Data & Analytics
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Re-Think Health Podcast: BioCompute – Open and Connected Gene Communication
The newly released IEEE 2791-2020 Standard for Bioinformatics Analyses Generated by High-Throughput Sequencing (HTS) facilitates an expedited bioinformatics communications exchange protocol amongst critical stakeholders in the clinical research phase. Maria Palombini, Director of Emerging Communities & Opportunities Development and Healthcare & Life Sciences (HLS) Practice Lead at the IEEE Standards…
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Sharing Analytics: Developing A Standard To Employ High Impact Analytics Without Stressing Networks
Since the recent outbreak of COVID-19, clinical researchers, drug manufacturers, economists, social scientists, and other experts have sought access to data for analytics. Much of the data resides in disparate networks and within organizational boundaries. It takes considerable time and effort to obtain permission to acquire this data, to gain…
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COVID-19 and Beyond: New IEEE 2791-2020 Standard Uses Bioinformatics to Speed Drug Development
Genome sequencing has enormous potential for personalized medicine, mitigating the next pandemic, and more. But it can’t live up to that potential if researchers don’t have a standardized way to communicate and share genome data analysis methods. Today, there are dozens of platforms, scripts, and tools for analyzing genome data,…
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Here is how technology is helping neurologists slow down dementia in older adults
The diagnosis of dementia is traumatic both for the patient and the patient’s family as it means incorporation of several changes in lifestyle; and it may also result in severe symptoms that might deteriorate many of the patient’s abilities to perform his day to day tasks. RELATED: IEEE Announces IT…
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IEEE @ SXSW 2018!
IEEE is returning to SXSW in 2018! You can help make it happen by voting for our sessions. Simply click the link below to view sessions and vote! To vote, just login to your SXSW account and click the “Vote Up” button. Comments are appreciated too. If you do not…
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Blockchain Data Governance Podcast
In this latest episode, Maria Palombini, Director, Emerging Communities & Opportunities Development at IEEE, speaks with Robert Barkovich, founder of Health Linkages, a data provenance company for healthcare. Robert will explain what data governance is and the role blockchain could potentially play.
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Actionable Data Book: A New Generation of Transformative Learning
Nobody need question that mobile devices have become a key fixture in our daily lives, particularly with the younger up-and-coming generations who are seemingly transfixed to their mobile phones and tablets as they move through their daily tasks. Educators, administrators, educational publishers and parents all are concerned with how best…
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6 Reasons Why Medical Apps Are Shifting to the Cloud
Whether it is due to regulators, patients or providers, the medical industry faces constant pressure to do more with less. Other industries facing similar pressures are mostly running their work on ‘cloud,’ allowing their team on-demand access to shared computing resources. In order to meet their business objectives, companies running…
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Assessing the Reality of Loss from Interoperable Data on the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain
The reality is, that the loss of interoperable data on the pharmaceutical supply chain costs more than dollars and cents. Lately, we hear the phrase “data interoperability” thrown around like an epidemic outbreak from the digital age. For one second, have we considered the true cost of “data interoperability on…
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New Book on Modern Standardization Provides Insight into Technical, Political, and Economic Crossroads of Engineering
Behind many published global technical standards, remarkable tales are waiting to be discovered. Themes of groundbreaking technological innovation, international “coopetition,” and consensus-building as diverse as the standards participants and technologies they represent explain why and in what ways standards came to be the norms that shape how much of the…