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Headlines for Mar 2-7
- Posted March 8th 2009
- by Janice
Great post and related comments from E-patient Dave about the importance of including patient input/comments into medical web 2.0 applications like Medpedia. My further comment: the patient-created content also needs to be “peer-reviewed”, organized and aggregated in a way that leads to useful analysis by professionals and patients/consumers.
Health Integrated, a health & wellness coaching company that focuses on psychological health & support as well as physical health, through coaching, education, and support, expands with 3rd location in Lynnwood, Wash. Tampa-based Health Integrated paratners with health plans to deliver its services.
Oops, I forgot to annotate this story last week. Thomson Reuters 2008 earnings. Healthcare group within professional division reports 4% increase in revenue (CC) and 0% increase in operating margin. TR is selling Physicians Desk Reference (PDR) product, which has declining revenue.
Article outlines new voluntary guidelines issued by the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed), whose 400 members include range of medical device vendors, in reaction to increased criticism from congressional and consumer groups.
MedImpact customers will soon (summer 09) be able to store prescription info on their HealthVault PHRs. “Headquartered in San Diego, MedImpact Healthcare Systems, Inc., is the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit management (PBM) company that does not sell drugs. MedImpact clients include Fortune 500 corporations and employers, unions, managed care organizations, insurance carriers, third-party administrators, as well as local, state and federal employee programs.”
New site from HHS to focus on health reform activities. Live video from today’s health care summit are available.
GenomeQuest, an HC08 Innovator, releases new functionality that allows easy annotation and visualization tools to its sequence data management solution.
John Halamka (CIO BIDMC) comments on common opinion that Health IT lags IT implementation in financial services. He criticizes fin’l services for not including sufficient intelligence in their automation systems. I think criticism is too harsh because the causes of the failures in banking go far beyond lack of controls in IT systems, but agree that planned implementations of health IT should learn from mistakes in IT systems used in finance.
The new MediSlate “mobile clinical assistant” was created specifically for healthcare professionals in a clinical environment with drop-resitant and spill-proof features that allow cleaning & disinfection. Also has touch screen that can be used with gloves.
Review of online video & voice/text physician services from American Well, TelaDoc and SwiftMD. For fees much lower than onsite appts, patients can “see” a doctor for online consultations and get prescriptions. American Well is linked to MSFT’s HealthVault. These services work to serve uninsured patients, but are increasingly being recommended to insured patients as well–to save costs and for convenience.
Google Health adds feature that allows users to share data with doctors, family or trusted friend. Also, added ability to print out wallet-sized medical profile.
Wellpoint, the 2nd largest health insurance company in the US, has put its PBM unit up for sale. The unit includes NextRx, a 3rd party administrator that processes Rx claims and helps set prices for BCBS and other employee health plans. According to FT, PBM unit could be worth somewhere between <$1B and $5B. LIkely bidders include CVS Caremark, ExpressScripts, and Medco.
Getwell network, an in-hospital network that “delivers personalized information, education and communications tools at the bedside” via the television, raises 3rd round from previous investors (Valhalla Partners, Grosvenor Funds, Point Judith Capital, Village Ventures) and adds Johnson & Johnson Develpment Corp to the list of investors.
Interview by Dr. Robert Wachter of Dr. Dean Schillinger about health literacy issues in hospital settings. Schillinger emphasizes the need to communicate without medical jargon to patients. Also mentions need to standardize Rx info on pill bottles.
Articles points to ties between med school faculty and pharma companies at Harvard Med.
PhotoMedex (PHMD) a leading vendor of laser devices for dermatological applications acquiring Photo Therapeutics. Photo Therapeutics provides specialty non-laser light devices to dermatology specialists, as well as some new consumer products for acne and skin rejuvenation markets. Perseus backed the transaction.
Tara Parker-Pope of NY Times writes about how concept of comparative effectiveness needs to trickle down to patients to change the current environment where doctors and patients too often seem to chose drugs & therapies based on theory that “if it costs more, it must be better”. Also makes the point that focus on wellness, not just treatment, is needed.
Related to previous post, John Halamka writes on need to develop a standardized quality data set (QDS)to support a “automated, patient-centric, and longitudinal” quality data set framework. Warning: post is acronym-heavy.
John Halamka’s excellent post on range of quality measurement tools needed to improve our healthcare system–both clinical and administrative.
Mass General Hospital plans to begin analyzing genetic fingerprints of all tumors in order to customize treatment.
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March 10th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
Hi Janice - I just noticed your pingback to my Medpedia post on e-patients.net. Thanks for the kind words.
I completely agree with your note that we need to be able to review patient-generated content. I don’t know if you’ve had a chance to look at the landmark 2007 document created by the e-patient scholars working group (before I joined them) - it’s at the top of e-patients.net.
Reading it (Jan. 2008) was a mind-blower for me, even leading me to rename my “blogger persona” to include “e-patient.” It’s a great body of work, documenting the sometimes amazing ways patients are generating real value in the healthcare ecosystem these days.
The best part for me is chapter 2, “Seven Preliminary Conclusions.” #7 is that the best way to improve medicine is to make it more collaborative. Or, as some people are now calling it, “participatory medicine.”