Predictive Analytics for Patient Adherence

The New Medicine Service (NMS) offered by Engalnd’s  NHS community pharmacies came into effect since 1st October 2011. NMS is a patient adherene service and focuses on patients with long term conditions that have been prescribed new medicines. It is hoped that NMS will lead to the following outcomes: improve medicines adherence increase patient engagement with [...]

AstraZeneca Announce Real-World Evidence Data Collaboration

AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP (NYSE: AZN) and HealthCore, Inc., the health outcomes research subsidiary of WellPoint, Inc. (NYSE: WLP), announced a collaborative agreement to conduct real-world studies designed to determine how to most effectively and economically treat disease Unlike controlled clinical trials, real-world evidence studies use observational data such as electronic medical records, claims information and [...]

personalized medicine might be making drug development more complicated

According to a new report from the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development at Tufts University 12 to 50 percent of the drugs companies are developing, depending on the company, involved a personalized medicine approach. The Tufts report is based on a survey of 25 companies, large and small, to which 16 companies [...]

Paper instead ‘chips’ may be used as medical testing devices to fight disease

George Whitesides, a Harvard chemistry professor has designed technology in which patients’ blood is dropped on a piece of paper, and water-repellent ink resembling that of a comic book creates diagnostic colors on the other side, CNN reports. The technology may be incorporated into mobile phones, according to CNN. Whitesides’ prototype allows for testing of [...]

UK’s Medical Research Council grants Clinical Research consortium $6.4 million to develop chips & software to use mobile phones/PCs as testing devices for sexually transmitted disease (STD)

UK’s Medical Research Council grants a Clinical Research consortium $6.4 million to develop chips & software to use mobile phones/PCs as testing devices for sexually transmitted disease (STD) If successful individuals will drop their blood, urine or saliva on a mobile chip, which they then insert into a mobile phone or PC. Software on the [...]

Oracle starts the Oracle Health Sciences Institute (OHSI), in partnership with Sun Labs

The Institute is focused on research that will accelerate IT innovation to advance personalized medicine and the delivery of safe and effective   treatments and health care services to patients around the globe. OHSI will work in tandem with academic research centers, focusing on a targeted set of research areas fundamental to the R&D and [...]

How useful would be the Single-patient clinical trials for improving the hopes of Personalized medicine

Single patient Clinical Trial are not new idea, FDA did not focus since such trial canot prove the efficacy and safety of medicine over a large pool of patient with sufficient data. But I was forced to re-think after reading the article http://www.technologyreview.in/biomedicine/12537/ why cant we use the the concept mentioned in to overcome the [...]

Oracle and Inforsense Integrating Clinical And Genomics Data for Personalized Medicine

BIO-IT WORLD COVERAGE ON INTEGRATING CLINICAL AND GENOMICS DATA AND PLATFORMS FOR PERSONALIZED MEDICINE The March-April 2009 issue of Bio-IT World features Dana-Farber Cancer Institute cover story on integrating clinical and genomics data including details on the organization’s work with Oracle and InforSense, as well as a byline article on platforms for personalized medicine by [...]

Deadline for Personal Genomics Companies

State of New York has issues warning against Personal genomics companies , after they have received many complaints. Now the State of California Department of Helath (CDPH) is trying to keep consumer genetic testing companies from offering their services to the state’s residents and last week sent letters to 13 firms saying they are violating [...]

Microarrays in Personalized Medicine- $200M-US Aided Personalized Medicine Program

I have written quiet often about this subject and companies that promises solution for personalized medicine. especially the use of genomics information in organ transplant patients and cancer treatment. XDx and Genomic Health are two such companies . XDX has applied microarray, to monitor the immune system, with the help of Gene expression to address [...]

personalized, safety alerts about your medication

A service launched by quintiles claims to be one of the first to provide post launch drug safety information about drugs directly to any one who is using them.  iGuard is a web-based services that will help you take medication safety without the help of  healthcare professionals. You can register on the site for free [...]

CombiMatrix Molecular Diagnostics Launches Microarray Test for Detection of Autism Spectrum Disorder

CombiMatrix  has completed the clinical validation of the  BAC array CGH based clinical microarray tests. ATScan is designed to detect known genomic copy-number variations  associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder and this test is now available to physicians and consumers.

Wireless ID Skin Patch Technology for Personal diagnostics using cell phones

Medgadget reports about the IP Development Company Gentag and Frank Sammeroff working on a new smart, wireless ID skin patch technology that aims to reduce medical errors in hospitals worldwide,   This patented, non-invasive solution combines disposable skin patches with RFID tags and cellphones, enabling doctors and nurses to use their handsets or wireless PDAs [...]

Medicine OnDemand

Move over the TeleMedicine and the usual chutzpah, Yesd Web2.0 is a bubble thats going to burst, but in healthcare field strangled by Insurannce companies, web2.0 is giving a whiff of relief to some people atleast , How!  WebMD ,MayoClinic ,eMedTV are few site that offers to help you through videos, blogs and other channels Officials at the Department of Health [...]

Gene Logic sells in genomics division

It hardly a week I have wrote about acquisition and mergers , it seems the rain is noit going to stop any time soon, the latest one , to give away the home plate is Genelogic agreeing to sell its genomics division to India HQ Ocimum Biosolutions subject to the authorization of the transaction at [...]

Oracle Openworld 2007- Personalized Genomics session

Its the time -Personalized Genomics Advances in genetic information and laboratory technologies mean new ways to diagnose disease and determine patient risk. The wealth of genetic information makes it harder to provide meaningful information. During Oracle OpenWorld 2007 Oracle is presenting how laboratory information systems principles and Oracle customer relationship management and enterprise resource planning [...]

Pharmacogenomics has started

IT been a long time since my last post, So I thought of catching up with other blogger before going to do anything myslef. So here is what got my attention from Alla Katsnelson blog on the scientist magazine  that  USFDA approved updated labeling for the widely used blood-thinning drug, Coumadin, to explain that people’s [...]

Gone in 60seconds-

Personalized Medicine in 60 Seconds Bioinformatics was a BOOM its was predicted to be next big thing, yet the industry which had hundereds of fragmented mom and pop kind small companies are now under mergers and acquisitions, Does everyone got their money back. Bioinformatics is yet to become the big Billion billion Dollar, and on [...]

Affymetrix expands into personalized medicine The next big thing

Affymetrix expands into personalized medicine! Why because The next big thing in health care? is You the individual personalized medicine is the place step every one wants to be. Roche recently went after Nimblegen for a small foothold in this developing ssicne field, Now its the turn of Affymetrix the leader in microarray DNA chips. [...]

Genetics and Business

I have been busy lately but found some time to go through an interesting story and a good article published in scientist magazine Father-in-law of now-infamous extensively drug-resistant TB patient studies tuberculosis at the CDC, and is now under review by the agency Genotyping with PCR -How to choose the right approach I am working on an [...]