Category: Data Governance

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

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

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

    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.…

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  • iPad penetrates biotech/pharma with social information access

    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. Related…

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

    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…

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

    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…

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  • Getting real about Enterprise 2.0

    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. Related articles 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.,…

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  • Heartbeat software: life science document management solutions

    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. Related articles Doctors: Become a key opinion leader using social media Best Practices In KOL & Prescriber Management…

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  • Senator Kennedy: Advocate for Healthcare IT and Reform

    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…

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

    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. Related articles Inspiration – Carnegie Mellon ETC Projects (designgames12.wordpress.com) Carnegie Mellon University-Rwanda Launches Graduate…

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