Advancing Medical Science Through Statistical Modelling

SME Partner for FP7 Projects

The EUs Framework Programme 7 is the most ambitious yet, targeting investment at research commercial businesses won’t pursue. Grants are provided to academic and science communities, helping cover the costs of discovering new ways to address issues impacting the European Community and beyond. Consortia comprising institutions and SMEs across the European States are enabled in [...]

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Healthcare Freakonomics

For some strange reason the healthcare sector manages to escape the sort of forensic analysis others are subjected to. There’s this strange coalition of patient confidentiality, ethics, professional integrity and public policy. These combine to create this “opaque soup” of information which nobody understands and even fewer believe.
In the UK we get bombarded by [...]

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Is the Future of High-Performance Computing Cloudy

High-performance computing (HPC) has come a long way for life sciences. Twenty years ago, expensive parallel supercomputers were required to render proteins in three dimensions (3-D) and run software that helped researchers understand their shape. Now 3-D rendering can be done on graphics cards in workstations, laptops, and even phones.
Compute clusters [...]

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Medical Devices Directive 93/42/EC

Yesterdays newsletter from the Association of British Healthcare Industries gave an Overview of Coming Changes under Directive 2007/47/EC as follows:
Clinical Data
Modifications have been made to a number of the articles and relevant annexes. These concern clinical data and its evaluation and there are a number of references to clinical data in the provisions of [...]

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Sharing Clinical Data

Aggregating and sharing data needs to be at the very heart of clinical research but a major barrier is the protection rightly afforded patients privacy. The question of who owns data is obvious at source, but as its aggregated that ownership becomes a lot less clear.
In Preparing Raw Clinical Data for Publication Trials [...]

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Open Source Keeping Computer Analysis Transparent

Ars Technica discusses the question of making not just the results but also the methodology available in Keeping Computers From Ending Sciences Reproducability
In recent years, scientists may have inadvertently given up on a key component of the scientific method: reproducibility. That’s an argument that’s being advanced by a number of people who have [...]

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What Is Clinical Informatics

Informatics is becoming a popular word in health care. In the past, limitations on data sharing have restricted the use of aggregated data in better understanding ways we can improve patient safety, at lower cost. Ethical considerations such as patient confidentiality, and technical constraints such as data storage and analysis software, have worked [...]

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Technology startups focus on diagnostics

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Oracle To Continue Support of MySQL

Discarding all the fuss made over the future of MySQL, Oracle clarified its plans to continue improving MySQL, and do it even better than Sun. Not only this, Edward Screven said, Oracle aims to improve many of MySQL features to make them compatible with Oracle apps.
Edward Screven, the chief corporate architect will now overlook the [...]

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New guidance on data sharing will protect patients

New guidance published on bmj.com this week sets out how personal information from clinical trials should be shared to help minimise risks to patient privacy.
Many peer reviewed journals now require authors to be prepared to share their raw, unprocessed data with other scientists or state the availability of raw data in published articles, but there [...]

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