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Headline Commentary Oct 12-18

  • Posted October 18th 2009
  • by Janice
  • » DocSite Appoints Paul T. Sheils, Top Healthcare Executive, as New CEO | Reuters

    Paul Sheils, who has led many top quality healthinfo-related companies in the past, named CEO of DocSite. DocSite provides “modular, upgradeable, affordable, Web-based tools tied to evidence-based guidelines”. Interesting.

  • » Consumer-Directed Healthcare Leader, OptumHealth, Wants To Influence How Patients Choose Their Care - Better Health

    CEO of OptumHealth’s Care Solutions group describes their programs to encourage healthy behavior before and after health care is needed.

  • » HealthGrades study: 52 percent lower chance of dying at top-rated hospitals

    HealthGrades latest annual study of patient outcomes by hospital.

  • » Webmedx Launches New Data-Mining Solution for Medical Transcription and Speech-Generated Documents

    Webmedx, which transcribes doctors’ voice recordings, implements new system powered by MarkLogic to create indexed data that can be fed into other apps.

  • » Allscripts, Intuit Team to Speed Patient Bill Payment for Physicians Nationwide | Reuters

    Intuit’s Quicken Health Bill Pay partners with Allscripts to improve efficiency of patient billing. With better information provider to patients about what they owe, bills are being paid faster and can be paid online.

  • » News: Phase Forward, Gedeon Richter in Multi-year Deal (Clinical Trials Today)

    Phase Forward signs Hungarian pharma company, Gedeon Richter, to multi-year deal for PF’s clinical trial management s/w.

  • » Kaiser Permanente “Biobank” Receives $25 Million Grant from National Institutes of Health - RWJF

    RWJF funds Kaiser’s biobank, the largest and most diverse repository of data genetic data that includes info on lifestyle and environmental factors.

  • » Safeway’s Health Measures program follows healthcare-reform amendment - Drug Store News

    Incentives for employees to participate in wellness programs are growing. Safeway is an example of a company that offers financial rewards to employees who achieve certain wellness goals. To encourage similar programs, health reform legislation will increase existing limits for rewards. This amendment is becoming known as the “Safeway Amendment”.

  • » Teaching Students to Sift Mountains of Data - NYTimes.com

    Great article on imporantance of teaching students how to mine through and analyze data–an increasingly important skill especially in medical research.

  • » http://www.slideshare.net/JohnSharp/how-health-20-is-reshaping-medical-practice-and-research

    John Sharp’s presentation at Cleveland Clinic seminar on how IT is transforming medical practice and research. Good preso with good examples.

  • » http://www.tnr.com/article/tnr-debate-too-much-transparency-part-ii

    Lawrence Lessig warns that complete transparency of govt data will lead to misuse of data by those who draw incorrectclusions. Sunlight foundation begs to differe. My point: access to govt data provides opportunity for data publishers to build quality info products and market them.

  • » AMNews: Oct. 5, 2009. Doctor’s rap on H1N1 prevention wins HHS contest … American Medical News#w1

    Article on MD who won HHS contest to prepare a PSA on H1N1. Dr. Clarke wrote a rap music PSA. Links to Youtube video of him performing the short video included.

  • » How The Modern Patient Drives Up Health Costs : NPR

    How access to info–and especially DTC ads–help drive up costs by increasing demand for tests, procedures and drugs.

  • » Kent Bottles: The Problems That Health Care Reform Must Address « ICSI Health Care Blog

    Among issues mentioned in article, complexity of medical knowledge and explosion of # of journal articles.

  • » Harvard Medical School Presents HMS Mobile and Announces Plans to Launch iPhone Applications Aimed at Promoting Public Health - PR.com

    Harvard launches new mobile apps on public health, starting with H1N1 info.

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