Stories about: Mayo Clinic

Intel on Sunday launched a home health care device that helps patients manage chronic conditions and connect with their doctors.

Microsoft continues to sign up partners to support its mission to create an online repository for patient information. On Monday the company announced a partnership with AT&T and Compuware subsidiary Covisint to set up an Internet-based information exchange between the companies' e-health systems.

IBM researchers and a team of doctors are building a database of digital images that they hope will enable oncologists to diagnose and treat cancer patients faster and with more success.

Andrew Galbus was a programmer/analyst at a food manufacturing company in the mid-1990s when he read Edward Yourdon's Decline and Fall of the American Programmer. Galbus says the book made him realize that his employer was not helping him build a sustainable career in the IT sector. "It made me think, 'Do I want a job or a career, and do I want just a career in a company or a career in the IT industry?'" Galbus says.

IBM Monday released the source code for its Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) to encourage independent software vendors (ISV) to use the framework for the creation of complex, enterprise-ready text analytics applications on a standards-based platform.

Beta testers and other potential users of Cisco Systems' Application-Oriented Networking (AON) technology last week praised its potential to serve as a secure gateway between different applications, both within corporate networks and for business-to-business uses.

Hoping to harness a few million of the personal computers are not already running the SETI@home screen saver, IBM and United Devices on Tuesday launched a new World Community Grid project designed to act as a clearing house for humanitarian computing projects.

IBM has announced the first commercial life science customer for its Blue Gene/L computer, the company’s next generation supercomputer.

Every year Dave Raspallo, CIO at Textron Financial, found himself having to replace a third of his 1,200 PCs. But he grew tired of the cost of the annual ritual, and he began swapping out his desktops for thin clients. Forty percent of those PCs are now gone, and many more will disappear next year.

The convergence of life sciences and IT, now in its early stages, means that we'll live longer, perhaps significantly so, as doctors have better access to data that will help them prevent, diagnose and treat diseases, Caroline Kovac, the general manager of IBM Corp.'s life sciences group, said Wednesday at the Bio-IT World Conference and Expo.

The Mayo Clinic is teaming up with IBM to put the health center's huge patient records database to work in helping to more quickly identify patients for clinical trials.