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The field of Health Informatics

Health Informatics is catching up as a field of health and Information Technology. At its barest, it can be understood as being the area that concerns the use of IT in health. However, Health Informatics goes beyond being just this. It consists of the entire IT ecosystem in the healthcare industry, which means that individual healthcare units use IT via a connected system that helps them to coordinate health information…

Understanding Medical Identity Theft and ways of preventing it

Medical Identity Theft is a common phenomenon in today's situation, where most health records are digitized. Although a lot of precaution goes into the security and protection of these records, Medical Identity Theft is a cause for worry.

The most common types of data that are stolen are Social Security Number (SSN), name and the Medicare number, the most potent tools with which to…

The constant pressure on health services is an age old cliche, we need to constantly look at ways of improving the method of delivery with the growing demand of patients. We believe that everyone in the world should have access to safe, fast, affordable healthcare. Yet our healthcare services are falling short. Technology that connects patients with high quality care is part of the solution and we think we’re uniquely positioned to build it.

This correlates with the latest…

By, Scott Thielman, PhD

Imagine you have age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of blindness in adults over the age of 65. What are your options? For current patients, the treatment options are extremely limited. …

Clinical trials are medical research studies to test whether different treatments are safe and how well they work. Some trials involve healthy members of the public, and others involve patients who may be offered the option of taking part in a trial during their care and treatment.

Over the past decade, India has become an important destination for many international pharmaceutical companies looking to…

Medical Writing Services

After so much of trouble and difficulty to the physicians, researchers and healthcare companies to do healthcare composing at various points of your energy and effort, certain support companies have hit the market. Now you can meet any of your healthcare composing demand by just obtaining a support from these companies.

Writing on various healthcare professions is always…

A huge amount of data is generated through various phases of clinical research. The data has to be proficiently managed in order to draw relevant conclusions, file regulatory submissions and publish results and findings in research journals. Clinical Data Management (CDM) is the mainstay of clinical/medical research process needed for collection, interpretation and analysis of clinical data.

CDM is a…

Medical communication is the procedure for sharing medical education between pharmaceutical drug companies, physicians and other health professionals. It plays a vital role in raising awareness of medicines. Medical communication is essentially accomplished by medical communication agencies. Medical communications agencies are also called medical education agency or ‘MedComms’ firm.

WorkSureTM, a medical…

Sharing is an integral part of a health professional's medical education. Health professionals learn by sharing clinical knowledge, and by experience through examples in the form of  clinical cases. InsightMedi is a mobile app that makes it possible to share medical images and expertise and learn from discussion and clinical collaboration from a global base of health professionals. The InsightMedi network brings the knowledge, tools, resources and collaboration you need for your cases in…

WorkSure a First medical service KPO in India is committed to provide Medical Writing services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies. Our aim is to provide unmatched expert solutions, collaborative efficiency.…

 WorkSure provides end to end complete clinical data management solutions from Data Management Plan to Database Lock.…

Clinical Data Management (CDM) industry is possibly the most booming area of the bio services industry. Collection and validation of clinical trials data play an essential role in…

Leading pharmaceutical and biotech companies are increasingly under pressure to deliver effective new products in shorter time frames while minimizing the development costs. The structure, activities, resources of new product, planning regarding launch and successful commercialization of new product are main areas of focus of for medical affairs department in all the pharmaceutical companies. Many critical activities take place well in advance of the actual launch of a new…

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Clinical research CRC is a person who is a specialized research professional, who will be working with or under the direction of a principal investigator (PI). A CRC will give whole support, promote and coordinate the daily clinical trial activity while playing a critical role in the conduct of study…

Digital wellness information are very popular and in demand in healthcare methods these days. Many methods these days, such as medical data management services use this application for saving all their information.

There are a few individuals who are…

Nanotechnology is making fast advances in medicine. I have written about it before here and in "The Future of Medicine - Megatrends in Healthcare." A nanometer is one billionth of a meter. New science and technology based on the nanometer refers to the ability to manipulate individual atoms and molecules to build machines on a scale of nanometers or to create materials and structures from the bottom up with novel properties.…

“An ounce of prevention” we all know is good medicine. An example is colonoscopy. It was time for mine so after some lengthy procrastination I called and set up an appointment which I soon found a perfectly good reason to postpone for a few weeks. A common occurrence. The government wants me (and you) to not procrastinate, at least not because of the cost. The Affordable Care…

There are just a few key reasons why Medicare has become inordinately expensive. There is no end in sight for cost escalation. But there are some obvious solutions and they all begin with chronic illnesses. 

Chronic illness – diabetes, heart failure, cancer, chronic lung disease, etc. – are increasing at exponential rates; are caused largely by lifestyle behaviors; and…

Primary care physicians (PCPs) have been marginalized by Medicare for decades with low reimbursement rates for routine office visits which has led to the 15-20 minute office visit with 10-12 minutes of actual “face time” and a panel of patients that well exceeds 2000. 

Is there a good solution to the Medicare cost and quality issues? Setting aside either the…