the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA). |
22 Feb 2008 |
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Kalbe collaborates with IBM to build green data center and reduce energy consumption
IBM and Kalbe, a leading Indonesian pharmaceutical and health company, have announced a collaborative effort to build a new energy efficient “green data center” and undergo a major data center consolidation project to meet the technology requirements of Kalbe’s expanding business, while simultaneously saving energy. |
08 Feb 2008 |
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IBM unveils ten new and enhanced industry solutions enabled by Cognos
IBM has introduced ten industry solutions that unlock the business value of information for customers across key industries including healthcare and life sciences. The new Information on Demand offerings unite IBM’s SOA and industry expertise with the powerful business intelligence capabilities of recently acquired Cognos. |
06 Feb 2008 |
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Mayo Clinic, IBM establish medical imaging research center
Mayo Clinic and IBM have announced the creation of a collaborative research facility aimed at advancing medical imaging technologies to improve patient care. The Medical Imaging Informatics Innovation Center (MI3C) is an extension of a Mayo-IBM research collaboration announced in 2007. |
09 Jan 2008 |
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Carestream Health selects IBM Unified Communications software for immediate collaboration on urgent patient cases
Carestream Health, Inc., has announced an agreement to integrate and sell a key component of the IBM Unified Communications and Collaboration platform—IBM Lotus Sametime. The combined solution will facilitate rapid communication between radiologists and other medical professionals in patient diagnosis and treatment. |
26 Nov 2007 |
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Healthways builds IBM WebSphere portal-based healthcare site for 27 million members
As a part of a move to streamline patient records and deliver health solutions across incompatible software platforms, IBM and business partner Mainsoft Corporation have announced that Healthways has crossed the .NET-Java™ EE software standards divide to deploy a multimillion patient health and wellness portal. |
19 Nov 2007 |
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Government of Aragon Region (Spain) in EUR 3 million agreement with IBM and Ibermática to improve local health services
The government of Aragon region has signed an agreement worth a total of EUR 3 million with IBM and Ibermática for the technology upgrade of its regional health system. The project includes the expansion of Aragon’s current system for economic and financial management technology, incorporating the Aragon Health Service. |
12 Nov 2007 |
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IBM World Community Grid squeezes decades of cancer research into two years
Canadian researchers expect to accelerate the war on cancer by tapping into a global network of hundreds of thousands of people who volunteer their idle computer time to tackle some of the world’s most complex problems. The research team is the first from Canada to use IBM’s World Community Grid. |
06 Nov 2007 |
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Top U.S. health benefits companies join physicians, employers, consumer groups to support patient centered primary care collaborative
Representatives from seven of the nation’s most prominent health benefits companies will join to support patient-care improvements led by the Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC). The collaborative is dedicated to advancing a new primary-care-based healthcare model called the Patient Centered Medical Home. |
15 Oct 2007 |
