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Most Read News from Last Week…

Watch Out for Those Health Care Reform Polls
The Seminal, 2010-10-06

Unexpected way reform threatens smaller health plans
HR Morning, 2010-10-06

Hospital Layoffs, Though Worst in a Decade, Are Nowhere Near Peaking
BNET, 2010-10-06

Cleveland Clinic CEO: healthcare reform will increase costs
MedCity News, 2010-10-06

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Employers health group CEO: we need to focus on “real reform”
MedCity News, 2010-08-11
“Long before healthcare reform, medical home, and quality metrics became today’s buzz…”

Oregon Embarks on Public Health Plan Option
The Lund Report, 2010-08-11
“Those who fought so hard for a publicly-owned health insurance option during much of…”

Most Read News from Last Week…
Life Sciences Investing Rebounds in Q2 2010, Rising 52% from the Prior Quarter
PR Newswire, 2010-08-04
Pharma cuts 2,023 jobs in July
FiercePharma, 2010-08-04
A.M. Vitals: Pharma Companies Tapping Early-Stage Biotech Products
The Wall Street Journal, 2010-08-04
Feds Offer $51 Million for Health Insurance Exchanges
Inc.com, 2010-07-27

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“By 2020, globally we will be well over 25 zeta-bytes of data world wide“…

We are now way beyond terabytes (TB) and petabytes (PB), well into zeta-bytes (or “zettabytes”; ZB) of data. But what does this new frontier mean to all of us?

A zeta-byte is hard to envision but if a petabyte (also hard to envision) is the equivalent of “20 million 4-door filing cabinets full of text” then a zeta-byte is 20 TRILLION of these 4 -door filing cabinets! (there’s an “exabyte level” in there somewhere.)

A source that can describe this in technical as well as comparative terms can be found at WhatsAByte.com. Just click in the filing cabinet below to learn more:

4-Drawer Filing Cabinet

We get and manage your gigabytes of CI for easy access online!

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Jordan Zornes – Editor & Senior Analyst

This afternoon CDW and Ziff Enterprize teamed-up in a webinar to discuss the direction that data storage IT infrastructure is heading.

Chuck Brinkley IBM Storage Specialist at CDW shared his insights about the drivers of storage systems purchases. Trends statistics were at times predictable but most often surprising. Share this at your next wine and cheese social:

• By 2020 globally we will be well over 25 zeta-bytes of data world wide – Wow!

So what does a zeta-byte look like? (comparison chart to be published next week.)

For business, Brinkley goes on to say that when it comes to the need for storage capacity the main drivers vary by size of company out of 11 possible drivers:

• Large companies (>1,000 employees) the drivers are:

1. “Need for new capacity”
2. “Better virtualization capabilities”
3. Tied – “Better backup/recovery” and “Greater scalability”

• Medium-sized companies (100 -999 employees) drivers include:

1. “Need for new capacity”
2. “Better backup/recovery”
3. “Better virtualization capabilities”

• Small companies (<100 employees) drivers include:

1. “Need for new capacity”
2. “Better performance / reliability”
3. “Better backup/recovery”

Virtualization or online storage “cloud computing” comes into play as companies grow beyond 100 employees – A critical consideration as you grow your business.

Virtualization is now one of the top 2 to 3 drivers for larger corporations when making content management decisions – essentially non-existent five years ago.

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Victoria Hunsicker Sanko – Senior Editor

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Fear surrounds deal between nonprofit hospital, for-profit company
FierceHealthcare, 2010-07-14
“As nonprofit hospitals become increasingly attractive to for-profit companies looking to capture…”

Business versus Obama
MarketWatch, 2010-07-14
“When in doubt, whine about the government. That seems to be the latest corporate strategy…”

U.S. Advisers Say Keep Glaxo’s Avandia on Market
Reuters via BNET, 2010-07-14
“U.S. health advisers said GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s (GSK) diabetes drug Avandia should be allowed to…”

RXi Pharmaceuticals receives SBIR grant from National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Trading Markets, 2010-07-14
“RXi Pharmaceuticals Corporation, a RNAi-based therapeutic discovery and development company…”

Most Read News from Last Week…

Obama bypasses Senate for new Medicare chief
The Associated Press via The Seattle Times, 2010-07-07
Drug Prices in the US: Not So High After All?
Corante, 2010-07-07
Domestic medical travel could ratchet up pressure on local providers
FierceHealthcare, 2010-07-07
Generex Biotechnology Participates in Gateway to China Business Round Table Conference
Market Watch, 2010-07-07

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No man is an island. Neither is his medical record file.

To practice intelligent medicine and advance medical technology discovery and development, the power of consolidated medical data needs to be harnessed.

Clinical trials are not the only source of scientific discovery. Retrospective analysis of site-specific procedural and product use and consumption metrics reveal essential medical professional decision and use insights without violating the individual’s personal medical records, satisfying HIPPA and other regulations. And the later source of data can do so in a much more cost effective manner using current bar coding technologies and data entry, securely and selectively accessing remote hospital databanks. Since medical records for patient cohorts would be pulled as consolidated groups, no one person’s medical records would be inappropriately revealed.

But all has to operate in a virtual space to be fully accessible and must be fully compatible to be most effective. And what better way than through cloud computing where content management meets essential applications?

Ask yourself, “In this extremely tough economy, how will my company cost effectively manage its own content-rich databases of retrospective data to improve our decision-making capabilities?”

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Victoria Hunsicker Sanko
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If anyone has had a physician hand personal diagnostic films over for safe keeping it may stir thought about the future of  medical data storage.

The increasingly urgent need to manage the growing number of petabytes of diagnostic data is driving development of a new breed of personalized medicine.

Consider for example the recent WeirdMedical post from June 4 ["Weird New Advances in Ancient Device Material"]. The article gives you a glimpse into the future of how medical practitioners and industry may be able to gather and report on personal medical intelligence about a patient. According to Technology Review’s “10 Emerging Technologies 2010” or “TR10″ published by MIT in the article “Implantable Electronics,”

“Tufts University biomedical engineer Fiorenzo Omenetto is using silk as the basis for implantable optical and electronic devices that will act like a combination vital-sign monitor, blood test, imaging center, and pharmacy–and will safely break down when no longer needed.”

Further consider, this additional diagnostic data needs to be managed. We need to ask who will keep up with capturing and storing additional streams of data from this and other new sources in addition to those from current sources. We can barely manage now. As updated patient progress reports are produced, patient records transcribers, data entry techs, auto bar code readers, etc., will not be able to keep up. Data flow will be too rapid and voluminous.

We need intelligent capturing, recording and storing solutions for accurate retrieval   To be discussed next posting…is “intelligent cloud computing” the solution?

Let us help you master your business and competitor intelligence content management.

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Victoria Hunsicker Sanko
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