GE Healthcare to Connect 500,000 Imaging Machines with Announcement of GE Health Cloud and Apps
The GE Health Cloud1 was unveiled today at the 101st annual Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) meeting in Chicago. Designed exclusively for the healthcare industry, the new cloud ecosystem and its applications will connect radiologists and clinicians to speed, efficiency and collaboration across care pathways and multidisciplinary teams – both inside and outside the hospital setting.
Improve efficiency and compliance within your radiopharmacy
Following the global success of PETra and Debra, LabLogic has developed a laboratory information management system (LIMS) specific to production of SPECT radiolabelled products.
Incorporating domain knowledge in chemical and biomedical named entity recognition with word representations
Munkhdalai et al. express their belief that named entity recognition (NER) is vital to future text mining efforts in the biochemical sciences in this 2015 paper published in Journal of Cheminformatics. As such, the researchers set about to create a scalable biomedical NER system utilizing natural language processing (NLP) tasks. The group concluded that their work has yielded a well-performing "integrated system that can be applied for chemical and drug NER or biomedical NER."
Clinithink: Next Generation Online Tool Structures Clinical Narrative for Free
Clinical Natural Language Processing (NLP) firm, Clinithink, has announced an upgrade of their web-based platform, CLiX ONLINE, to give healthcare organisations access to more actionable information from their data. The free service is built on the company’s latest clinical NLP technology that automatically structures clinical free text to common medical terminologies that can then be analysed or queried to give users insights into their clinical and business performance.
ImageInbox® Mobile App for Patient Transfer, Control and Ownership of Medical Images and Diagnostic Reports Now Available for Android OS Users
NexGenic, LLC announces its ImageInbox® app is available today as a free Android app in the Google Play Store, allowing patients everywhere to securely share medical images. The new Android OS extends the ImageInbox® image exchange platform to include more than 96% of smartphone users worldwide, giving them control of their full-resolution diagnostic images, necessary for healthcare providers to make important treatment decisions
MSC Software’s Marc 2015 Delivers New Material Models for Advanced Nonlinear Simulations
MSC Software Corporation today announced the new release of Marc 2015. Marcis relied upon by product manufacturers for nonlinear and multiphysics simulations of engineered products ranging from automotive parts to rubber components to sophisticated medical and consumer electronic devices.
Familiprix acquires PraxisLab laboratory software
Familiprix inc. continues along the path of technological progress, announcing its purchase of all intellectual property (IP) rights for PraxisLab, a laboratory software. Once this transaction is finalized, Familiprix will enjoy unrestricted use of the technology contained in this laboratory management software developed by ZoomMed, off the banner.
Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 13, Issue 45
November 19, 2015 Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update Volume 13, Issue 45 In This Issue Articles Why You Should Interface Your Instruments to LIMS Why is it important to interface your instruments to your LIMS? What instruments CAN be interfaced? If it’s so important, how come so many laboratories still haven’t done so? Bid / RFP / RFI Opportunities DUE December 10, 2015: Request for Response - Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS3) The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, through the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP), is soliciting bids for the acquisition of…DECEMBER 9, 2015, 2:00 PM: Astrix Technology Group Invites You To The First Of A Series Of Labworks Webinars
Part I: “ Tune Up Your Existing Installation and Improve The User Experience” - The LABWORKS Optimization Seminar Series will consist of three seminars focused on getting the most of your LABWORKS system. Part I is a “How To” seminar conducted by a LABWORKS expert. Get hands-on advice how to get LABWORKS running at peak performance.
FieldX Inc. Releases Key Improvements to Sampling App
FieldX SamplingTM for the iPad® and iPhone® now has additional features to improve the user experience and increase flexibility for data entry. The app is used for in-field navigation and managing soil sampling events.
Requirements for data integration platforms in biomedical research networks: A reference model
In this 2015 open-access research paper published in PeerJ Computer Science, Ganzinger and Knaup present a reference model for developing information technology infrastructure for biomedical research networks. The researchers found that the model to be useful when "used by research networks as a basis for a resource efficient acquisition of their project specific requirements."
Viewics to Provide Analytics Platform for Diagnostic Laboratory Services
Diagnostic Laboratory Services, Inc. (DLS), the largest locally owned clinical testing laboratory in Hawaii, today announced an agreement with Viewics, Inc., a provider of healthcare analytics solutions. The Viewics analytics platform, Viewics Health Insighter (VHI), will aggregate data from DLS’ clinical and microbiology laboratory information systems (LIS), as well as its XIFIN billing system, providing real-time information and insights across clinical, operational, and financial areas of the organization.
Why You Should Interface Your Instruments to LIMS
Why is it important to interface your instruments to your LIMS? What instruments CAN be interfaced? If it’s so important, how come so many laboratories still haven’t done so?Why You Should Interface Your Instruments to LIMS
Why is it important to interface your instruments to your LIMS? What instruments CAN be interfaced? If it’s so important, how come so many laboratories still haven’t done so?
4273π: Bioinformatics education on low cost ARM hardware
In 2013, Barker et al. concluded their testing of a home-grown open-access undergraduate bioinformatics course called 4273π Bioinformatics for Biologists. Happy with the results of their course, they group published a paper about it in BMC Bioinformatics, concluding their Raspberry Pi-based "4273π [operating system] is a means to teach bioinformatics, including systems administration tasks, to undergraduates at low cost."
University-level practical activities in bioinformatics benefit voluntary groups of pupils in the last 2 years of school
The topic of teaching methodologies in bioinformatics at the pre-university level is brought up by Barker et al. in this 2015 journal article published in the International Journal of STEM Education. Using Rasperry Pi and 4273π in their implementation, the group found "our preliminary study supports the feasibility of bringing university-level, practical bioinformatics activities to school pupils."
Support patient search on pathology reports with interactive online learning based data extraction
Zheng et al. "developed an online machine learning based information extraction system called IDEAL-X" in 2015. They published the results of their experience in the Journal of Pathology Informatics, concluding "[b]y combining iterative online learning and adaptive controlled vocabularies, IDEAL-X can deliver highly adaptive and accurate data extraction to support patient search."
Factors associated with adoption of health information technology: A conceptual model based on a systematic review
This 2014 article published byJMIR Medical Informatics sees Kruse et al. attempting to identify internal and external factors that affect health information technology (HIT) adoption. The group concludes that "[c]ommonalities exist in the literature for internal organizational and external environmental factors associated with the adoption of the EHR and/or CPOE."
Arxspan Electronic Laboratory Notebook to Help the Broad Institute Manage Discovery Process and Meet Scientific Goals
Arxspan has entered into an agreement with the Broad Institute of MIT andHarvard for use of its ArxLab cloud-based suite of biological and chemical discovery information management tools.
Genomics England Contracts with WuXi NextCODE as Clinical Interpretation Partner in both Rare Disease and Cancer
Genomics England has today announced that it has contracted with WuXi NextCODE as a Clinical Interpretation Partner for the 100,000 Genomes Project. The China, US and Iceland-based company is the first to work with them on cancer samples and will also interpret samples in rare disease.
