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Headline Commentary Sept 8-Sept 13
- Posted September 13th 2009
- by Janice
Richard Boulderstone chairs global committee (with members from 50 countries) to provide access to scientific information through WorldWideScience.org.
Demand for patient advocates is on the rise. Clear indication that our healthcare system is not consumer-focused, since it takes a specialist to sort through the choices.
RWJF rebuts comments about high health care costs being a direct function of poverty. Issue is far more complex and poverty only explains a small portion.
JBat coos over DigitalGlobe, which takes satellite pictures of the entire earth and sells commercially (and esp. to govt.).
Alphabet soup of health IT standards described in this article. Although technical, it includes some very important points about data standards that allow interoperability.
Harvard drops its earlier policy to require med school students to filter media communications through Harvard’s communications office. Students are working with admin. to establish guidelines to protect patient confidentiality.
New study indicates ghostwriting prevalent even in top journals. Systems for requiring transparency in reporting relationships between industry and the research it funds are required if trust in scholarly medical publishing is to remain. Industry funding is needed, but researchers and other readers need to know who funded the research.
Since parting ways with Sermo earlier this year, AMA is forging ahead on its own in social media.
Dr. Kent Bottles, who heads the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (CSI), writes on how fear motivates and why fear tactics have become so prevalent in our current political environment. All in relation to health care reform.
Study compares official gov’t data on hospital quality against US News & World Report hospital rankings and finds that hospitals w/ best outcomes don’t correspond to US New’s rankings.
EBSCO opens up a sliver of its health info to the world for H1N1 info.
Joint Commission (JCAHO) is changing procedures for surveying hospitals that comprise a hospital system. In short, hospitals systems will be surveyed concurrently.
Harold Miller outlines critical payment reforms needed to put US healthcare system on track.
Logical Images renames its consumer website for skin health and wellness to Skinsight.com (fmly visualdxhealth.com)
More evidence of trend toward increased mergers among hospitals and physician groups.
Health Matrix, a health info company that provides drug info, licenses the GetFugu mobile platform to enhance access to its health info for professionals and consumers.
Retail clinics like CVS MinuteClinics expand their services to include treating chronic diseases such as asthma. Driver of expansion=need for more consistent revenue.
Burst Media, an ad network located in Burlington, MA, announces new Health & Wellness vertical that includes Healthguru.com. Burst previously had Wellness vertical; not sure if this replaces it.
Indepth article on “infodemiology”, a term to describe analyzing online data to extract intelligence on public health trends. I like the term & used it at last year’s Health Content event.
Details on Brill’s Journalism Online’s business model for paid access to online news.
Great list of data content built on open government data. I’ll check out Govpulse, which article says turns Federal Register into something more useful (sorted and searchable by dept and geography).
Interesting repositioning of the Economist & new ad campaign in UK.
Nice opinion piece that focuses on issue of improved evidence base for medical care. To those that oppose evidence-based medicine, my comment is: “do you prefer the opposite?” As this article points out, patients don’t know that half of treatment is not based on objective scientific research.
Nice thorough review of reference content currently available via Google Health. Google’s strategy toward content in GHealth still remains murky.
New site from FDA/USDA provides a central place to find info on food safety, recalls, etc.
Dr. Susan Love is building “an army of women” one million strong to serve as universe to be tapped for medical research/clinical trials. To date, site has 300,000. Dr. Love’s model also represents the new model for publishing: bringing parties together to faciliate transactions as well as exchange information.
List of lists for twitter feeds that cover women’s health. 10 lists in total. mostly good.
Ohio State School of Medicine has developed iPod Touch & iPhone apps for medical students.
This brings back old memories. Superior Capital, a MI PE company, buys National Archive Publishing, which was spun off from UMI/ProQuest (x years ago). National Archive includes XanEdu, the coursepack group, and microfilm, the original UMI product line.
Excellent brief article with link to slide presentation on ebooks. Note the comment about mobile being the fastest growing platform for non-US sales. Good comments on pricing and revenue models, too.
pMDsoft, “an elegant EMR front-end” announces interfaces with additional EMR, EHR and other health IT systems.
Psychiatrist Daniel Carlat skewers Schering-Plough for its marketing practices for its new Saphris antipsychotic drug. Dr. Carlat lists the compensation offered to him for promoting Saphris.
Information Week brief article on premilinary certification for health IT by CCHIT, in advance of full requirements for meaningful use (MU) from ONC by year-end.
Some good examples of value pricing (or at least new types of pricing) for healthcare.
Written by a designer, but article homes in on the business models for ebooks.
HITECH Act waters down the requirements for CPOE in its meaningful use (MU) definition.
CMS’ guidance pertains to states and HIEs.
Describes Epothecary system that uses bar codes & cell phones to authenticate Rx medications. Proposed usage in developing countries.
FDA launches real-time reporting of food safety issues by manufacturers & other industry players.
Insufficient labeling and regulation of vitamins and supplements contribute to serious side-effects of OTC supplements. Article incluees excellent list of resources for researching supplements.
Pharmavite, mfr of Nature Made vitamins & supplements, to offer vitaminID program to consumers. VitaminID provides individualized vitamin/supplement programs for consumers via a website enabled for ecommerce (of course). Newsletters & online chat with a dietician are included.
Three HIEs in Ohio and Indiana collaborate to increase interconnectivity.
Guardian lists top 100 tech media companies in UK.
Growing brouhaha in medical journal policies with JAMA arguing that writers have no right to comment on articles in any forum except through JAMA letters to the editor. Demonstrates how isolated medical journal publishers are from realities of social media and the influence of online communication.
A nice post that provides list of online anatomy resources. Good to find another medical librarian on Twitter.
Requirement that clinical trials be registered upon inception to ensure that all results are reported (not just positive results) has been largely ingnored according to this article.
David Rothman reviews new Gilbane Group report on ebooks.
Or, why publishers (content companies) should subsidize the costs of the reader! Razor/razor blades analogy anyone? Problem is that publishers are still resistant to e-books.
AHRQ is in process of releasing version 1.0 (from beta) of Common Formats for submitting patient safety information.
Google does analytics. Need to check it out in more detail, but this furthers Google’s expansion into publishing.
LEO Pharma, a privately-held pharma company specializing in dermatology & critical care will acquire Peplin, a public Australian company fo US$287.5 million in cash.
John Halamka’s recommended cool community hospital info sites: good examples of aggregating and displaying information.
Response to Ignagni’s editorial in NEJM, which expresses why health insurers are against a public plan.
Article dissects US News & World Report’s hospital rankings to performance reported in govt statistics and finds that US News’ rankings are based on handling of complex or unusual care. Comment: current state of ratings and rankings for hospitals and doctors are not very helpful in guiding consumer decisions in choosing providers.
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