PODCAST: One-on-One w/Eclipsys CEO Phil Pead

Phil Pead, President & CEO, Eclipsys

While everyone tries to create a sensation at the annual HIMSS conference, few actually achieve it. But with the release of its open-architecture Helios platform, Eclipsys managed to surmount that bar. The iPhone-esque vision of an open platform which independent application designers can build on seems to many a refreshing proposition. And some see it [...]

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ONC Awards $60 Million in SHARP Grants

As part of its Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) program to promote innovation, ONC has awarded four organizations a total of $60 million — Mayo Clinic of Medicine, Harvard University, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Each institution’s research projects “will identify short-term and long-term [...]

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PBM versus EHR: Culture Clash?

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Individualizing drug therapy based on pharmacogenomics (PGx) is considered by many academic researchers and clinical experts as the “next significant domain of clinical practice” (see the American College of Clinical Pharmacology’s very informative web-based tutorial, “The Future of Medicine: Pharmacogenomics”, http://user.accp1.org/index_new.html). Drugs that are currently recommended for PGx testing by the FDA include specific medications [...]

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At HIMSS10, A Race to the Bottom

Anthony Guerra, editor-in-chief, hsCIO.com

A journalist’s job is to listen for trends, sift through the noise, and find the kernel of importance in a speech, trial, or presentation. It’s a skill that comes over time, after many mistakes and, for me, after getting many a lead ripped to shreds by my journalism professors. I think I’ve gotten the hang [...]

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