Data Governance – Page 18 – Insight Sciences

To improve drug safety, FDA should check its mixed-up files

April 12, 2011 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Health Informatics, Linguistic Search, Security & Privacy

English: Logo of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (2006) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This is really kind of sad…To improve drug safety, FDA should check its mixed-up files – The Boston Globe.

FDA Issues New Cautionary Guidelines for Metal-on-Metal Hip Implants, Parker Waichman LLP Reports (prweb.com)
DrugRisk Announces Updated Information on Mirena Lawsuits (prweb.com)
FDA’s Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food and Current Good Manufacturing Practice (Part 2 of 3) (prweb.com)
FDA Gives Nod to Celgene For Multiple Myeloma Drug ‘Pomalyst’ (guardianlv.com)
Social Media Guidance Countdown Continues: 576, 575, 574 . . . (druganddevicelaw.blogspot.com)
The State of Drug Safety Surveillance in the U.S.: Much Improved, More to Come (brookings.edu)

Health problems of victims of Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear plant take years to appear

February 1, 2011 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Data Governance, Health Informatics, Network Science, Security & Privacy, Systems Science

Popular movies like the new Chernobyl film point to a disturbing trend: Many of the residents of radiation exposure such as Chernobyl and Fukushima experience long term health problems such as thyroid disease, heart disease, heart valve/vascular disease that take decades to appear leaving them disabled and requiring disability benefits but with little sources of support.

For Japan, Chernobyl may hint at future – Boston.com.

Official data now estimates Chernobyl death toll at 1.5 million (nuclear-news.net)
Former judge urges the evacuation of Fukushima’s children (nuclear-news.net)
Japan -Namie To Conduct Independent Radiation Exposure Exams with some history. (nuclear-news.net)
Fukushima victims to get extra €5.5bn in compensation (independent.ie)
Japanese Judge: Already signs of major health hazard in Fukushima – Kids may end up like those around Chernobyl – Urgent need for evacuation (VIDEO) (enenews.com)
Fukushima survivors to file class action lawsuit against Japanese govt, plant operator (rt.com)
Fukushima Video: “Our hometown became Chernobyl” – Nuke worker: “I’ve finally understood you… Mom, you’re right! Tepco got to hell!” (enenews.com)

iPad penetrates biotech/pharma with social information access

December 9, 2010 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy

After years of regulatory hand wringing about the theoretical risks and benefits of social media in pharma, the Apple iPad and with it an entire ecosystem of interactive apps for science and medical information professionals is now achieving mass penetration of the pharma industry.

Medical-Sector Companies Arm Sales Forces With Apple IPads – WSJ.com.

iPad Altering Interaction between Pharma Sales Forces, Physicians, & Consumers (prnewswire.com)
Pharma Marketing to Physicians for 2012 [INFOGRAPHIC] (medmeme.com)
iPad Tutorial for Seniors; Developers Consider Overhauling Existing Video Courses to Accommodate the Elderly, reports iNewsBucket.com (prweb.com)
iPad 3 vs iPad 2, Online Video Courses Explain The Vast Difference, Reports iNewsBucket.com (prweb.com)
Apple iPad Mini release to be announced 23/10/12 (e2save.com)

The Institute for Infinitely Small Things

August 23, 2010 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Design UX, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Regenerative Economy, Systems Science

The Institute for Infinitely Small Things.

Experimental Geography (Photo credit: Independent Curators International)

RISD OKs more than doubling payment to Providence (boston.com)
Meet our Textile Designer…..Ann Nolan (allatworkhouse.wordpress.com)
The Tools That Make It Happen: Rhode Island School of Design (design-milk.com)
This Offbeat Designer Is A Huge Hit With Daphne Guinness and Nicola Formichetti (refinery29.com)
RISD Exhibition + Make, Do (swiss-miss.com)

Employment Screening, Verification and Background Checks – LexisNexis

August 23, 2010 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Security & Privacy

Employment Screening, Verification and Background Checks – LexisNexis.

Be sure to check your credit, identity periodically with data brokers. others include zaba search, intelius, voompeople, equifax, lexis nexis, center for tech and democracy,

Pre-employment Screening, Criminal Record Checks, Background Check Services & More… (kellybusinessadvisors.com)
Realtor background checks include reputation, character: legal? (agbeat.com)
3 Little Known Reasons Employers Ask for a Background Check (kellybusinessadvisors.com)
LexisNexis Named Official Online Research Provider for 2012 GOP Convention (lsnewsgroup.com)
Background Checks Do’s and Don’t’s (kellybusinessadvisors.com)
Info Quest Inc can assist you with your pre-employment background screening needs. (backgroundchex.wordpress.com)
Employment Background Screening Company to Pay $2.6 Million Penalty for Multiple Violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (ftc.gov)
The LexisNexis 14th Annual Mortgage Fraud Report (bespacific.com)
LexisNexis Named Official Online Research Provider for 2012 GOP Convention (virtual-strategy.com)

When the treatment is worse than the disease: social perspectives on cancer care

May 22, 2010 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Health Informatics, Network Science

For many cancer survivors, the conventional mainstream treatment, radiation and chemotherapy come with a host of side effects which are crippling and sometimes lethal, which might be slow growing or treatable more conservatively. For example, new studies show that survivors of Hodgkin’s disease once considered the lone example of the effectiveness of radiation and chemotherapy are significantly more likely to die of heart disease in the years following treatment due to the toxic effects of these treatments on the cardio vascular system.

Cancer Survivors Need Heart Disease Screening : Internal Medicine News.

Understanding the Shocking New Breast Cancer Study (belmarrahealth.com)
New cancer treatment used for first time in UK (confused.com)
Chemo: What to Expect (breastcancer.answers.com)
Percentage of Patients with Breast Cancer Having Back Pains (breastcancer.answers.com)
Avastin May Help Boost Survival With Aggressive Cervical Cancer: Study (news.health.com)
Chemotherapy units ‘stretched to the limit’ (telegraph.co.uk)
‘We fought cancer together’: Mum and daughter both have breasts removed within weeks (mirror.co.uk)

Hardened Structures: clean tech meets doomsday preppers

May 22, 2010 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Data Governance, Health Informatics, Metadata Masterdata, Security & Privacy, Systems Science

I am increasingly interested in the odd synergy between survivalists and clean technology/sustainability. Here is another company that builds hardened structures/bomb shelters which include biohazard, air, water filtration and electromagnetic protection.

Hardened Structures.

The Free Burma Rangers Service Group and National Geographic’s “Doomsday Preppers” are the Hot Topics on this Week’s Off The Grid News Radio (prweb.com)
‘Doomsday Preppers’: Our New Threat? (aaanet.org)
Tonight on AC360: Inside the Doomsday Preppers movement (ac360.blogs.cnn.com)

Visualizing town-by-town assessed home values and billed property tax amounts in Massachusetts, from 2000 to 2010

May 17, 2010 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Design UX

Very nice info graphic and visualization tool which shows (yikes) both the tax rates for each town and also the change in assessed home values. It definitely shows the drop in value that occurred in Central Mass and some other regions where a simple house can now be purchased for under 100k.

Town-by-town assessed home values and billed property tax amounts in Massachusetts, from 2000 to 2010 – Boston.com.

TurboTax – How to Estimate Property Taxes (turbotax.intuit.com)
TurboTax – What Are Personal Property Taxes? (turbotax.intuit.com)
TurboTax – Paying Property Taxes Online (turbotax.intuit.com)

Getting real about Enterprise 2.0

May 9, 2010 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Linguistic Search

E L S U A ~ A KM Blog Thinking Outside The Inbox by Luis Suarez » Getting Real about Enterprise 2.0 by Oscar Berg and Henrik Gustafsson.

Its beginning to look a lot like Enterprise 2.0 (dealarchitect.typepad.com)
Research and Markets: Global Enterprise 2.0 Market 2012-2016 Report Features Players such as IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Ektron Inc (virtual-strategy.com)
5 Lessons for Enterprise 2.0 Success from Digg, Reddit and Slashdot (isykes.wordpress.com)
The Rise of the Social CEO within Enterprise 2.0 (billives.typepad.com)
Enterprise 2.0: The Human Challenge (c21org.typepad.com)
Enterprise 2.0 Summit: Learning from Alcatel-Lucent, IBM, Yves Caseau, BASF & More “How People Matter” (c21org.typepad.com)
Maybe Enterprise 2.0 Is About the Technology (billives.typepad.com)
Building Enterprise 2.0: Benefits and Risks – exploreB2B (designingdesignthinkingdrivenoperations.wordpress.com)
Taking the Next Step: Going From a Grassroots Enterprise 2.0 Community to an Official One (isykes.wordpress.com)

Heartbeat software: life science document management solutions

September 7, 2009 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Design UX, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Network Science, Regenerative Economy

Heartbeat Experts.

I’m looking for the best slide and content/document management system for pharma. According to KM for Med affairs CBI conference this is one of the best. Also, Cadient group, Exploria, Open Q, Skila, look good.

Senator Kennedy: Advocate for Healthcare IT and Reform

September 2, 2009 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Network Science

The death of Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) marks an important milestone in e-health and health-care IT as one of its more vigorous champions is now gone. Since the Kennedy brothers went to my high school and were I feel amongst our strongest leaders as a country I feel a special sense of sorrow with his passing. Indeed in listening to Obama’s eulogy I reflected that as Obama said “For five decades, virtually every major piece of legislation to advance the civil rights, health and economic well being of the American people bore his name and resulted from his efforts”. Recently he sponsored the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), which includes $19 billion for health IT advancement and funding to promote healthcare, medical research and the study of comparative effectiveness treatments. Fortunately the roadmap he has put into place will allow major investments in healthcare IT and reform. Now, it is time for us to continue his legacy.

Carnegie Mellon Program in Biotechnology and Management: Healthcare spending and GDP

August 30, 2009 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy

English: Total U.S. healthcare spending. 1960 ... — English: Total U.S. healthcare spending. 1960 to 2007. Percent of GDP (gross domestic product). Data is from OECD Health Data 2009 – Frequently Requested Data. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Biotechnology and Management.

The healthcare system costs the United States $2.7 trillion — 17.5 percent of gross domestic product — in 2010. More than 40 percent of that cost — about $1 billion — comprises pharmaceutical, diagnostics, biotechnology and medical devices.

Inspiration – Carnegie Mellon ETC Projects (designgames12.wordpress.com)
Carnegie Mellon University-Rwanda Launches Graduate Degree Programs (atlantablackstar.com)
NC Museum of Natural Sciences holds ‘Biotechnology Day’ for children with presentations by Monsanto (familysurvivalprotocol.com)
Feature: 2007 Darpa Video – GM and Carnegie Mellon’s Boss (motortrend.com)
Carnegie Mellon’s smart headlight system will have drivers seeing through the rain (eurekalert.org)
Where Was that Picture Taken? Carnegie Mellon Can Tell You (semanticweb.com)
3 Biotechnology ETFs For Hiding From Market Turmoil (seekingalpha.com)
Carnegie Mellon spinoff’s toys teach technology by making it fun (eschoolnews.com)
Cytos Biotechnology Ltd Reports Second Quarter 2012 Financial Results, Recent Development and Outlook (prnewswire.com)

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