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Headline Commentary Sept 21-26
- Posted September 26th 2009
- by Janice
Halamka names Quest’s Care360 e-prescribing solution as the “cool technology of the week”. Quest is offering a free six-month trial of the service.
Good examples of employers (Pitney Bowes) that are saving $$ on health insurance by offering incentives for healthy behavior. Employers may be the key reforming health care–with or without policy reform. But, they are awfully quiet in the policy debate.
Focuses on overpayment to Medicare Advantage providers.
Teamsters protest Whole Foods at Penton’s Natural Products Expo in Boston.
Video to promote upcoming conference on media convergence. Clever and entertaining presentation of info about media trends.
The future of cardiovascular medicine is here. It combines top-notch clinical resources with robust, future-oriented IT infrastructure and digital image management technology.
Uwe Reinhardt offers a primer on how to read health insurer’s 10-Ks.
2-day event sponsored by IOM about using evidence from medical practice to improve learnings about cancer treatment. Includes sessions related to outcomes data and patient-generated data on social networks.
Peter Jasco, who has written several previous in-depth reviews of Google Scholar, provides an update and describes why GS won’t serve as a citation analysis tool. Hmm, what does that say for “infodemiology” results mined from Google?
How doctors are adapting to growing number of e-patients who research their conditions and are well-read in medical matters.
FDA to hold hearings on use of social media by pharma.
New app converts ICD-9 codes to ICD-10 codes and has an iPhone version.
Quest Diagnostics, known primarily for its lab testing business, offers its Care360 e-prescribing s/w for free during a 6-month test. Quest is also beta-testing a Care360 EHR for small to midsize practices.
Short-term ROI horizon for health insurers hampers their investment in wellness and education programs with long term results.
Cogent opinion piece with good comments about future of scholarly publishing. Theme: journals as brand, not necessarily as primary distribution vehicle. Also, journals as just one component of scientific research content assets.
Elsevier’s Procedures Consult Online Training suite is now available for iPhone & iPod touch through partnership with Modality, which distributes mobile learning apps for several medical publishers.
NEJM series on health reform; this time why Accountable Care Organization (ACO) model could rein in costs.
Gawande, Gruber, and others on health care costs.
Great piece on Dave DeBronkart, aka e-Patient Dave, who is a founder of the new Journal of Participatory Medicine. Journal and its community aspire to change the culture of medicine so that patients have a more active role in all aspects of their healthcare and most of all, so that patients have full access to their medical records.
Very interesting: Humedica, a Boston area start-up, launches with $30M in 1st round funding from Bain, General Catalyst, NorthBridge and Leerink Swann. Several Leerink folks are on management team. Humedica plans national healthcare analytics business based on data from EMRs.
WK’s Adis R&D Insight adds “intelligent forecasting” from its pharma research service inThought to its drug pipeline info service.
Elsevier to award CEUs to reviewers of its Journal of EB Dental Practice.
Zagat tool for rating/recommending doctors incorporated into BCBS of Georgia’s online site for members. Makes sense to offer recommendations within a system.
Bids for 49% didn’t meet company’s target, so entire company may be for sale. There should be more interest for majority ownership, but expected price is probably still too high.
Good post on how the proliferation of ratings and awards for hospitals is diluting the effect. Also, high ratings doesn’t always equate with a good match for a specific patient.
Bank set up by Blue Cross/Blue Shield to manage HSA accounts to fold. Started in 2007; only achieved 2% of expected volume. I didn’t even know it existed.
Clinical Site Services, a service provider to CROs and service companies to help them with their site performance, launches its own site that provides health info with the goal of attracting users who may be prospects for clinical trials. Bus model rests on selling ads/sponsorships to CROs, etc. Interesting; will check it out later today.
Excellent points about how paying for routine care via insurance distorts market mechanisms (I’m applying my own analysis and terminology). But, having an intermediary that blocks and distorts price and cost information prohibits rational market mechanisms from working. See this article for an alternative model.
Uses MarkLogic for QualityAnalytics product that facilitates reporting quality measures and adds search features.
Good article that describes UK site that focuses on helping consumers interpret health articles. Mentions Bazian.com.
Thomson Scientific launches upgrade to TPharma that includes consensus analyst forecasts for strategic drugs across major pharma therapy areas & combines the forecasts w/ downloadable revenue models for drugs in over 100 indications.
John Halamka discusses the question of whether to wait until more details have been worked out about meaningful use of EHRs before moving forward with implementation plans. He suggests getting started early in order to meet requirements when they come due.
Inverness Medical Innovations to buy Free & Clear, a regional health services provider focusing on wellness and prevention.
Reports on how NPDB is used and indicates that most hospitals don’t report errors or misconduct by the doctors practicing there.
Post about new feed that aggregates tweets from 25 patient safety experts on Twitter.
Dell joins other computer hardware firms in expanding into bus. services with planned acq. of Perot Systems. Will help Dell in healthcare market. Expect more M&A activity with other firms involved (or trying to buy their way into) health IT.
More on FDA’s social media & pharma developments.
FDA to publish a survey on usage of social media by Pharm. Notice will be published today in Fed. Register. Here is an overview of what to expect by John Mack.
change:healthcare, a HC08 innovator, launches ability to post questions on Twitter about healthcare price info (e.g., Rx drugs) and other health issues — with focus on helping people save money.
Good points made about EBM. As I like to say, we have some work to do in improving state of EBM, but it beats the alternative of not basing diagnoses and treatments on available evidence…
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