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With the news earlier this month that Bioscrypt, a provider of identity verification technology, has tapped the UPEK TouchChip TCS1 fingerprint sensor for its new biometric physical access control readers, the issue of broader biometrics usage in healthcare IT is on the agenda again, experts say.
Driven partly by policies at the federal and especially the state levels, interest in and recognition of the value of mobilizing health information electronically has skyrocketed in the past year, said a report on the eHealth Initiative's 2006 Third Annual Survey of Health Information Exchange at the State, Regional and Community Levels.
Leveraging deduplication when backing up system edata can lower storage costs, reduce downtime and protect a company against expensive edata loss, experts said at an Oct. 18 webinar sponsored by Data Domain.
FDA-regulated life sciences companies that operate any remote offices or acquire other companies are facing increasing challenges when it comes to controlling edata and disparate operations, said experts at an Oct. 3 webinar sponsored by Avamar Technologies.
The pharmaceutical industry may become the largest RFID vertical market in the next two to three years as item-level tracking takes hold, according to a new bulletin from the Venture Development Corporation (VDC).
Excel's ease of use makes it even more important for FDA-regulated life sciences companies to focus on spreadsheet change control, lest they undermine their overall validation efforts, ABB Principal Consultant David Harrison said Oct. 11 at an audioconference sponsored by FDAnews.
What a company with a strong IT security compliance program has over other companies is the presence of a monitoring program that accurately assesses system operation at least monthly, says Jim Hurley, managing director of the Security Compliance Council at Symantec.
The spine market looks promising for a range of products, said Lazard Capital Markets analyst Alexander Arrow following a recent North American Spine Society trade show.
Using the “lab model” standard developed by the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) can help clinical trial sponsors transmit large laboratory data sets more efficiently, according to Bob Lyons of Nextrials, who was speaking at a CDISC conference in Bethesda, Md., Sept. 27.