Pharmacy

IBM has recently announced that the faculty from Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women's Hospital would be using IBM business analytics technology for a new research that would examine the effectiveness of prescription drugs and identify potential safety issues. Harvard Medical research "‘teams are conducting advanced pharmaco epidemiology studies that look at the effects of drugs in large numbers of people based on insurance claims data. Using an IBM Netezza data warehouse appliance, the research teams will expand their study to analyze data from millions of de-identified patient records with the aim to develop new data- intensive drug safety research methods. "The ability to glean insight and act on the analysis of massive amounts of claims data will help Harvard Medical School extend its reputation as one of the largest and most respected medical research organizations in the world," said Arvind Krishna, General Manager, IBM Information Management.