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Cancer Center Works to Foster Collaboration among Oncology Care Providers

July 1, 2014
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Steven L. D’Amato, Executive Director As the largest private practice in Maine, the Maine Center for Cancer Medicine & Blood Disorders (MCCM) has four locations throughout the state: Biddeford, Brunswick, Sanford, and Scarborough. Steven L. D’Amato has been MCCM’s executive director since 2011. D’Amato is a pharmacist by training, and early in his career, he […]

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HIEs Struggle to Catch On (Part 2)

February 18, 2013

On Friday, we looked at how a total of 32 states missed the Feb. 15 deadline to set up their own, state-run health-insurance exchanges (HIEs). Now that the deadline has past, the government must become intricately involved in state healthcare, essentially running the show as they set up exchanges in these 32 states (the only […]

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IBM Supercomputer Could Revolutionize Healthcare

February 12, 2013

Remember Watson, the supercomputer that trounced Jeopardy superchampion Ken Jennings a few years ago? It was obvious even then that IBM’s long-term goals for Watson went beyond competing on game shows. On Friday, IBM presented the world with three healthcare decision-support apps. Doug Henschen, executive editor at InformationWeek, reports, “The three new applications include one […]

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