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Headlines for Jan 19-31

  • Posted January 30th 2009
  • by Janice
  • » HealthCentral Buys Acquires Tech-Centric Health Portal Wellsphere | paidContent.org

    San Mateo-based Wellsphere is acq. by HealthCentral. PaidContent characterizes it as a technology play, along with some bump-up in scale. Wellsphere includes health-specific search engine, a mobile application, and an enterprise app. for powering a wellness portal for Stanford Univ.

  • » Medical checklists from Nudge author’s perspective

    Author of Nudge, the book that describes how “choice architecture” can be used to encourage healthful or otherwise beneficial behavior, gives his opinion on usefulness of medical checklists based on the recent study of noncardiac surgery checklists.

  • » Healthcare Technology News: High Margin Revenue Cycle Strategies

    Interview with Stephen Forney, author of “10 Critical Growth Strategies Healthcare Executives Must Know”.

  • » Consumer Watchdog Calls on Google to Cease Lobbying Effort to Allow Sale of Patient Medical Records; Urges Congress to Adopt Privacy Protections in Economic Stimulus Bill

    Consumer advocacy group, Consumer Watchdog, to change their policy and lobbying efforts to sell aggregated personal healthcare record info to advertisers.

  • » The IN VIVO Blog: While You Were Contemplating Pfizer/Wyeth [UPDATED]

    InVivo on the Pfizer acquisition of Wyeth.

  • » Medidata Solutions files for IPO

    Medidata, a provider of hosted clinical development solutions, files for IPO.

  • » Understanding Evidence-based Healthcare

    David Rothman’s post points to a free online course “Understanding Evidence-based Healthcare: A Foundation for Action” offered by Consumers United for Evidence-based Healthcare (CUE)–a coalition of consumer health and consumer advocacy groups. A video describing CUE is included in post, too.

  • » How Do Hospitals Get Paid? A Primer - Economix Blog - NYTimes.com

    Princeton’s Uwe Reinhardt offers a primer on hospital reimbursement.

  • » New Rules on Doctors and Medical Firms Amid Ethics Concerns - NYTimes.com

    Legislation has been introduced (Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to require pharma companies and medical device manufacturers to disclose all payments to doctors.

  • » Premier healthcare alliance partners with Concerro (formerly BidShift) to offer online shift management systems

    Hospital group purchasing organization, Premier, to resell shift-scheduling application of Concerro.

  • » Where’s the Value in Healthcare? - www.healthleadersmedia.com

    John Morrow, a leader in creating and promoting systems for rating hospitals, writes on the importance of viewing value of health care from the patient’s perspective.

  • » Elsevier to launch over 600 health science e-Book titles on ScienceDirect

    Elsevier adds books from W.B. Saunders, Mosby, Churchill Livingstone and Hanley & Belfus imprints to ScienceDirect.

  • » Salem Press Becomes Part of EBSCO Publishing

    EBSCO publishing acq. Salem Press. Companies had partnered for distribution in past and Salem created custom content for EBSCO. Salem publishes consumer health publications, as well as literature and history books. Berkery Noyes acted as advisor to Salem.

  • » Pfizer in talks to buy Wyeth in blockbuster deal: WSJ - MarketWatch

    According to WSJ, talks have been underway for months and no deal is imminent, but a reported $60B deal would create a pharma giant.

  • » Tough Quarter Hammers Eclipsys’ Stock

    Eclipsys which uses the tagline “the outcomes company” gets downgraded after missing earnings forecasts for Q4 2008 results. Analysts had expected eps of $0.35; Eclipsys announced eps of 7-11 cents for the quarter.

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