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Headlines for Nov 24
- Posted November 24th 2008
- by Janice
WSJ Health Blog on shortcomings in health care journalism.
Reports on SciVee, a video technology platform “much like YouTube’s. SciVee enables scientists across a host of disciplines to create content in any field of science, technology, or medicine. Bourne says K-12 teachers and other educational users also are using SciVee to post videos like this for younger students to access. About 1,000 users have posted videos on the site so far.” Not open-access, rather they have a user-paid revenue model.
NY Times reports on ties between some health journalists and drug companies.
“Quality/EqualityQuality/Equality / Quality/Equality newsroom / News digest News releases Stories and articles News digest Perspectives and commentaries Grantee profiles Video and audio Media inquries Joint Commission Proposes Guiding Principles for Hospital ImprovementPrint E-mail Bookmark RSS Text size: A A A Nov 21, 2008 The Joint Commission has released a new report outlining guiding principles and actions for hospitals and providers in five core areas to better meet the needs of an aging patient population, improve patient safety and care quality, enhance financial performance, and address workforce shortages…”
Richard Saul Wurman and others revive TEDMED to be held in San Diego at The Hotel Del Coronado from Oct. 27-30, 2009. “The fifth annual TEDMED event is intended to serve as the same sort of forum for mesmerizing, rapid-fire presentations about medicine, health care and life sciences that Wurman created with the original TED event in 1984.”
“the Kaiser Family Foundation is starting a news service to produce in-depth coverage of the policy and politics of health care, both for an independent Web site and in collaborations with mainstream news organizations.” See also, Paidcontent.org for more analysis.
WKHealth’s Lippincott Williams & Wilkins’ “NursingCenter.com now provides over 900 peer-reviewed continuing education activities and free access to 11,000 articles from more than 50 leading nursing journals.” Interface updated, too with new interactive multimedia tools for CME and clinical research.
CCHIT site that follows developments in EHR adoption.
Informa Medical Publishing announces E-MedINFORM, a plaform for pharma companies to sponsor educational learning modules for physicians from Informa Medical Publishing’s clinical books, journals or customized content.
“Online health insurance portal GoHealthInsurance.com recently partnered with HealthDay.com ( http://www.healthday.com) an online health news syndicator based in Norwalk, Connecticut, to provide health insurance shoppers with the latest in health and health insurance news.”
Article makes point that big IT companies like Intel, Apple are eyeing healthcare sector for growth. Obviously, GE, Siemens and others already have major healthcare divisions, but continue to see growth in this sector.
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