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Headlines for Apr 26-May 2
- Posted May 3rd 2009
- by Janice
Good post by Missy Krasner, product marketing manager Google Health, and engineering VP, Alfred Spector of Google that endorses Markle Foundation’s framework on “meaningful use” related to ARRA.
Dr. Val speaks with CEO of AllOne Health, which provides a mobile phone app for practitioners and patients.
Scranton Gillette, a PE firm, acquires Imaging Technology News and Diagnostic & Invasive Cardiology from Reilly Communictions.
Warburg has invested more than $65M in Archimedes Pharma, which is seeking approval for its nasal spray pain reliever for cancer sufferers.
Phreesia, which provides patient check-in via wireless touchscreen devices, includes new content from National Osteoporosis Foundation to screen patients for risk of osteoporosis.
ClearHealth creates a iPhone app that allows doctors to view patient records on their iPhones.
Abstract & link to full article by Deloitte on how Pharma can exploit the increasing amounts of digital outcomes data to improve R&D and clinical trial procedures.
Rodale & Reveille, who brought us “The Biggest Loser” are teaming up for new reality TV program based on Rodale’s “Eat This, Not That”.
Good preso from Digital Pharma Europe on social media in pharma. Part 2 of 4.
J&J achieves top ranking in Harris survey on company reputation. Pharma industry was only sector to “register a significan tpositive change from 2007″. Financial services now at bottom with Tobacco industry.
Interesting post about tools for personal datamining: Daytum and YourFlowingData (YFD). Gives example of entering code words “gnight” and “gmorning” on Twitter before going to bed and upon waking to track hours slept each night. There’s some question about user motivation to enter data, but in health care arena, the combo of ease-of-use and fee incentives might be sufficient.
Statement by PhRMA on IOM’s report with recommendations to curb detailing/gift/etc to physicians & medical institutions. Includes some data on R&D spend v. marketing spend by Pharma.
Steve Woodruff’s top stories in Pharma for 4/29/09. Includes link to IOM’s recommendations on detailing/gifts/etc. to physicians & medical institutions, and updates on Sanofi & Novartis’ pipelines.
DeepDyve (formerly Infovell) unveils a suite of tools for publishers that want to offer DeepDyve search and discovery tools for content via their own site. Tools include enhanced landing pages, customer search API, a “more like this” feature, and content highlight search capability. DeepDyve, a Health Content08 innovator, will provide these tools to publishers whose content is incorporated in the DeepDyve search index for a rev. share of advertising deal, or a fee that depends on volume. Note, DeepDyve’s current index is very strong in health content and other scholarly research information. PLoS is one of the first to implement the API.
Missed this last week. Zynx Health, a Hearst Business company, and EBSCO Publishing announce new partnership to embed EBSCO’s Dynamed EBM content into ZynxOrder for mutual customers. DynaMed produces evidence-based medicine (EBM) reference content that is used in thousands of hospitals. Zynx produces clinical decision support order sets. Note, senior executives from EBSCO Publishing and Hearst/Zynx have presented at our Health Content conferences.
Judge Chin issues a 4 month extension to the May 5 deadline for opting out of Google Book Search Settlement.
Excellent PPT by John Moore at Chilmark on current state of PHRs.
BW highlights concerns about suitability of largest entrenched health IT vendors to revitalize healthcare information systems and add efficiency to current manual processes, given their track record. Reaction to article is divided: some say BW is promoting the viewpoint that doctors dismiss the benefits of technology b/c they aren’t tech savvy *; others say the big vendors truly are not providing systems that add efficiency due to poor design. See our 4/16 blog on Google Health PHRs for a more balanced view: health IT vendors need to develop greater expertise about the data that will flow through their systems and the workflow of the clinicians who will be using the systems. With a dearth of standards for clinical data across health IT systems, interoperability and ease-of-use will continue to be curtailed. Information architects are desperately needed in healthcare.*NB, we don’t believe all doctors are luddites!
Scrubs Magazine, which debuted in beta in Jan. 2009, positions itself as the only site focused on broad interests of nurses: including”career advice and inspiring stories, beauty and fashion tips as well as lots of ideas on making your downtime as relaxing as your work life is demanding”.
IOM proposes that pharma companies disclose payments to doctors, med schools, & professional groups in a centralized db, along with some other recommendations to curtail current practices.
Describes how some employers and healthplans are using incentives to “nudge” employees to practice healthy behaviors. Also mentions how MED300, a billing & EMR company, uses multi-level incentives (incl. chance to win a bigger prize) to get workers to fill out health-risk assessments.
Ken Doctor on continued decrease in print circulation for newspapers and Google’s plans to offer personalized online news. Ken lists reasons for print downturns and points out that the aggregator/distributor (Google) seems to be winning (or has already won) in the online news category. As he says, unless a “new, fairer, stable ecosystem emerge[s]”, “Who will pay journalists to create the news?”
Study by Harvard School of Public Health reports that 90% of cases of diabetes in study of 4,883 men & women aged 65 & older could be attributed to lifestyle factors.
NY Times writes about Johns Hopkins Drug Library, which maintains samples of largest collection of approved drug compounds. Researchers can order full set for about $5,000 and then carry out testing to find new applications. Article describes High Throughput Screening (HTS), which automates processes for testing and allows large-scale screening that wouldn’t have been economically feasible in past.
TicTOCs aggregates tables of contents from group of scholarly publishers, including Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Informa, WK, BMC, Nature & others, in an RSS feed. Developed by U. Liverpool library, Heriot-Watt Univ., CrossRef, Proquest, Emerald, RefWorks, Mimas, Cranfield U., IoP, Sage Pub., inderscience, DOAJ, Open J-Gate and Intute.
Roni Zeiger, MD, Google Health product manager, responds to flak over use of billing codes to exchange & interpret data from patient’s hospital medical records.
John Moore from Chilmark Research provides a sanguine review of last week’s Health 2.0 conference in Boston. He’d appreciate less hype, more data.
J&J’s McNeil Pediatrics launches new Facebook Page that provides online resources for adults with ADHD. Site aggregates info from group of ADHD experts and community leaders. This site follows other ADHD Facebook Pages from J&J, which is leading other pharma companies in experimenting with social media and web publishing.
Computer Sciences Corp (CSC) releases a report, “Core Measures: All About the Data”, which recommends that hospitals change priorities to focus on automating documentation of physicians’ notes early in the process to create “core measures” for payers.
New site from HHS that covers federal health IT programs and provides links to state-level initiatives and additional info.
Monica Healthcare, a developer of miniature wireless technology for monitoring pregnant women, has raised 1.2 M pounds in VC funding, led by PUK Ventures. Monica is based in UK and is a spinout of U. Nottingham. Will be marketed in UK, Europe, Gulf States & Australia.
NY-based Applied Informatics launches TrialX, a patient recruitment tool that facilitates recruitment for clinical trials via social networking sites. TrialX also allows subjects to upload data from PHR apps from Google Health and MSFT HealthVault for pre-screening. Recruitment for research studies is fast becoming the leading revenue model for social networking sites.
J&J’s Simponi, a monoclonal antibody that is injected once a month, is approved by FDA for 3 rheumatic indications. Analysts have est.sales of $3B in next 3 years and this biologic is thought to be a key reason that Merck is acq. Schering Plough for $44.5 M.
Good description of Mayo’s adaptation of MSFT’s HealthVault for their PHR application that is open to anyone.
Healthcare IT News provides a concise summary of the key differences in viewpoints represented at last week’s Health 2.0 conference in Boston. Further comment from HCA: both expert and user-generated content can be useful. But, it’s important to have transparency in health content, so that user understands who produced the content and their motivation/bias.
Phase Forward, a leading provider of clinical trial management s/w acq. Waban Software,which provides platform solutions to automate clinical data analyis & reporting, for $14M in cash.
Challenge to Vermont’s law that bars healthcare datamining companies from using prescriber-identifiable data rejected by US District Judge Murtha. VT’s law was challenged by IMS Health, Wolters kluwer, and Verispan/ SDI. PhRMA has a separate challenge which was included in the ruling.
NY Times reports on spread of swine flu & public health emergency. Tracking usage of social media & Google Flu during this emergency will be interesting.
John Battelle posts a couple of graphs showing Twitter’s “hockey stick” growth in March 2009. I think that’s the month I started tweeting. @janicemccallum
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