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Headlines for Jan 19-31
- Posted January 30th 2009
- by Janice
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.
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.
Interview with Stephen Forney, author of “10 Critical Growth Strategies Healthcare Executives Must Know”.
Consumer advocacy group, Consumer Watchdog, to change their policy and lobbying efforts to sell aggregated personal healthcare record info to advertisers.
InVivo on the Pfizer acquisition of Wyeth.
Medidata, a provider of hosted clinical development solutions, files for IPO.
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.
Princeton’s Uwe Reinhardt offers a primer on hospital reimbursement.
Legislation has been introduced (Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to require pharma companies and medical device manufacturers to disclose all payments to doctors.
Hospital group purchasing organization, Premier, to resell shift-scheduling application of Concerro.
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 adds books from W.B. Saunders, Mosby, Churchill Livingstone and Hanley & Belfus imprints to ScienceDirect.
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.
According to WSJ, talks have been underway for months and no deal is imminent, but a reported $60B deal would create a pharma giant.
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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