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With an increasing emphasis on informatics and the potential to better organize and manage data / information, there is an increasing interest in integrating the sources of laboratory data with the tools used by scientists to analyze, interpret and develop reports based on experiments and instrument measurements. Read more

How many times have you heard in your organisation:‘oh you can’t do that here, it’s impossible.’ Perhaps it’s something you’ve quietly thought yourself. While change is very often a great thing, bringing more good than bad to an organisation, many of us look at it as a time-consuming upheaval to our daily working lives and prefer to recoil into the comfortable space of the familiar. Pharma IQ has put the feelers out into the Biotech community and come up with some Top Tips which will help make what appears impossible in your organisation, possible Read more

Advancements in healthcare technology, apart from improvement of quality of care, are almost always associated with cost cutting. The US has the highest spending on healthcare in the world, at over 17% of its GDP. It is likely to reach $4 trillion by 2015. Read more

Necessary action is being taken to reduce costs through mandatory implementation of EMR/EHR, maintenance of minimum medical loss ratios for hospitals, and an overall emphasis on cost effectiveness. Many healthcare organisations have uses some form of outsourcing, offshoring or a mix of both. Read more

The question that arises out of the numerous challenges faced by the life sciences industry is - how do these companies evolve in terms of their solutions to improve patient outcomes? This industry is amongst the leaders in terms of innovation and research & development. The next step in innovation is adopting an integrated organizational digital framework supported by real-time analytics. Read more

The need for efficiencies in the R&D process, an emphasis on intellectual property protection and the need for greater integration between labs is encouraging the adoption of ELNs, which are rapidly becoming the Swiss army knives of laboratory informatics. Read more

Lab professionals are now expected to deal with increasing amounts of data in a shorter space of time, with smaller budgets. Not only is this placing pressure on human resources, but the physical resources used for laboratory informatics are also feeling the strain. Read more

Public healthcare expenditure in Thailand is primed to hit $11 billion (£7 billion) by 2015 as the Ministry of Health continues to enact National Public Health Information Reform. At the heart of the strategy is the idea that improved technology can help reduce costs and the standardisation of public healthcare data will improve delivery and ultimately bring with it a more streamlined and effective healthcare industry. Read more

Vishal Bali, chief executive officer of Fortis Healthcare, explained: "We need to ensure in Asia that we continue to ensure that we do not go into an era like the developed economies in particularly the US where 71 per cent of the GDP is spent on healthcare." Read more

We are at the age of mobility and instant access; technology is incorporated in nearly every aspect of today’s enterprise. The reality in businesses today: to achieve agility and do ‘business as unusual’. IT departments are now pressured to evolve and value-add to the organisation. Read more

Over the past few years, the UK healthcare IT market has grown exponentially to reach an estimated value of almost $3 billion (£1.83 billion) in 2011, making it the second largest in Europe after Germany. And it seems the UK market is set to enjoy more growth than virtually every other region in years to come, though the entire continent is experiencing a notable upsurge in investment. Read more