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As more commercial fleets enjoy the benefits of IoT / M2M vehicle telematics, customers are seeking more reliable connections, with flexible rate plans and seamless coverage across geographic areas, including remote locations.

TWIST BIOSCIENCE

Genomics Research Center Discovers Sources of Childhood Epilepsy Using Twist Custom Panels

The Center for Applied Genomics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is world-renowned for its work detecting the genetic causes of some of the most prevalent childhood diseases. As one of the world’s largest genetics research and analytical facilities, the Center collaborates with researchers in the academic, public, and private sectors; and has access to state-of-the-art, high- throughput genoty...

HIMSS

Apple Goes FHIR - A Work in Progress

When Apple announced that it would tap into mobile personal health records with a FHIR-based app earlier this year, many in the industry got pretty excited. Insights went to the US to see how the pilot phase is going. At this early stage, many hospitals seem to be relatively satisfied.

SEGMENT

Reuters TV Uses Customer Data to Build a Personalized News Service

How the company fined-tuned its advertising and marketing campaigns with customer data insights from Segment and increased users by 22X.

DUN & BRADSTREET

Win More Deals by Targeting Buying Groups / Shift Your Approach for B2B Sales Success

Sales teams are seeing a shift in the sales landscape. Rather than searching for individual leads, they're seeing success is tied to targeting buying groups.

Traditionally, sales teams spent time and effort on prospecting, finding, and developing leads that indicate the promise of customer wins. Yet recent trends show that one person rarely makes all the important buying decisions.

HEALTHCARE IT NEWS

Jack McCarthy’s Healthcare IT News Blog

A compilation of daily news about the healthcare world

STANFORD SOCIAL INNOVATION REVIEW

Improving Household Balance Sheets

In 2008, Brandee McHale, the chief operating officer of Citi Foundation, was having second thoughts. McHale, who is responsible for developing the overall strategy, grantmaking, and operations of the foundation—which supports financial programs for low-income families—had begun to question the effectiveness of some of the organization’s approaches.

FLYWIRE

Why Patients are Headed to Malls for Care, Not Hospitals

American malls are taking on new partners – healthcare clinics. That’s because patients are finding walk-in clinics an easier and more gratifying way to manage their healthcare. In fact, the number of medical clinics at malls has risen by almost 60% since 2017, according to a recent report from CNN Business.
The report calls this trend “medtail,” blending the simplicity and ease of use for consumers with medical services.
Driving the movement to malls is patient worries about the complexity a...

TWIST BIOSCIENCE

Cancer Genomic Research Forges Ahead

The fight against cancer wages on, as researchers steadily increase their understanding of this wildly diverse and complex group of diseases. In the field of cancer genomics, scientists continue to define molecular defects in the genome to turn discoveries into treatment and prevention campaigns.

HEALTHCARE IT NEWS

Guide to population health events and sessions at HIMSS18

Population Health has been among the most intriguing topics the last few years at HIMSS and the roster of related educational sessions and events at HIMSS18 suggest that it will again be among the most prevalent themes at the health IT show.

Here is our roundup of population health session highlights at HIMSS18.

TWIST BIOSCIENCE

Take your DNA to the Movies with CRISPR

The development of new uses for the CRISPR gene editing technique is continuously expanding the horizon of synthetic biology. In a recent demonstration, researchers announced a new CRISPR-based technology to enable the recording of digital data, such as a GIF of a galloping horse, in a population of living bacteria.

WVCULTURE.ORG

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Charleston Gazette-Mail

West Virginian Of The Year

Henry Louis "Skip" Gates: Superscholar, writer and more

Sunday Gazette-Mail

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - "Come in, come in," Henry Louis Gates Jr. says with an easy charm. He takes a visitor's arm, and begins pointing out the artifacts on his office walls.

There is a Nigerian tapestry, a photo display from the mid-1800s of the first black graduates of Harvard University, paintings and sculptures.

"Some of these are mine," Gates says. "I had my students...

CRN

5 Hidden Costs of Cloud Migration

Cloud computing may offer a new, easier way of managing IT resources, but make sure you know all the costs involved....

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