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Headline Commentary June 29- July 6
- Posted July 6th 2009
- by Janice
Review of week’s top stories, including reactions to Chris Anderson’s new book, Free, video interview with Michael Hansen, new CEO of Elsevier Health Sciences, several articles about disruption in scholarly publishing, and other notable developments in health content publishing and health IT.
More on the “Free” as business model debate. See my comments on the post.
Walgreens may open several thousand work-site health clinics in coming years.
Using tag cloud to help understand key terms and contents of a book, Google Books now makes it easy to glean substance of books in seconds. Pretty cool.
List of open source resources that have gained traction in medicine in multiple categories, from EHRs to collaboration to publishing.
Connectyx’ MedFlash portable PHR enters sales agreement with Healthy Directions, a vendor of “science-based vitamin & nutritional supplement formulas” and other wellness products. By end of August 2009, Health Directions will offer the flash-drive MedFlash EPHR through its distibution channels. Comment: press release alludes to fact that the Healthy Directions’ audience, on average, is more interested in health & health-related products, than the general population and therefore is more likely to be interested in tracking their health-related behavior. Given the behavior of Healthy Directions’ audience, it makes sense for vendors of PHR technology to focus sales efforts on this group.
Apparently, a hospital is the worst place to be if one suffers cardiac arrest!
Massachusetts and Vermont ban on pharma and medical device companies’ giving gifts to doctors (anything from coffee mugs to trips) goes into effect today.
Wired lists new new entrants in search, including some vertical search engine–a couple focused on recipes!
Concerro, a vendor of SaaS workforce management s/w to hospitals acquires CommandAware, which provides hospitals a turn-key solution for emergency response.
Andrew Spong responds to Wiley-Blackwell’s recent press release that reports some results from recent survey of society publishers.
Very good article (although long) that lays out reasons why incumbents have difficulty adopting new technologies. I’d add that many large incumbent scientifc publishers have to innovate through acquistions because of the problems described in Nielsen’s article and because of constraints put on them by the financial markets (if they are public). Accounting for acquisitions allows them more freedom to “buy” vs. “make”. I totally agree about the need for scientific publishers (in fact, all publishers) to become proficient in IT. Technology is a key input to all content products & services; without constant innovation, publishers will get disrupted by new entrants. This relates to last week’s article, “Health Content is Rapidly Losing Its Value”.
Wolters Kluwer’s LWW partners with HealthStream, a leading e-learning and performance improvement provider to hospitals, to integrate Lippincott’s Nursing Procedures and Skills, into HealthStream’s Learning Center (HLC).
Using IVR technology, Doctors on Demand allows patients to call in and leave info, then get contacted by MD. Physical visits are required at least 1/year.
One doctor’s view of why tablet PCs work well in his environment.
UBM’s CMPMedica discontinues 2 print pubs and cuts unspecified # positions; some digital presence of pubs: Infections in Medicine and AIDS Reader will continue.
US Supreme Court declined to hear appeal from IMS and Verispan/SDI Health to overturn data privacy law in NH that prevents them from selling doctors’ prescribing behavior to drug marketers who use info to sell directly to doctors. VT & Maine have since enacted similar laws.
WK Health announces new research reports that incorporate data and analysis gleaned from their Adis R&D Insight, WK Healthcare Analytics (NDA), and other resources to suppy focused analysis on specific markets. inThought is targeted to financial analysts, health care suppliers and drug manufacturers. Seems like a logical extension to their data services.
Discussion about Chris Anderson’s new book, Free, and Gladwell’s critique of it in NewYorker. See my comments in the comment section.
Interview with new CEO of Elsevier Health Sciences, Michael Hansen. Describes EHS businesses and where they are focusing for growth (clinical decision support systems; outcomes analysis)
Outstanding presentation targeted to brand marketers/advertisers that presents variation on my thesis on convergence of publishing and advertising from the advertising agency perspective. As I wrote in 2003, “advertisers need to create more informational Web ads that will meet the standard of ‘related content’ rather than ‘vendor ad’”. In same paper, I wrote about how ad content is moving toward becoming ‘meaningful content’ and in some cases ‘entertaining’ content. See slides 5-60 in particular. Relevant to both publishers and marketers/advertisers.
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