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Headlines for Jan 12-18
- Posted January 18th 2009
- by Janice
Bob Wachter on how insurers are getting into the act and promoting medical tourism for their insured patients.
Sage Publications signs with e-Healthcare Solutions for online advtsg of their medical journals.
Post isn’t health-focused, but anything Google does is relevant to publishing. Mentions Knol, which was seeded with paid medical contributors, and the fact that it hasn’t caught on.
Article highlights how increased focus on reporting errors leads to an initial jump in recorded errors (since many errors simply weren’t recorded previously). But, in reality, error rate may have declined.
Related to story earlier this week about settlement between UnitedHealth and NY atty general to fund development of independently produced database for calculating out-of-network reimbursement rates. UnitedHealth’s Ingenix group will pay $50M to help new db; Aetna will pay $20M to help fund the db.
Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics wins $487 M contract to build facility to mfr cell-based vaccine.
David Williams on the Ingenix/UnitedHealth database settlement. Good points about wide variations in costs among providers.
Authors of Nudge describe Changemakers foundation & RWJF’s contest to find good ideas that encourage better health outcomes. Winners receive $5,000.
Chilmark reports on merger of two vendors in RHIO/HIE market that combined serve approx. 10% of US hospitals.
Links to presentations given at user meeting held in Scottsdale, Dec 3-5, 2008. Note, Patty Riskind, CEO of Patient Impact, one of our Innovator Showcase presentors, is included among the speakers.
More on the new Family Health History tool from Surgeon General.
My Family Health Portrait, an online health history info tool introduced in 2004, has been updated with new data stadards to facilitate info exchange with EMR and PHRs.
5-8% of Pfizer’s 10,000 research employees to be laid off by end of year.
UnitedHealth to pay $50M to finance development of new database of medical care costs by region. NY state atty general, Cuomo, had investigated the reimbursement rates in current Ingenix db (Ingenix is div. of UnitedHealth) and found that they underestimated prevailing costs by region. New db to be developed by a neutral university. According to Karen Ignani, CEO of trade group America’s Health Insurance Plans, new db will “enable customers, for the first time, to be able to know what doctors are charging for their services before they have an office visit”.
Neil Versel provides a list of the members of the leadership board for the National eHealth Collaborate, the successor to AHIC 2.0. Versel points out limited representation of nurses, and lack of medical librarians on the board.
J&J partners with Burnham Institute for Medical Research to have access to their high-throughput drug screening capability to help develop new inflamatory disease drugs.
Abry buys minority stake in Gateway EDI, a healthcare billing service compnay.
AMO, the leader in Lasik surgical devices, to be acquired by Abbott for $2.8B.
Kolltan, a spinoff from Yale Medical School, closes Series A fo over $35 M and names CEO. Kolltan is developing cancer treatments.
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