biomedical
RSS biomedicalSupercomputing Solution Reduces IT Administration Needs at Research Institute
White Paper The University of Cincinnati Genome Research Institute (GRI) is a global hub for biomedical research, focusing on new therapies for cancer and metabolic diseases such as obesity and diabetes. Founded in 2002, GRI brings together a range of academic... [06 Jul 2008]
Opportunities in Molecular Biomedicine in the Era of Teraflop Computing
White Paper Advances in computer technology, along with the explosive growth in the size of biological databases, are bound to increase the role of and need for computers in biomedical research even further. Obviously, such support must be justified in terms... [03 Jul 2008]
Knowledge Representations and Indexing Using the Unified Medical Language System
White Paper In this white paper we report on the use of a large biomedical ontology, namely the UMLS [Unified Medical Language System] for the purpose of constructing and indexing knowledge representations of biomedical documents.We have introduced the role... [03 Jul 2008]
Biomedical Alloengineering Organization Uses High Technology to Provide High Touch Service
White Paper LifeNet Health prides itself on its safe, efficient, and compassionate service to donors' families, to patients, and to the healthcare professionals who perform life enhancing or lifesaving transplants using LifeNet Health allografts. [01 Jul 2008]
Biomedical Alloengineering Organization Uses High Technology to Provide High Touch Service
White Paper LifeNet Health prides itself on its safe, efficient, and compassionate service to donors' families, to patients, and to the healthcare professionals who perform life enhancing or lifesaving transplants using LifeNet Health allografts. [01 Jul 2008]
A Pharmaceutical Company Uses IBM's Business Insights Workbench to Mine Vast Stores of Structured and Unstructured Data
White Paper National Library of Medicine, contains nearly 15 million citations and abstracts in the life sciences and biomedical fields. The challenge was daunting: In the public domain alone, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office database contains more than... [01 Jul 2008]
Beckman Coulter Empowers Sales Force While Maintaining Control of Sensitive Information
White Paper Beckman Coulter, Inc.a leading manufacturer of biomedical testing instrument systems, tests, and supplies, is in the business of simplifying and automating laboratory processes. Beckman Coulter wanted to create an electronic SRM for its team, but... [30 Apr 2008]
Knowledge Augmentation for Aligning Ontologies: An Evaluation in the Biomedical Domain
White Paper Knowledge augmentation based on semantic relations embedded in concept names through various linguistic phenomena has proved a powerful technique, generating as many relations as are represented explicitly in FMA. [10 Apr 2008]
Semantic Integration in Biomedicine
White Paper The major component of the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) is the Metathesaurus, a repository of inter-related biomedical concepts. The two other knowledge sources in the UMLS are the Semantic Network, providing high-level categories used to... [10 Apr 2008]
Expanding Trade: A Powerful Weapon Against Terrorism
White Paper Defending the Homeland will involve more than beefing up security for the nation's airlines and other infrastructure, hiring additional law enforcement personnel and developing mechanisms to guard against biomedical threats. [10 Apr 2008]
ICD-10: Turning Regulatory Compliance Into Strategic Advantage - Are U.S. Health Plans and Providers Ready for ICD-10 Adoption?
White Paper In 2011, per the mandate of Senate Bill 628, the United States will move from the ICD-9 system of disease classification to ICD-10, a much more complex system that reflects recent advances in disease detection and treatment via biomedical... [13 Mar 2008]
Pharmaceutical Company Gains Fast, Comprehensive Access to Project Data
White Paper Creating a more efficient, effective development cycle is a priority for Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research (NIBR). Time means everything to pharmaceutical companies - speeding the drug development cycle enables fast time-to-market and a... [28 Feb 2008]
Irvine Biomedical Implements Microsoft Business Solutions - Great Plains
White Paper Due to the success with which its products have been received, IBI has experienced - and continues to experience - strong and rapid growth. This combination of market potential and success made it imperative that the company implement a business... [20 Feb 2008]
The Need for Acceleration Technologies to Achieve Cost-Effective Supercomputing Performance for Advanced Applications
White Paper Supercomputing has become an essential tool for many users, including those working in the scientific, engineering, biomedical, and financial disciplines. Although processing capabilities continue to advance, in many cases demand is increasing at... [14 Feb 2008]
LifeNet Health: Biomedical Alloengineering Organization Uses High Technology to Provide High Touch Service
White Paper LifeNet Health prides itself on its safe, efficient, and compassionate service to donors' families, to patients, and to the healthcare professionals who perform life enhancing or lifesaving transplants using LifeNet Health allografts. [06 Sep 2007]
