GE Healthcare announces SaaS Electronic Medical Records Management
http://newsroom.gehealthcare.com/ GE Health Care is rolling out a new, cloud-based platform that makes it easier for physicians with small practices to maintain and keep track of the electronic Continue Reading
Grid computing projects supported by Big Blue announced significant progress in looking for new potential drugs in cancer treatment
http://www.cioupdate.com/features/article.php/3888281/IBM-Volunteers-Help-Locate-Anti-Cancer-Drugs.htm Continue Reading
22 Million Australian Cloud computing initiative to benefit life science researchers
The Australian Research Collaboration Service (ARCS) www.arcs.org.au has launched its Computer Cloud scheme, a $22 million project funded by the government’s National Collaborative Research Continue Reading
GSK, MedTrust launch iPhone/iPad app for cancer trials
GlaxoSmithKline has teamed up with MedTrust Online, provider of specialist data and technology to oncologists, to launch CancerTrialsApp, described as “the first free geo locating cancer Continue Reading
F.D.A. Says Millions Got Unapproved Drugs, Should the new bioequivalence and bioanalytical guidelines for 2010, be made more stringent
Plans by FDA to Adopt stricter standards for Bioequivalence, Bioavailability for generic drugs could sound trouble for Indian Generic Manufactures. Already most of the smaller companies are finding Continue Reading
New microarray chip improves drug safety, helps stop animal testing
Jonathan West a micro-engineer and his colleagues at the University of Dortmund in Germany, has developed the new microarray chip which can test an estimated 30,000 chemicals their toxicological Continue Reading
FDA launches “Basics” transparency microsite
The FDA unveiled phase 1 of its transparency initiative with the launch of FDA Basics, a microsite aimed at demystifying the agency’s workings for the public. It’s the first of a 3 Continue Reading
NVidia to launch a touch screen Android OS PC powered by 8 core chip that runs for 25 days
NVIDIA and Notion Ink, launches ‘Adam’, a touch screen tablet at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show in January 2010, a high-tech IT product that was completely developed in India, Continue Reading
Research on plants to produce pharmaceutical drugs
I have got too lazy after I started using twitter. So instead of posting news story in my blog I just updated my twitter @clinicalsearch about Dr Josh Mylne from the Institute for Molecular Continue Reading
One in 10 hospital prescriptions in UK ‘is wrong
I am not concerned about the number of mistakes made in UK hospitals. As a pharmacist I am concerned, if UK has such a high rate of medication errors, then what would be the rates in countries like Continue Reading
Indian Government to make biometric ID mandatory for clinical trials
Hit with allegations in the western media about unethical practices in conducting clinical trials, The Indian government and regulatory authorities are making a bolder move planning mandatory Continue Reading
Drug companies conducting their own clinical trials leads to Conflict of Interest a Debate
Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre argues that the financial interests of drug companies lead to distorted evidence, but Vincent Lawton believes that adequate safeguards exist to keep bias in check. Full Continue Reading
World Ecconomic Forum India Economic Summit | Collaborative strategy for drug discovery
The Coverage of the World Ecconomic Forum India Economic Summit is available at http://blog.livemint.com/wefindia/ I was more interested in the Collaborative Strategy for Drug Development read the Continue Reading
National Library of Medicine wants health care organizations to test drive Medical mapping tool
The National Library of Medicine wants health care organizations and vendors to test drive its new mapping tool that covers 5,000 standardized clinical terms , to create a standard medical vocabulary Continue Reading
Linkedin and Social Media is ruining my people- feeble attempts to fight of Social Media and the Compliance nightmare
There has been a flurry of discussion around social media and its implication in the last few months , So I thought it would be good to have some of these arguments laid out in one single post. Continue Reading
Myth=My sales people are wasting valuable time on Linkedin when they should be selling, Reality= Social Networking helps in Sales -Top execs say they are influenced by social networks
“My sales people are wasting valuable time on Facebook and Linkedin when they should be selling”: Now thats what most sales managers would say. I know thats true , I have irritated fare share of Continue Reading
India looses USD 1 Billion Investment in Drug R&D to China due to lax Indian patent laws-
Did I really read the news correct or was I just plain drunk on a weekend while reading it. Turns out it is true. Just a week after the Novartis CEO has blasted the Indian IP laws, Novartis has Continue Reading
Shorter Path to drug Discovery share research on failed compounds between companies the new MIT lead approach-
The moment I learned about this new project started by MIT, I could think of only one thing, I want to be part of it. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have, started a pharmaceutical Continue Reading
Can we use the new Intel Product that Captures, Printed Text to Digital Text and then Reads Text- in clinical trials
Intel Corp.’s Digital Health Group has introduced a handheld product to convert printed text to digital text, then read it aloud to the user. The Intel Reader is designed for persons with Continue Reading
India begins serious efforts to ensure patient safety- Rejoice if you are in US Obama is going to penalize hospitals with high one-month readmission rates for transitioned patients
MUMBAI: A mop left inside a patient’s stomach after a surgery, an expired drug administered to an ailing person or a hospital-acquired infection-medical errors are a nightmare for both Continue Reading
