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Headlines for Mar 16-23
- Posted March 23rd 2009
- by Janice
Notes from Conference Board’s event on Employee Health in San Diego, Mar 09. See additional related posts via this post. Addressess incentives for healthy behavior.
Dr. David Blumental named national coordinator for Health IT. Blumenthal, a former Harvard Med School professor, was senior advisor to Obama during campaign, and has advised Ted Kennedy. Most recently, Blumenthal was director of Institute for Health Policy at Mass General/Partners HealthCare.
Press release includes link to bios of council members. “Recovery Act Allocates $1.1 Billion for Comparative Effectiveness Research The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today announced the members of the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research. Authorized by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the new council will help coordinate research and guide investments in comparative effectiveness research funded by the Recovery Act.”
Link to Wolters Kluwer’s 2008 annual report site.
A biting indictment of current state EMRs for failing to consider workflow needs of clinicians by MedInformaticsMD on Health Care Renewal blog. Post includes a reading list of articles that offer reviews of various healthIT systems–mostly reviews that point out inadequacies of EMR systems to-date.
John Halamka, David Bates, and Blackford Middleton (from BIDMC & Partners HealthCare) respond to Groopman and Hartzband’s WSJ article on lack of effectiveness of implementing electronic medical records.
Article describes benefits of “information therapy”, which is defined as some combination of patient education and wellness programs, at Kaiser and other closed-system medical groups. Key point is that electronic health records and personal health records are far more useful (and will likely be adopted at faster rates) if information can be integrated and customized for each constituent group. More in this week’s lead article.
InstaMed, based in Philadelphia & Newport Beach, CA, announces further financing from Osage and Ashby. InstaMed is a leading provider of healthcare billing services and payment processing.
Generation Health, based in NJ, plans to expand Boston area presence. Generation is developing a PBM-like service for genetic testing.
3i invests 65M Euros in Labco, one of the largest medical diagnostic groups in Europe.
Reference to recent study that analyzes impact of incentives in ARRA (Stimulus Bill) on e-prescribing. Estimates usage will double in 5 years and will reduce adverse drug events.
Sekisui to pay “several billion yen” for Am. Diagnostica, which makes diagnostic drugs for hemophilia. Sekisui makes testing equip. for diagnosing thrombosis and measuring cholesterol.
Glaxo seeks to diversify into vaccines and consumer businesses in order to hedge against poor outlook for blockbuster drug development.
KLAS report describes why eClinicalWorks’ EMR software has been gaining traction faster than competitors. Price and appealing interface are key factors.
The Stimulus Bill (ARRA) raises issue of whether PHR providers (GoogleHealth and Microsoft HealthVault, in particular) need to sign business associate agreements with providers before they exchange data (to be consistent with HIPAA requirements which haven’t been applied specifically to PHR vendors before). Story points out that Mayo and Cleveland Clinic have yet to transfer any data to HealthVault and GoogleHealth respectively, even though they announced that they were working together over a year ago.
Missed this last month. Mike Cunnion, fmly of Health Talk, joins Medizine as President (Feb. 2009). Medizine is owned by VSS.
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