Healthcare and life sciences resources
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IHE – Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) is a multi-year initiative that creates the framework for passing vital health information seamlessly—from application to application, system to system, and setting to setting—across the entire healthcare enterprise. |
07 Jul 2008 |
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Accelerate research breakthroughs and develop competitive advantage with high performance computing
Many companies use high performance computing (HPC) to gain insights into their business and processes to achieve long-term, sustainable competitive advantage. Speed. Efficiency. Lower costs. This brochure overviews IBM’s holistic approach to HPC, called “deep computing,” and the benefits it can bring to your organization. |
12 May 2008 |
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Healthcare in India: caring for more than a billion
India faces considerable healthcare challenges. A growing middle class has greater access to good healthcare. A large majority do not. An unsustainable path has public health, economic, social and political ramifications. This paper explores India’s opportunity to avoid the problems faced by other healthcare systems. |
31 Mar 2008 |
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Virtualization: Healthcare's cure for the common cost? Part 2
This report from Health Industry Insights, an IDC company, describes the findings from the second phase of Health Industry Insights' four-phase, three-year longitudinal "benchmark" study of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s (UPMC's) Information Technology Service Transformation Program (ITSTP). |
26 Mar 2008 |
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SOA for health plans: New connections for new business models
Controlling costs while improving the quality and accessibility of healthcare services are challenging providers and payers. This balance requires integrated clinical and administrative information exchange. This brochure by the IBM Institute for Business Value examines how a service oriented architecture (SOA) can help. |
12 Mar 2008 |
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IBM-AstraZeneca II: A new model for collaborative IT outsourcing
This white paper from Health Industry Insights, an IDC company, examines the recently enacted, follow-on IT outsourcing agreement between AstraZeneca and IBM. Despite its apparent similarity, this new agreement is dramatically different from the original contract in both scope and expectations. |
06 Mar 2008 |
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Solving the healthcare systems conundrum
Is your healthcare organization ready to build a more agile, competitive, member-centric organization and find incremental savings from business processes optimization? This study examines a service-oriented approach to systems transformation to address key issues in the healthcare market. |
07 Feb 2008 |
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IBM SCORE supported configurations and products
IBM SCORE requires the use of several collateral products for its normal operations. This paper is intended to provide clarification of the level of support that can be generally expected for SCORE with various combinations of dependent products. |
21 Jan 2008 |
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Streamline medical image management in clinical trials with IBM SCORE
The IBM Solution for Compliance in a Regulated Environment (SCORE) provides comprehensive content management capabilities for collecting, managing, moving and storing medical images and associated metadata through a controlled workflow, helping organizations comply with good laboratory processes and government regulations. |
21 Dec 2007 |
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IBV Executive Brief: The new biopharmaceutical blueprint
Bringing a pharmaceutical product to market takes more than good science. It takes an agile business to respond to the changing market dynamics. This paper explores how service-oriented architecture (SOA) can align business and IT, helping enterprises achieve business flexibility within a compliant environment. |
15 Oct 2007 |
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The Total Economic Impact of IBM Patient Portal powered by WebSphere
IBM Patient Portal, powered by IBM Websphere® Has shown multiple short-term financial benefits, including increased revenue, cost savings and improved efficiencies. Based on this Forrester study, commissioned by IBM, the long-term benefits may be even more significant. |
09 Oct 2007 |
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Executive brief: Healthcare 2015 and U.S. health plans
The healthcare system is on an unsustainable path that will force its transformation. We’re witnessing changes to the delivery of healthcare that will redefine the way health plans compete and operate. With this in mind, U.S. health plans must reassess their future roles and the competencies needed to support them. |
19 Sep 2007 |
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Accelerating life sciences solutions with IBM clusters
IBM cluster technology can enable innovative ‘in silico’ analyses throughout diverse bioscience organizations. An affordable, scalable, and flexible solution; IBM clusters have even been deployed to advance ‘in silico’ analysis by solving some of the most challenging research problems. |
05 Sep 2007 |
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Using high performance computing clusters to accelerate life science solutions
Life science innovation supplies the market demand of consumers and providers for ever-more sophisticated healthcare solutions – a demand that has reached unprecedented heights. Fortunately, the recent discovery and development of digital tools for researchers and scientists has opened new doors to innovation. |
05 Sep 2007 |
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The Health Record Banking imperative: A conceptual model
Regional health information organizations (RHIOs) and a national health information network (NHIN) have been proposed as systems for the exchange of comprehensive healthcare information, but these face many challenges. The Health Record Banking (HRB) system may offer an alternative. |
14 Aug 2007 |
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IBV study: The evolving role of biomarkers
Biomarker-enabled R&D is maturing into a new discipline, potentially increasing drug treatment efficacy and safety. This paper reflects insights and discussions from the IBM (Imaging) Biomarker Summit III in January 2007. This summit explored a full spectrum of biomarkers, including imaging, genomics and proteomics. |
13 Aug 2007 |
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Touch briefings: The eClinical equation – Delivering the vision
In today's R&D market, companies are seeking to create a more innovative, productive and integrated Clinical Development environment—an 'eClinical' vision. This collection of articles from IBM Global Business Services clients and colleagues focuses on implementations of eClinical solutions in several areas. Find out more. |
13 Aug 2007 |
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Video: A smarter world for Charley
A visit with Charley, an elderly man who lives independently. In Charley’s “smart house,” his wellness program nurse is able to track his diet, weight and activity level through devices installed in his home. A new generation of smart devices promises to make wellness programs less disruptive to those who need them most. |
20 Jul 2007 |
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Transforming healthcare payers into member-centric enterprises with IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences solutions
In today’s competitive market, healthcare payers must deliver a customized experience while meeting strategic goals. This solution brief explores how transforming into a member-centric enterprise with flexible, unified and modernized core systems, customer service and information management can help. |
20 Jun 2007 |
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White paper: Modeling the kinetics of large sets of reactions on metal surfaces
This paper describes a new model for obtaining reasonable estimates for rate constants for reactions on metal surfaces that yields rate constants and rate constant parameters without large amounts of computer time. |
29 May 2007 |
