Cloud-based research technology launched by Dell last year for the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) is gearing up for what's billed as the world’s first precision medicine clinical trial for pediatric cancer.
Federal officials will soon consider a plan to set aside broadband spectrum for wireless healthcare monitoring devices, opening the door to more and better uses both inside and outside the hospital setting.
States must provide details to the federal government by Nov. 16 – just 10 days after the presidential election – on how they will run online insurance marketplaces, according to guidance released May 16.
Those that don’t meet the deadline – or that can’t operate their own marketplaces, called exchanges – will have it done for them by the federal government, starting in January 2014.
InterSystems has launched the next generation of its InterSystems HealthShare, a strategic informatics platform for interoperability and active analytics. Designed originally for public HIEs, officials say the technology has been extended and rearchitected for use by integrated delivery networks (IDNs).
The American Medical Association (AMA) has asked the federal government to delay the implementation deadline for ICD-10 from Oct. 1, 2013, until Oct. 1, 2015, "at a minimum."
| OTTO® MAX | OTTO® BASIC | |
| Number of backup sets | Unlimited | 1 |
| BACKUP SCHEDULE | ||
| Continuous data protection | Y | Y |
| Daily | Y | Y |
| Weekly | Y | Y |
| Monthly | Y | N |
| Yearly | Y | N |
| Multiple schedules | Y | N |
| ENCRYPTION | ||
| 128-bit/256-bit | Y | Y |
| Configuration by end-user | Y | N |
| TwoFish | Y | N |
| Triple DES | Y | N |
| AES | Y | Y |
| ADD-ON MODULES | ||
| Network attached storage | Y | N |
| MS exchange | Y | N |
| Brick level mail backup for MS exchange | Y | N |
| MS SQL | Y | N |
| Lotus domino | Y | N |
| Oracle | Y | N |
| MySQL | Y | N |
| In-file delta (simple) | Y | Y |
| In-file delta (advanced) | Y | N |
| Volume shadow copy | Y | Y |
| Windows system backup and restore | Y | N |
| OPERATING SYSTEMS | ||
| Windows (all server/workstation editions) 2000/XP/2003/Vista | Y | Y |
| Linus-Kernel 2.4 or above | Y | N |
| Mac OSX-v.103 or above | Y | Y |
| Unix - Solaris, AIX ,HP-UX, FreeBSD | Y | N |
| RETENTION POLICY | ||
| Simple — by days/job | Y | days only |
| Advanced — by weeks, months, quarter and years | Y | N |
| OTHERS | ||
| Run custom OS commands before/after a backup job | Y | N |
| Filter files by extensions | Y | Y |
| Filter files/folders by any user-defined patterns | Y | N |
| Logout reminder | Y | Y |
| Offline backup reminder | Y | Y |
| Local copy | Y | N |
| Web restoration | Y | Y |
| Progress bar during backup | Y | Y |