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Safe Production of High-Titer Retrovirus

Stratagene We describe a set of vectors that can be used with any MMLV-basedretroviral vector to produce viral supernatants that have titers that areconsistently greater than or equal to 10 cfu/ml...

Funds will support public safety communications interoperabilty

The funds will be used to implement a regional public safety mobile radio plan for the 16-county group, and purchase equipment that will ena...

Is Google's cafeteria a competitive weapon?

If you're a Google fan, here's yet another reason to love this provider of really useful, reliable, and not to mention free computer tools - they feed their employees well! That fact came to light a few weeks ago when the Internet was full of reports that Google is seeking to hire two gourmet chefs to prepare meals (free to employees) for its brainy staff. It turns out that the...

High interest forces delay in food safety symposium

A surge in interest in a conference on protecting the U.S. food supply from terrorism and natural disasters has led its organizers to postpone the event until spring from its original November dates. The was originally slated for Nov. 1-3 in downtown Milwaukee, with as many as 1,000 people expected from the Gr...

Reforming FDA: Focus on safety, let market judge efficacy

The primacy of efficacy over safety seems to be so deeply integral to the system that it mig...

Finding Safe Harbor in a sea of electronic discovery

of this series on e-discovery, we discussed the amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which require parties to address and resolve issues regarding the discovery of electronically stored information ("ESI"). Without a plan of attack or a system of satisfying your obligation to preserv...

Safe Internet requires total network security, prof. says

Barford, an assistant professor in the , said the acceleration of malicious activity that began in 2001 shows no signs of abat...

UW-Madison gets $1.6 million to develop medical privacy safeguards

The three-year grant is for research on data mining strategies that could still preserve privacy. The Division of Public Health in Wisconsin...

As HIPAA deadline passes even the unprepared are safe for now

Unlike the This makes sense to many in the field; the HIPAA rule involves too many software protocols throughout the healthcare...

Human factors and IT: Designing for patient safety

MADISON In the medical profession, one of the greatest obstacles in taking care of a patient is the overflow of information that naturally accompanies treatment. Patient histories and care instructions are often long and full of irrelevant information, and if multiple hospitals are involved, more levels of complication develop. To many, a technological system that could organize all this informa...

UW Medical Foundation CEO shares his vision on the state of health care and patient safety

MADISON The human aspect of leveraging and delivering information technology for increased patient safety in health care is often overshadowed by the appeal of cutting-edge technologies, gizmos and gadgets. , president and chief operat...

UW symposium to explore impact of IT on improving quality, safety and cost of healthcare

MADISON Advances in the development of healthcare information systems are helping to define 21st century electronic healthcare. Although the technology exists, organizations often struggle with the transition from error prone paper-based systems to a more efficient and safer digital healthcare network. A flagship one-day symposium, Leveraging Information Technology to Improve Patient S...

Thompson receives leadership award for technology solutions for patient safety

CHICAGO - The , with its annual HIMSS Advocacy Award for his leadership to include healthcare information manag...