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Headlines for Nov 4-6
- Posted November 7th 2008
- by Janice
Big health insurance companies making acquisitions to prepare to shift some attention toward administering Medicaid plans for states. “Many insurers have been betting that Democrats will focus on expanding access to Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, by jumping deeper into the business of running those plans for states. Aetna Inc. expanded in that sector last year when it bought Schaller Anderson, a Medicaid plan operator in nine states, for $535 million. UnitedHealth Group Inc., already a big player in Medicaid, increased its foothold by acquiring Unison Health Plans, in June.”
The entire genome of woman who died from AML is sequenced, leading to new insight into genes that contribute to the disease.
More about Ian Smith, the newly appointed CEO of Reed Elsevier to replace Crispin Davis in March 2009.
Bayer and Onyx Pharmaceuticals sponsor educational resource program on liver cancer, in conjunction with American Liver Foundation and Vital Options Intl. “The centerpiece of the program is the Living with Liver Cancer Web site (http://www.LivingwithLiverCancer.com), which serves as a resource for people seeking more information about liver cancer and liver disease. To expand access and availability of the program to a wider audience, information on the Web site will be translated into several different languages, including Chinese and Spanish. More than 600,000 cases of liver cancer are diagnosed worldwide each year, including 15,000 cases in the United States.(1,2)”
Clayton Christensen’s advertorial for his upcoming book with (the late) Jerome Grossman and Jason Hwang, The Innovator’s Prescription. I like that he invokes Say’s Law that supply creates its own demand and applies that to our healthcare system. Key point is that incumbent institutions are trying to keep out innovators.
More on rationale behind Rodale layoffs and re-org. “[A]dvertisers have been asking the company to offer them standardized sales packages across print, digital and events businesses, rather than building complicated custom programs for each campaign they run.” Online ad revenues projected to increase 14% in 2008; print 1%.
Advanstar expands its eye-care titles with launch of Optometry Times next March.
Rodale, which publishes Men’s Health, Women’s Health, Runner’s World and other health/lifestyle pubs, lays of 10%. Outsourcing IT and dismantling marketing solutions group.
Ian Smith, former head of homebuilder Taylor Woodrow PLC, to succeed Davis as CEO of Reed Elsevier in March 2009. Note, Smith also “worked as CEO of General Healthcare Group, Britain’s largest provider of acute private care, and was in change of Europe, the Middle East and Africa for Exel Group, a freight management company.”
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