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• Northwest Radiology Network implements new enterprise solution to dramatically improve medical records management
  IBM has announced that Northwest Radiology Network has gone live with a new virtualized enterprise of IBM servers and storage to support its growing medical imaging needs, enabling its doctors to recover medical image reports faster for analysis with remote 24x7 access to its medical image report system.
• Bio-IT World cover story: There is only one IBM
  Trying to describe in a single story the full scope of IBM’s Life Sciences and Healthcare activities and related work being done by IBM Research is at best ambitious and at worst foolhardy. Big Blue may be unique in the corporate world in terms of the sheer number, diversity, and depth of its activities.
• UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School uses high performance IBM computer in pursuit of medical treatments
  Researchers at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School have selected a high performance IBM computer to perform research they hope will one day lead to more effective treatment of medical conditions like infertility and thyroid problems.
• IBM supercomputer bolsters cancer research
  IBM has announced the deployment of Canada’s fastest research supercomputer at the Ontario Cancer Institute, University Health Network. The new system will aid in the search for more effective cancer treatments through automation, high resolution imaging and computer-based image classification for protein analysis.
• IBM helps Quebec hospitals protect patients against drug interactions
  Hospitals and healthcare facilities in the Lower St. Lawrence, Gaspe Peninsula/Magdalen Islands and Outaouais regions of Canada have invested $2 million to implement the advanced SyPhaC pharmaceutical management system, which uses IBM technology and services to help automate services offered by hospital pharmacies.
• IBM and Siemens healthcare team to help community hospitals reduce operating costs and energy consumption
  At a time when concerns over spiraling healthcare costs and global environmental issues have grown dramatically, Siemens and IBM have announced that they will work together to help community hospitals reduce their operating costs and energy consumption.
• IBM awarded 10-year contract for Bristol-Myers Squibb human resources services
  IBM has announced a 10-year, $324 million Business Transformation Outsourcing (BTO) agreement with Bristol-Myers Squibb to transform and support many of the company’s global human resource (HR) functions.
• IBM calls on healthcare providers to forge new delivery models that redefine value and engage consumers
  In its study entitled, Healthcare 2015 and care delivery: Delivery models refined, competencies defined, IBM calls on health systems to collaborate in achieving new milestones in defining, measuring and delivering healthcare value, and activating consumers who will become increasingly responsible for their own healthcare.
• Made in IBM labs: New data sharing technology speeds international collaboration to identify and respond to infectious diseases
  IBM, in collaboration with the Nuclear Threat Initiative’s Global Health and Security Initiative and the Middle East Consortium on Infectious Disease Surveillance, has created a unique technology that standardizes the method of sharing health information and automates the analysis of infectious disease outbreaks.
• Storage Virtualization in action: Palomar Pomerado Health moves to the forefront of digital healthcare with IBM Storage Virtualization
  IBM has announced that Palomar Pomerado Health (PPH), the largest public health district in California, has implemented a new virtualized information infrastructure, enabling PPH to manage and store electronic medical records and improving the availability of critical information within a manageable storage infrastructure.
• Kalbe collaborates with IBM to build green data center and reduce energy consumption
  IBM and Kalbe, a leading Indonesian pharmaceutical and health company, have announced a collaborative effort to build a new energy efficient “green data center” and undergo a major data center consolidation project to meet the technology requirements of Kalbe’s expanding business, while simultaneously saving energy.
• Georgia State adds new IBM supercomputer to keep pace with demand
  Georgia State University and IBM have announced that the university has purchased an IBM System Cluster 1350 supercomputer through a regional partnership program between IBM and the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA).
• IBM and partners utilizing SOA strategy to help healthcare providers improve efficiency and patient care
  IBM has announced it is collaborating with nine business partners to help healthcare providers, clinics and hospitals improve productivity, increase quality and reduce costs through the use of service oriented architecture (SOA). The partners are working to develop new healthcare applications using the IBM SOA Foundation.
• IBM opens new 3D Virtual Healthcare Island on Second Life
  IBM debuted at HIMSS®08 its newest island in Second Life: IBM Virtual Healthcare Island. The island is a unique, three-dimensional representation of the challenges facing today’s healthcare industry and the role information technology will play in transforming global healthcare-delivery to meet patient needs.
• Bycast and IBM selected by Richardson Regional Medical Center
  Richardson Regional Medical Center has standardized on Bycast StorageGRID® storage management software to store and protect Richardson Regional’s mission critical reference data within its enterprise archive. IBM’s Storage business delivers the Bycast software to market as part of its Grid Medical Archive Solution (GMAS).
• IBM unveils the next generation of Enterprise Health Analytics
  IBM has announced a comprehensive portfolio of health analytics solutions for health systems. IBM’s proven Enterprise Health Analytics harness the power of massive information generated by the healthcare industry by converting it into new, data-driven intelligence.
• IBM unveils ten new and enhanced industry solutions enabled by Cognos
  IBM has introduced ten industry solutions that unlock the business value of information for customers across key industries including healthcare and life sciences. The new Information on Demand offerings unite IBM’s SOA and industry expertise with the powerful business intelligence capabilities of recently acquired Cognos.
• Mayo Clinic, IBM establish medical imaging research center
  Mayo Clinic and IBM have announced the creation of a collaborative research facility aimed at advancing medical imaging technologies to improve patient care. The Medical Imaging Informatics Innovation Center (MI3C) is an extension of a Mayo-IBM research collaboration anno