Margalit Gur-Arie, The Health Care Blog
“2010 is drawing to an end amongst a flurry of activities in the Health IT field. In a few short days 2011, the year of the Meaningful Use, will be upon us and the stimulus clocks will start ticking furiously. In addition to the yearlong visionary activities from ONC, December 2010 brought us two landmark opinions on the future of medical informatics.
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eHealthNews.eu
“Technological advances have taken the medical world to a whole new level, as digital infrastructure and state-of-the-art software offer doctors and patients the right tools for diagnosis and treatment. Helping to advance the technology further is the NEUGRID (A grid-based e-infrastructure for data archiving/communication and computationally intensive applications in the medical sciences) project, which is backed with EUR 2.8 million in financial support under the ‘Information and communication technologies’ (ICT) Theme of the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).
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Kailasam S et al, International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications, Article ID 536237
A typical telemedicine system involves a small set of hospitals providing remote healthcare services to a small section of the society using dedicated nodal centers. However, in developing nations like India where majority live in rural areas that lack specialist care, we envision the need for much larger Internet-based telemedicine systems that would enable a large pool of doctors and hospitals to collectively provide healthcare services to entire populations.
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aguitarte, Somos Medicina
“Uno de los principios de la Web2.0 y por tanto de la eSalud es el uso de aplicaciones en la nube, herramientas que almacenan nuestra información en data centers de forma que podamos acceder a ella siempre que tengamos conexión a Internet.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Europe
“European researchers are using cloud services and grid technology to help treat cancer patients more quickly.
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eHealthNews
“Cloud services provided over grid technology are helping to treat cancer patients, thanks to an enormous effort by European researchers working closely with industry. Cancer is Europe’s second largest killer and one of the most difficult diseases to treat. There are dozens of therapeutic protocols designed to respond to the vast diversity of cases that confront doctors.
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HealthTech Wire
“What is the best way to operate on a child with a particular congenital heart disease? How are certain brain tumours that occur at a very early age best dealt with?
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“Biomedical Informatics is at an exciting cross roads: the computational challenges facing researchers, clinicians and public health professionals now exceed the computational power typically available in an academic biomedical setting. This is exciting because it means that the advances in high performance computing from other disciplines (e.g. physics) can be brought to bear on the great challenges of life sciences, health and medical research. The opportunities to develop new therapies, monitor trends in ambulatory hospital data and catch and avert drug related mishaps (e.g. Vioxx) are truly astounding. With the advent of the $1,000 “ome” (genotype, phenotype, labs) – the capacity to analyze and predict longitudinally and in real time as well as the ability to hypothesis test retrospectively will challenge the computational boundaries of all biomedical research organizations. Computational power is now at the very core or our ability to rapidly advance the state of clinical care and healthcare.”
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John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO, 8 October 2008
Mark Olive, Hanene Rahmouni and Tony Solomonides based on I. Andoulsi; I. Blanquer; V. Breton ; A. Dobrev; C. Van Doosselaere; V. Hernandez; J. Herveg; N. Jacq; Y. Legr�; M. Olive; H. Rahmouni; T. Solomonides; K. Stroetmann; V. Stroetmann; P. Wilson, European Commission, October 2008
Grid technology, one of the key technologies for the �European Research Area�, offers rapid computation, large scale data storage and flexible collaboration by harnessing together the power of large numbers of computers, from end-users� desktops to powerful workstations and clusters of more powerful machines.
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Mark Olive, Hanene Rahmouni and Tony Solomonides based on I. Andoulsi; I. Blanquer; V. Breton ; A. Dobrev; C. Van Doosselaere; V. Hernandez; J. Herveg; N. Jacq; Y. Legr�; M. Olive; H. Rahmouni; T. Solomonides; K. Stroetmann; V. Stroetmann; P. Wilson, European Commission, October 2008
“If two trillion filing cabinets—or one billion terabytes—sounds like too much data to deal with, brace yourself. According to industry experts, health care data is increasing at such a rapid rate that by 2010, medical centers will need to be equipped to hold this massive volume of information. This exponential growth of data is straining storage and long-term archiving resources, says IBM’s Dr. Richard Bakalar, chief medical officer.”
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Cindy Atoji, Digital Healthcare & Productivity, 29 July 2008
“This week, I attended Healthcare Computing 2008 to get an update on the current state of e-health in the UK and to explore how grid technology can contribute. Health Informatics is a broad subject and it isn’t possible to engage with the whole field, but I see three main areas of potential engagement.”
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Dave Berry, Distributed Thinking, 25 April 2008
“The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center’s Center for Telehealth and Cybermedicine Research has been awarded $15.5 million from the Federal Communications Commission for the design, construction, operation and evaluation of a Southwest Telehealth Access Grid.”
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New Mexico Business Weekly, 29 February 2008
IBM and Cancer Institute of New Jersey want to use GRID technology to better predict outcome of cancer medication, fine tune therapy and develop new drugs.
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Heise Online, 27 January 2008
