IBM Press Releases - Healthcare and Life Sciences - United States

Impax Laboratories Drives Stronger Performance with IBM Business Analytics

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:21:18 GMT

IBM announced today that Impax Laboratories, Inc. (NASDAQ: IPXL), a technology-based specialty pharmaceutical company, is using IBM business analytics technology to gain stronger insights into their business and better predict risks and market opportunities.


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IBM Moves Closer To Creating Computer Based on Insights From The Brain

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:01:53 GMT

Today at SC 09, the supercomputing conference, IBM announced significant progress toward creating a computer system that simulates and emulates the brain’s abilities for sensation, perception, action, interaction and cognition, while rivaling the brain’s low power and energy consumption and compact size.


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IBM Scientists Reinvent Medical Diagnostic Testing

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:41:09 GMT

IBM scientists have created a one-step point-of-care-diagnostic test, based on an innovative silicon chip, that requires less sample volume, is significantly faster, portable, easy to use, and can test for many diseases, including one of world's leading causes of death, cardiovascular disease*. The results are so quick and accurate that a small sample of a patient’s serum or blood, could be tested immediately following a heart attack, to enable the doctor to quickly take a course of action to help the patient survive.


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IBM Research Helps Italian Orthopedic Institute Perform Deep Analytics to Treat Rare Skeletal Diseases

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:50:55 GMT

BOLOGNA, Italy, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM)announced today that its Research scientists are working with the Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute, in Bologna, Italy, to use information technology to better address treatment and research for rare genetic skeletal diseases.


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IBM Launches Health Analytics Center

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:15:04 GMT

IBM today announced the launch of its Health Analytics Solution Center, part of a network of global centers addressing the growing demand for advanced analytics needed to help hospitals and medical staff improve decision-making and provide higher quality care.


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IBM Rolls Out Innovative Healthcare Management System for Spain's Castilla y Leon Region

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:39:52 GMT

IBM and Telvent Global Services today announced they have entered into a multi-million euro agreement with Castilla y Leon Government to improve management of the province's healthcare centers. The transformation of Castilla y Leon's healthcare centers back office will allow for greater communication among primary care centers, specialized care centers, and emergency and central services allowing the healthcare system to run more efficiently, providing improved care for the local community.


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IBM To Provide Employees With 100% Primary Health Care Coverage, New Wellness Rebate

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:38:28 GMT

IBM today announced that it will provide U.S. employees with 100 percent coverage for primary health care, beginning in 2010. Employees enrolled in IBM plans will receive full coverage throughout the year -- no coinsurance or deductible -- for in-network primary care with their internist, family practitioner, pediatrician, general practitioner or primary osteopath. IBM will be among the first U.S. companies to cover primary care at 100 percent.


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IBM Builds High-end Information Technology Infrastructure Platform for Tiens Group

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:56:44 GMT

Tiens Group Co., Ltd., a biotechnology company specializing in manufacturing, retail and international trade, and IBM have entered into strategic partnership to build an advanced information technology (IT) infrastructure platform to support Tiens Group's aggressive business growth plan in the global marketplace.


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