Signet Accel and ACRES Bring Interoperability to Global Biopharma Clinical Research System
Signet Accel, a software and services company specializing in data integration and harmonization, today announced a partnership with the Alliance for Clinical Research Excellence and Safety (ACRES), a non-profit, multi-sector collaborative bringing together diverse stakeholders in clinical research and healthcare with a shared goal of accelerating medicine development with greater safety, speed and efficiency.
Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 15, Issue 4
January 25, 2017 Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update Volume 15, Issue 4 In This Issue Event Focus FEBRUARY 19 - 24, 2017: Molecular Med Tri-Con Why is the Tri-Conference the Premier Event on Molecular Medicine & Diagnostics? If you are working in diagnostics and drug discovery, this is the must attend event of the year. Attracting over 3,500 drug discovery and development professionals from over 40 countries in 2016, the Tri-Conference has grown into a diverse event, focusing on Molecular Medicine, specifically on Discovery, Genomics, Diagnostics and Information Technology. Why attend the Tri-Conference? HEAR over 500 speakers from across all industries,…SCIFIO: An extensible framework to support scientific image formats
In this short paper published in December 2016, Hiner et al. of the University of Wisconsin at Madison demonstrate their open-source library SCIFIO (SCientific Image Format Input and Output). Built on inspiration from the Bio-Formats library for microscopy image data, SCIFIO attempts to act as "a domain-independent image I/O framework enabling seamless and extensible translation between image metadata models." Rather than fight with the difficulties of repeating experiments based on data in proprietary formats, SCIFIO's open-source nature help with reproducibility of research results and proves "capable of adapting to the demands of scientific imaging analysis."
Laboratory Technician III – Microbiology
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Allergan markets a portfolio of best-in-class products that provide novel treatments for the central nervous system, eye care, medical aesthetics and dermatology, gastroenterology, women's health, urology, anti-infective and cardiovascular therapeutic categories.…
Laboratory Technician III
Allergan plc (NYSE: AGN) is a bold, global pharmaceutical company and a leader in a new industry model – Growth Pharma. Allergan is focused on developing, manufacturing and commercializing branded pharmaceuticals and biologic products for patients around the world.
Allergan markets a portfolio of best-in-class products that provide novel treatments for the central nervous system, eye care, medical aesthetics and dermatology, gastroenterology, women's health, urology, anti-infective and cardiovascular therapeutic categories.…
Manager, Clinical Quality
Celgene is a global biopharmaceutical company leading the way in medical innovation to help patients live longer, better lives. Our purpose as a company is to discover and develop therapies that will change the course of human health. We value our passion for patients, quest for innovation, spirit of independence and love of challenge.…
Principal Scientist, Immuno Oncology – Translational Development
Celgene is a global biopharmaceutical company leading the way in medical innovation to help patients live longer, better lives. Our purpose as a company is to discover and develop therapies that will change the course of human health. We value our passion for patients, quest for innovation, spirit of independence and love of challenge.…
JANUARY 19, 2017 3:00PM IST/9:30AM GMT: Role of Biobanks: Challenges & Opportunities in Cancer Research
This webinar focuses on discussing the prospective role of biobanking to facilitate the conduct of high quality research that helps enhance health and well-being of man kind.
Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 15, Issue 3
January 18, 2017 Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update Volume 15, Issue 3 In This Issue Webcast Focus JANUARY 18, 2017, 2:00 EST: Get the Most from your LabWare LIMS™ Solution In one hour we will explore how to get more value for your organization through optimizing, expanding, and upgrading your LabWare LIMS™. Articles Reducing the Unknowns: The Value of Lab Informatics Project Managers On every project there are things that we know and things that we don’t know. It is the project manager’s responsibility to plan for and manage both the knowns and the unknowns in order to deliver the project…Use of application containers and workflows for genomic data analysis
As technology progresses, it allows bioinformaticians to improve the efficiency of their data processing tools and provide better solutions for patient care. As this December 2016 paper by Schulz et al. points out, one way in which dramatic change can potentially occur in science's big data management is through the use of application virtualization. The researchers, based out of Yale, attempt to "demonstrate the potential benefits of containerized applications and application workflows for computational genomics research." They conclude this technology has the potential to "improve pipeline and experimental reproducibility since preconfigured applications can be readily deployed to nearly any host system."
John Muir Health to Install a Sectra Cloud-Based Archive for Enterprise Imaging
International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra announces that John Muir Health has purchased an archive to store radiology and cardiology studies in the cloud. All images in the enterprise will be archived in three geographically separate areas with fail-over capabilities.
JANUARY 26, 2017: The Top Five Mistakes Made in Selecting a LIMS and how to fix them
Live Webinar from Astrix on January 26th at 1PM EST. The LIMS selection process poses many risks to an organization. Join Astrix Technology Group as we provide a deep dive on the reasons why LIMS implenetations fail to achieve their goals and how to fix those issues.
JANUARY 18, 2017, 2:00 EST: Get the Most from your LabWare LIMS™ Solution
In one hour we will explore how to get more value for your organization through optimizing, expanding, and upgrading your LabWare LIMS™.
The case for a global clinical oncology digital archive
This brief non-peer-reviewed article by Sanjay Joshi, Isilon CTO of Healthcare and Life Sciences at the Dell EMC Emerging Technologies Team, looks at the global state of imaging in oncology clinical trials. His message? "[C]linical trials need to scale this critical imaging infrastructure component (the VNA) globally as a value-add and integrate it with clinical trials standards like the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) along with the large ecosystem of applications that manage trials." In other words, standards, security, and scale are as important as ever in dealing with data, and clinical imaging is no exception.
Reducing the Unknowns: The Value of Lab Informatics Project Managers
On every project there are things that we know and things that we don’t know. It is the project manager’s responsibility to plan for and manage both the knowns and the unknowns in order to deliver the project on-time, within budget, and meeting specifications.
Reducing the Unknowns: The Value of Lab Informatics Project Managers
On every project there are things that we know and things that we don’t know. It is the project manager’s responsibility to plan for and manage both the knowns and the unknowns in order to deliver the project on-time, within budget, and meeting specifications.American Academy of Forensic Sciences Holds 69th Annual Scientific Meeting in New Orleans
The American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) 69th Annual Scientific Meeting will take place Feb. 13-18, 2017, at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans. Themed "Our Future Reflects Our Past: The Evolution of Forensic Science" by AAFS President John E. Gerns, MFS, more than 4,000 national and international forensic professionals will assemble to discuss issues facing the profession and attend scientific sessions that focus on scientific advances that will affect the forensic sciences moving forward.
Ortho Clinical Diagnostics Receives CE Mark Approval for ORTHO CONNECT™ V2.0 Middleware Solution
Ortho Clinical Diagnostics (Ortho), a global leader of in vitro diagnostics, today announced that its ORTHO CONNECT™ V2.0 middleware solution is CE Marked, signifying conformity with all EU regulation.
IDBS Launches The E-WorkBook Cloud: Combining the Most Powerful R&D Software Platform with the Benefits and Flexibility of the Cloud
IDBS has today launched The E-WorkBook Cloud, an enterprise, Cloud-based platform designed specifically to meet the future challenges of scientific and R&D data management.
Informatics metrics and measures for a smart public health systems approach: Information science perspective
In this 2017 paper published in Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, Carney and Shea of the Gillings School of Global Public Health at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill take a closer look at what drives intelligent public health system characteristics, and they provide insights into measures and capabilities vital to the public health informatician. They conclude that "[a] common set of analytic measures and capabilities that can drive efficiency and viable models can demonstrate how incremental changes in smartness generate corresponding changes in public health performance." This work builds on existing literature and seeks "to establish standardized measures for smart, learning, and adaptive public health systems."
