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Headline Commentary May 31-June 7
- Posted June 7th 2009
- by Janice
A rundown of a handful of online physician ratings sites. Also mentions pushback by physicians who can’t respond to reviews. Mentions RateMDs.com, DrScore.com, AngiesList, Heatlhgrades and some state-specific sites.
Good series on how the Google algorithm has evolved and how human reviewers have been added to the formula.
IAB PWC research shows that online ad spend declined in Q1 2009 YoY for the 1st time in years.
The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Assos. and DOAJ/Lund University LIbraries will hole 1st conf. on Open Access in Sweden Sept. 14-16.
E-patient Dave’s slides from presentation at National eHealth Collaborative last week.
Good overview of Data.gov by Info Today.
David E. Williams provides a very nice summary of Michael Porter’s excellent article in NEJM (available for free): A Strategy for Health Care Reform — Toward a Value-Based System.
The participatory medicine/epatient pioneers have formed a society, the Society of Participatory Medicine, and will publish a journal called Jounral of Participatory Medicine. Dr. Alan Green, MD is the first president. Journal will be open access, of course!
Some background on why drug companies aren’t flocking to Twitter.
This story supports theme of the June 4 blog on Health Data Analytics and the bounty of new data streams that will be available from digitized records of all sorts. Cerner’s data warehouse includes 1.2 billion lab results, as well as medication orders and other data.
Good post that expands on theme that EHRs (EMRs) should be designed with patient needs in mind and that simply automated current procedures in hospitals won’t likely lead to an improved experience for patients who want to participate in their health care decisions.
Commonwealth Fund study on Comparative Effectiveness Research from 4 other countries. In my reading pile.
Healthcare a bright spot in employement trends: health care jobs grew >23,000 in May, while overall nonfarm payrolls shrank by 345,000.
Dr. Val discusses the “workflow interruption” aspect of most EHR systems. The “workflow interruption” is my term. She describes more elegantly, but I am putting it in context of good marketing practices in IT and publishing, where product developers spend time shadowing prospective customers and get a deep understanding of their workflow in order to design information tools that increase efficiency and try to improve outcomes, not just add a layer of technology in order to record data.
A new condition of interest to data publishers: Database Hugging Disorder (DBHD). Humor aside, this post addresses trend toward allowing access to the databases that were used in medical and other studies. In line with the Open Access movement in scholarly publishing that campaigns for free access to research articles where the research was funded with public funds, the open database movement seems to be growing very quickly. Oddly enough, even though the databases hold more value than individual articles (especially when data can be combined from multiple databases), the fact that they haven’t been monetized in most cases may lead research organizations to be more willing to make them freely available while still charging for published articles based on the data.
Good post that includes links to top ideas for Pharma in social media, as well as John Mack’s thoughts on the need for Pharma companies to create “corporate” blogs or websites that serve as central resources on diseases, conditions, or other topics that are more broad than a marketing site for a drug. Points to importance of providing links and information from other sources. This is a theme I think is important and publishers should take note. Pharma websites are now prospective buyers of authoritative content for their websites.
J&J said “pipeline productivity is on track” and outlined growth strategies: -greater marekt penetration, new commercial models, exapnded geographic presence.
Elsevier to publish guidelines for sponsored reprints.
Good piece from Michael Porter on key changes required to reform our healthcare system. Porter emphasizes the need to align incentives for insurers, providers, employers, and patients with health of the patients/consumers as the objective. I’ve only skimmed the article, but it looks spot on.
Stunning numbers from new study that says 62% of all bankruptices filed in 2007 were in part due to medical expenses–and 78% of those individuals had health insurance.
Only PE companies left in bidding. Interesting twist: Springer’s current owners, Candover & Cinven are looking to raise a specific amount (500M Euros) and are asking interested parties to bid on share they are willing to accept for that amount. Springer has large number of scholarly journals & books, and has done well selling ebook versions in the past couple of years, but has lagged behind in creating decision tool applications based on their content. Heavily focused on academic market.
Anthem Blue Cross, the BC provider in California, announces wide availability of its cost comparison data to members in CA. The transparency tool provides access to costs associatied with all aspects of a medical procedure, from lat tests to recovery room charges & physician costs for specific facilites. Eventually, BC/BS plans to make similar info available countrywide. A big move in the right direction to support consumer driven health plans with high deductibles & copays.
Great post on the potential value of the huge amount of data that are being collected as more info on individual patients is recorded in digital form. Effects of drug interactions across a broad population is key example given here.
Modern Healthcare reports that GetWellNetwork, which provides bedside computer apps for “patient engagement” is “promoting the use of its own and similar products by creating and helping fund a not-for-profit institute devoted to researching patient-engagement effectiveness”. GetWellNetwork calls their applications “interactive patient care”. My comment: it gets confusing when there are so many fragmented terms for improving patient care & safety, some that involve patient participation, some that don’t. Rationalizing the health IT market, esp for vendors to hospitals, and incorporating patient education providers would add efficiency and perhaps even make sense to the patients. Relationship of GetWell and the insitutute also raises doubts on transparency. Parallels relationship between Healthwise & Center for Ix Therapy, although at least both are non-profits in this case.
Medidata, which provides s/w for managing clinical trials and for managing clinical research data (Rave), sets terms for IPO. S1 was filed in January 09. Insight Ventures key investor. Market cap at expected $11-13 range to be up to $290. See: http://www.mdsol.com/products/rave_overview.htm
Medsphere, a San Diego company, has raised $1.0M of a $15M funding round. Medsphere is commercializing an open source version of the EHR system developed for Veterans Affairs. Backers include Thomas Weisel, Azure Capital Partners, & Epic Ventures.
Good overview of Google Wave by folks at ReadWriteWeb.
Posts by pharma sales reps on site: CafePharma allowed in lawsuit that claims Schering hid study results on Vytorin.
More on Google’s plans to sell ebooks. Even though publishers get to set price, Google retains right to discount at its own expense.
Previously announced collaboration between Nature Publishing and InnoCentive launches. Innocentives provides platform for problem “Seekers” to solicit solutions from problem “Solvers”–all with a life sciences focus.
CMPMedica announces new online healthcare education program for patients & their caregivers. Health Empowerment Initiative targets “knowledge gaps” in patient understanding to improve compliance with prescriptions and healthful behavior. Sounds interesting & I’ll check it out, but they should have come up with a better name for the program!
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February 2nd, 2010 at 12:13 am
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