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Headlines for May 3- May 8
- Posted May 8th 2009
- by Janice
Thought-provoking article by CEO of Daylife, Upendra Shardanand. Addresses the need for content publishers/journalists to start thinking like data publishers so that pieces of the story can be reorganized in multiple ways with additional media included to enrichen the story, if desired. With XML-based CMS tools increasingly in use, we should be seeing more creative expositions of content. What’s holding back progress, I believe, is the economics of publishing. How will pieces of stories be monetized? With shopping sites, the content is advertising; with journalism, the content is the product. Does content only have value if it drives the purchase of something?
more on GE’s “Healthymagination” campaign to shift resources from big systems for hospitals to more lower-cost products, and invest $3B in developing at least 100 product and services innovations by 2015.
WebMD to launch Medscape iPhone app in May/June. Article also discusses the success of ReachMD’s recently launched CME app on the iPhone. More evidence of the popularity of the iPhone platform with doctors.
Good discussion of open access from e-patients’ perspective. 25 comments & counting, including a couple from me.
David Kibbe, MD, entry on CCR standard in Medpedia.
Some dialogue about CCR codes, SNOMED, Google Health, and the fact that there is a lot of work to do before we have a coding ontology that serves as basis for exchanging data between medical records.
Shrinking library budgets and weakened pound are affecting the ability of academic & non-profit libraries in the UK to subscribe to scholarly journals & texts.
As part of budget announcement today, Obama says gov’t will cut payments to Medicare Advantage by 4-4.5% in 2010 to save $22 B. Other healthcare announcements include increases to cancer research, autism research, funding for SCHIP, and other incentives.
GE unveils “Healthymagination” initiative to produce “low cost products” for organizations with limited access to health IT. Early word is that the news release & Webcase was splashy but with very little substance.
Hacker reportedly steals 8.3 million patient prescsription records and demands $10M in ransom. Puts attention on security of digital healthcare records.
Reponse from Elsevier about Merck-sponsored “fake journal”.
ThomsonReuters reports Q109 earnings. Tax&Acct’g group and Healthcare&Science were bright spots in rev. growth; most other areas flat or declining. Total -3% rev. change over Q108; +3% in constant currency. Media group worst performer. PDR listed in discontinued ops. Not included in reported numbers.
More on Kindle DX and how newspapers will subsidize for customers in areas that do not get home delivery currently. That will miss the group with greatest interest.
A good round-up of tools for using Twitter. I’m still a beginner, but with news of Twitter Search expanding (something that delicious should have done years ago), I can see real value in Twitter. Follow me @janicemccallum
Print ad rev. down 18.4%. Online ad revenues down 2.6%. In line with other magazines; health sector no help in this case. E-Commerce revs up, book sales up for “Flat Belly Diet” and “Eat This, Not That” for which Rodale is planning a reality TV show.
Santosh Jayaram, Twitter’s new VP Ops, says that Twitter Search will soon begin crawling the links that people tweet and index them for Twitter Search.
Article describes how AmeriHealth implemented NaviNet, an info messaging service that alerts clinicians to unment healthcare services for a patient and the patient’s eligibility for coverage of the services. NaviMedix, Cambridge, MA, develops NaviNet.
Very good analysis of Microsoft’s latest deal in healthcare to license HealthVault to Telus, the large telecom company in Canada. Telus will brand the service, Telus Health Space, and will sell the services to provinces and territories who provide their own eHealth services.
New Kindle DX announced for pre-order at $489; available in Summer. Looks very cool, but price is high. Will newspapers or other publishers subsidize the cost to keep subscribers?
Includes links to 2 reports on health care quality. Among findings: patient safety measures have worsened by nearly 1% each year for past 6 years.
Pfizer agrees to cover publication costs for articles by its researchers on BioMed Central (now part of Springer). Is this the unintended consequence of “author pays” model: Big Pharma-backed research will be fully-supported b/c Pharma can cover the costs. But what about research that isn’t related to something that Pharma wants to promote? As with the Els/Merck “journal”, transparency is key.
Cost-cutting is helping balance weak new subscription sales to keep on track for margin outlook for 2009 of about 20%.
Some explanation of the Elsevier-produced “complimentary” journal that consisted of reprints about Fosomax & Vioxx that was paid for by Merck. Journal issues in question were produced between 2003-2005.
MedPage Today wins gold award for “Best Overall Web Publication” from American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors. Congrats to CEO Bob Stern and his team.
Halamka’s summary of Micky Tripathi’s (Mass eHealth Collaborative) presentation on “Meaningful Use”. Lots of good material in the preso, but it all seems so hospital/current vendor-focused to me.
Amazon will hold big press conference on Wed 5/6 to announce larger-screen Kindle appropriate for textbooks and newspapers.
I’ve been lax in reporting on the Merck-sponsored journal that Elsevier produced without full disclosure. Here’s a perspective.
John Mack points to 2 studies that paint an unsatisfactory picture of the quality & usefulness of much of the current healthcare journalists. Basic claim is that press releases about recent research serve as promotional pieces and don’t put research in context and that too many healthcare journalists just recap those press releases in their stories without additional reporting. John suggest bloggers help add context.
Good article that describes lessons from UK’s NICE (National Institute of Clinical Excellence) that could be put to use by US for the comparative effectives research efforts.
KevinMD posts about why doctors should use SEO to promote their practices. Includes references to some resources and articles for primers on SEO.
Washington state’s governor has signed bills that will allow health regulators to conduct surprise inspections of hospitals beginning in August, which changes the current policy of 4-months of advance notice; second bill tightens standards for screening for MRSA.
23andMe, a personalized genomics company, raises $11 million of a $24.26 million second round.
Not health related–just to the health of newspaper companies…. Great, easy-to-follow post on how to use Calibre to download and organize newspaper content on a Kindle.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation provides $100K grants to study uncoventional approaches to healthcare in developing countries.
Governor John Baldacci of Maine unveils “Maine HealthCost”, which allows users to enter their insurance info and find estimated out-of-pocket costs by providers across the state.
Traxtal’s PercuNav systems helps physicians track the tip of a needle when performing minally invasive procedures, avoiding the need to constantly image the patient.
Describes Caterpillar’s testing of a program with Wal-Mart where Wal-Mart essentially serves as the PBM for CAT.
Dr. David Goldmann named EIC of Elsevier’s First Consult product line. “First Consult is an authoritative evidence-based and regularly updated clinical information resource for healthcare professionals. Designed for use at the point of care, it provides instant, user-friendly access to the latest information on evaluation, diagnosis, clinical management, prognosis and prevention.”
Eric Schonfeld presents good trend data on online ads from Google, Yahoo, MSN, and AOL. Q109 first qtr that showed decline since dotcom bust. Google only company that saw modest growth.
John Mack posts on how issues faced by publishers of social media sites for pharma mirror those of publishers of all kinds of pharma content. Yes, the latest media publishing tools make it easy to enable the creation of user-generated content. But what guidelines should pharma companies & their media agencies follow? For starters, they should understand that they are serving as publishers and should learn from experience of publishing companies in pharma industry. As John says, “plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose”, although he said it in English!
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