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Headline Commentary Aug 14-Aug17
- Posted August 17th 2009
- by Janice
Innocentive, a Boston-area company that offers online communities to help solve scientific problems, gets 2nd round funding. Pharma represents major client base.
Duke plans for new medical school that incorporates learning through practicing on high-tech simulation rather than just limited hands-on practice of the past.
Good article that 1)makes it clear that lots of research and CME material are funded by Pharma and 2) offers some tips on uncovering the funding behind research & cme programs.
Ex. of innovative solutions to health & wellness care: a health club where the dues include unlimited access to nurse practitioner (NP).
MDEverywhere, an RCM vendor to physicians, teams with DoctorsManagement to market provider credentiallying services, coding audits and seminars, insurance contract negotiations, and group purchasing services.
Another voice chimes in to question why Google doesn’t put more resources in Google Health.
Healthport, a health IT provider in Alpharetta, Georgia, files S1 for IPO. Hopes to raise $100 million. Healthport is owned by ABRY Partners. Thanks to PEHub for notification.
Discusses need to provide assessment tools for evidence based practices, which currently only exist for medical students.
One Equity invests $75M in ArthroCare Corp, a producer of minimally-invasive surgical devices.
Jay Parkinson, founder of Hello Health, offers a provocative prescription for US health system: scrap what we have and rebuild from ground up.
A site devoted to Twitter usage by pharma.
Article stresses how important digital strategies are to tradtional book publishers and how totally inept the publishers have been at adopting digital strategies and adapting to the digital world. Focus on UK, but applies equally well in the US.
Full art. avail only to subsribers. Covers effect of recent restrictions banning gifts from vendors to doctors, including meals.
A UK perspective on patient input.
Hospitals earn bonuses from CMS for meeting quality benchmarks, but as article points out, they lose other reimbursement money from CMS due to fewer admissions.
Nice round-up of recent chat on social media use for patients.
Anil Dash names the Exec. branch as most interesting start-up for its .gov online data initiatives. Data.gov, recovery.gov. ITspending.gov. Good post.
Plans for adding a rating system for Twitter users are apparently underway. Makes sense as # of users on Twitter rise quickly and sorting through all the possibilities is becoming more complex.
Interesting piece on how our brains seeks out more info to support what we “know” rather than info that contradicts what we “know”.
Sara Paretsky recounts her story of dealing with French bureaucracy when having to take her husband to the ER outside of Tours. Bureaucracy, yes, but no worse than in the US. The bill: $220.
Rational decisons about the ethics of costs for advanced medical technology aren’t sufficiently discussed, according to medial ethicist Callahan.
NY Times provides some broad-brush advice on how to find a doctor. As article points out, it is still very difficult to find sufficient info ahead of time to choose primary care doctor that suits your neds. Mentions HealthGrades, DocFinder,Consumers’ Checkbook and Angie’s List.
Verizon offers some health apps for some Verizon phones, but the costs start at $5.99/mo.
Senate looking into group purchasing organizations used by hospitals for conflicts of interest that lead to excessive costs for supplies.
Vitality, a Boston area company, creates “GlowCaps” for medicine bottle caps, which are connected to the Internet and blink and play a tune when it’s time to take medications. We noted this company before, but the GlowCaps just went on sale via Amazon (exclusively) yesterday (8/13/09). Vitality thinks payers (and possibly Pharma) will subsidize cost in future; for now, patients pay.
Brief article on Cengage’s new plan to rent textbooks to students. Books can be returned at end of course/year or purchased.
Long thoughtful post on Elsevier’s article of the future experiment. I don’t agree with everything author says, although I need more context to understand his comment about explaining content of scientific papers for lay people’s not being justifiied by scholarly publishers.
Short piece on how doctors are using online interactions, including Twitter, to communicate with patients. Linds to recent Thomson Reuters survey on doctors’ use of Internet for research & patient communication
“Health insurance plans have begun using digital games to improve health.” Esp. with children (but I’ve read other cases where Wii games are used with seniors). Humana’s chief of consumer innovation says they “want to encourage healthy behavior…and show people how to have fun doing what is good for them”.
CBO director on quality initiatives at the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). Link to full study.
Usage of Google’s Knol has drifted down and it seems likely that it won’t last much beyond 2 years.
Advice to and from doctors about using Facebook & other social media.
Quest Diagnostics, mostly known for their lab testing, also has eprescribing s/w, Care360 app, for medical practices.
Sales of ebooks grow rapidly, but not exponentially
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