BioHealth News Archive

What Percentage of Office-Based Physicians Were Using Electronic Health Records as of December 2012? – iHealthBeat

What Percentage of Office-Based Physicians Were Using Electronic Health Records as of December 2012? – iHealthBeat

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17 of the 30 projected fastest-growing jobs in the U.S. this decade are in healthcare | MedCity News

17 of the 30 projected fastest-growing jobs in the U.S. this decade are in healthcare | MedCity News

This graph is a good visual depiction of how aging baby boomers, advances in technology and shifts in the way healthcare is delivered under…

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Could your heartbeat be your password? | MedCity News

Could your heartbeat be your password? | MedCity News

With all the concern (and liability) hospitals and their partners face to keep patient medical data secure and private, one new biometric security innovation…

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Hopkins partners with Baltimore investment firm on teaching and internship program – baltimoresun.com

Hopkins partners with Baltimore investment firm on teaching and internship program – baltimoresun.com

Johns Hopkins University's Whiting School of Engineering said Tuesday it will partner with Campbell & Co., a Baltimore-based investment firm, in a teaching and…

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BD Diagnostics launches BD Viper System in U.S. – Vaccine News Daily

BD Diagnostics launches BD Viper System in U.S. – Vaccine News Daily

BD Diagnostics, a part of Becton Dickinson and Company, announced on Tuesday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared the launch of…

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Health IT Spending To Hit $34.5B in 2014, Report Finds – iHealthBeat

Health IT Spending To Hit $34.5B in 2014, Report Finds – iHealthBeat

Health care organizations in North America are projected to spend more than $34.5 billion on health IT in 2014 to comply with health care…

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WellDoc Expands Board of Directors and Advisory Team

WellDoc Expands Board of Directors and Advisory Team

WellDoc® announces the appointments of Dr. David Levy, Terry Lierman, Donald Almeida and Michael Greenebaum to its Board of Directors. In addition, the company…

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Global Trade Forums – Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce

Global Trade Forums – Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce

MEXICO-U.S. INNOVATIVE BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES Tuesday, September 17, 2013; 7:30 AM - 10:30 AM Mexico is currently the 3rd largest goods trading partner to the…

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Technology: The Cure for Rising Healthcare Costs? – MIT Technology Review

Technology: The Cure for Rising Healthcare Costs? – MIT Technology Review

In a financially stretched healthcare market, medical technology is sometimes seen as an expensive luxury. But use of the RIGHT technology can actually cut…

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Cost-Saving Innovation Needed in Health Care – MIT Technology Review

Cost-Saving Innovation Needed in Health Care – MIT Technology Review

Moore’s Law predicts that every two years the cost of computing will fall by half. That is why we can be sure that tomorrow’s…

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Webcast – Is the Pharmaceutical Innovation Model Broken? And can Open Innovation Mend it?

Webcast – Is the Pharmaceutical Innovation Model Broken? And can Open Innovation Mend it?

Sign up for the live Q&A Webcast > Date & time: October 1, 2013 at 16:00 Central European Time (US: 10:00 EST, 7:00 PST)…

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5 more must-know emerging tech trends for healthcare innovators (readers’ version) | MedCity News

5 more must-know emerging tech trends for healthcare innovators (readers’ version) | MedCity News

Once the healthcare innovator’s guide to must-know tech terms for the next decade of medicine hit on Monday, the feedback started coming in. It’s…

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NOT-OD-13-109: NIH Offers Niche Assessment Program to SBIR and STTR Phase

NOT-OD-13-109: NIH Offers Niche Assessment Program to SBIR and STTR Phase

NIH announces the availability of a Niche Assessment Program for its SBIR/STTR Phase I awardees funded in fiscal years (FY) 2013 and 2014. All…

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Montgomery County Rocks the Inc. 500 List

Montgomery County Rocks the Inc. 500 List

Ten of Maryland's nineteen fastest-growing companies are located in Montgomery County – including the state's highest-ranking company and two of our incubator companies! Ten…

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UMB Pharmacy Researchers Develop Promising Chronic Pain Drug

UMB Pharmacy Researchers Develop Promising Chronic Pain Drug

A team of researchers led by Andrew Coop, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences (PSC) at the University of Maryland…

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