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Headline Commentary Sept 27 - Oct 4
- Posted October 4th 2009
- by Janice
Fabulous case studies and overview of how the secondary data–or data that can be mined from digital repositories of health records and other recorded health event–from PWC.
Speaker from Allscripts addresses healthcare billing assoc. and says that opportunities exist in stimulus money for RCM solutions vendors to help practitioners implement EHR requirements and gave regional extension centers (RECs) as an example.
CDC funds 4 new centers of excellence in public health informatics at Harvard Pilgrim, Indiana university, U. Pittsburgh and U. Utah. Centers will conduct research using informatics and real-time surveillance of data from hospitals and healthcare systems to discern potential health threats.
RWJF page on health care quality.
Study on the effects of online support groups fails to yield positive results, but more study is needed.
NPR story on how mining Medicare and Medicaid data could provide insight into individual physician behavior.
PhRMA, the drug industry trade assoc., revised guidelines for clinical trials and emphasizes transparency in research articles and in reporting results of all trials. Pharma companies have been criticized for not reporting results of drugs that they drop from their pipeline. And recently Pharma and journals publishers have been strongly criticized for ghostwriting practices, where well-known academics are asked to put their name as lead author, even when they have very little involvement with the study.
Interesting. TR mines the ISI Web of Science database to predict this year’s Nobel prize winners based on citation analysis. Good example of applying predictive analytics and datamining as value-add to data assets.
GenomeQuest partners with Thomson Reuters to include TR’s Geneseq database with GenomeQuest’s analytic tools.
Peter Neupert, head of MSFt’s health group, recounts his wife’s experience having surgery (robot-assisted) at Swedish hospital in Seattle. He adds a political comment that a publicly run health system wouldn’t provide the same degree of innovation. Speculation at best.
As part of the Communities Putting Prevention to Work initiative, HHS makes $120 M available to US states & territories to use for prevention and wellness programs.
CVS and MSFT HealthVault now allow consumers to download prescription histories into individual HealthVault accounts.
News of layoffs and restructuring debt at Advanstar. Comments offer very negative views.
USA writes a commonsense article on comparative effectiveness research (CER)
Another example of partnerships with grocery chains to provide nutritional info to consumers. NuVal was in the news on Sunday for the nutritional labels they provide via several supermarket chains.
Accretive Health, an RCM services provider based in Chicago, files for IPO.
Phil Baumann provides more very helpful info on Google’s new Sidewiki.
Steve Woodruff provides an excellent clear description of Google’s new Sidewiki for comments. And, describes implications for pharma marketing.
Rundown of free and paid apps for medical formula calculations.
Lots of M&A activity by Pharma. Here’s a snapshot of some recent deals: Abbot/Sovay; J&J/Crucell, and more.
Spine-health.com wins Web Marketing Association award for third year in a row. Spine-health is a pioneer in providing an online community that provides authoritative health content for consumers and is evolving to become a central source of info for doctors, patient, and other stakeholders.
Fierce Healthcare names 9 to watch in healthcare. Funny they didn’t name 10. Includes Brailer, Levy, Sebelius, Ignagni, Gawande and David Rosenman.
Good review of multiple ways that doctors are using social media in their work.
Start-up in Sebastopol, CA that will demo at Health 2.0 2009.
AMA on comparative effectiveness (CER)
NYU Health Sciences librarian describes many roles of medical librarian in clinical setting. Includes participating in clinical rounds and directing clinicians to appropriate EBM resources and consumer health information.
Focus of partnership on developing monoclonal antibodies and vaccines for prevention of flu and other infectious & non-infectious diseases.
Even though PLoS has policy that requires authors to share data, a small sample indicates that the majority are not complying (1 out of 10 complied in this case).
Nice to see videos that provide info to patients and advocates on how to navigate hospital stays.
Congressman John Culberson (R) posts House healthcare care online using SharedBook and is allowing constituents to make suggestions with the Word-like markup tools.
NuVal, a Boston area start-up, provides rating based on nutritional value of foods. Scoring is done using ratio of good nutrients to harmful ingredients. Grocery stores are adding ratings to their shelf labels. Interesting–and based in my town of Braintree.
Victoria Espinel was appointed Copyright czar, with official title of “Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator.
Ringful, an Austin, TX-based company, will demo its PreventiveCare.mobi app at DEMO.
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