Category: Knowledge Management

  • The next killer app: Online communal wisdom should be harnessed for drug development

    It seems a no brainer at this point. But it is about time that the life science industry utilized online communal knowledge for drug development The next killer app – The Boston Globe. Related articles Killer Apps May be Confusing US (sophisticatedfinance.typepad.com) Second Screen Killer App: Predictive Gaming is the “Future of Sports Television,” Turner’s…

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  • Artificial intelligence is already here (and in control)

    Just when many were convinced of the futility of AI in the immediate future, an interesting article in Wired shows just how embedded it is in our everyday life, from flash trading to self driving cars, fraud detection and more. The difference?  Let computers accomplish tasks we don’t want to do their own way instead…

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  • Quantified Self: New Personal Informatics Community

    Check this out. Quantified Self | Self Knowledge Through Numbers. Related articles National Informatics Center of India Hacked by Code Injector and Yash (news.softpedia.com) Using Education Informatics to Improve Library Services to Doctoral Students: An Embedded Approach by Lynette Ralph (bluesyemre.com) Information Technology improves patient care and increases privacy, informatics expert says (medicalxpress.com) Health Informatics…

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  • Tech hiring on upswing due to personal informatics

    Tech hiring is on upswing, but not where you’d expect – The Boston Globe. Related articles Pathology Informatics Conference Moved to May 13-16, 2014 (labsoftnews.typepad.com) National Informatics Center of India Hacked by Code Injector and Yash (news.softpedia.com) Week 1: What is Social Informatics? (taylormharvey.wordpress.com)

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  • ExL Pharmaceutical Conferences

    ExL Pharmaceutical Conferences | Pharmaceutical Meetings | Pharmaceutical Events I have spoken at these conferences and they do a great job of staying abreast of the latest in digital media, KM and health informatics in pharma and life sciences. Related articles Commercial Effectiveness Of Pharmaceutical Sales And Marketing Conference, 27-28 August 2012, Boston, MA (medicalnewstoday.com)…

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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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  • Time 50 best inventions of 2010 features synthetic cell, biotech, ipad, software

      The 50 Best Inventions of 2010 – TIME 3-D Bioprinter Sarcasm Detection Plus one really cool new carbonator… Related articles Monsanto Partners With Synthetic Genomics Monsanto Partners With Biotech in La Jolla (utsandiego.com) Where Would You be Today Without Inventions? (english.answers.com) First biotech IPO of ’13 jumps in encouraging debut (fiercebiotech.com) This Week in…

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  • FDA final rule on safety info, but still no word on social media

    FDA issues final rule on safety information during clinical trials This is an interesting announcement and reveals to me the fact that the FDA is coming to grips with the fact that the current process for reporting adverse events needs an overhaul including refining what qualifies as an AE and how they are reported. I…

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  • High Speed Science: NIH vs. 23andMe Smackdown

    via www.wired.com Another excellent article on turning the scientific method on its head using new web based social networking data mining methods versus hypothesis/testing. For example compares the conventional approach of NIH to that of 23andMe in studying Parkinson’s which lead to a reduction in research time from 6 years to 8 months. Related articles…

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