life science innovation

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A look at life science innovation brought on by physician-biopharm tech hybrids

In this series, Dialogues+ is taking a look at innovation brought about through collaborations between physicians and biopharmaceutical/medical technology companies. Today, we look to potential future innovations and recent developments from the National Institutes of Health. Accelerating Medicines Partnership In February 2014, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a new public-private partnership, the Accelerating […]

Health IT

HIMSS 2014: business and technology innovation get closer

If one took the prevalence of analytics at HIMSS at face value, sophisticated implementation of population health management is already a done deal. This is obviously not the case. However, this year, it was relatively easy to see real progress and momentum in the alignment of IT to innovative care and business processes. Hillary Clinton’s […]

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Open-sourced in Seattle: A fated collision of software talent and life science researchers

Elizabeth K. Nelson, Ph.D. also contributed to this article. A decade ago, LabKey Software’s founders recognized that scientists sought something beyond static, shrink-wrapped, closed-source software tools.  They needed living, open tools that could be customized to their specialized needs, then quickly extended to match new experimental methods and data types. Beyond these basic requirements, they […]