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Headline Commentary Nov 1 - 8

  • Posted November 8th 2009
  • by Janice
  • » Magazine Preview - If Health Care Is Going to Change, Dr. Brent James’s Ideas Will Change It - NYTimes.com

    NYTimes on how InterMountain Healthcare is adapting EBM practices to improve outcomes.

  • » When Doctors Create Their Own Evidence-Based Medicine - Health Blog - WSJ

    Short article on Intermountain health and how it is adapting EBM to improve outcomes.

  • » Initiate Systems Acquires Accenx | Reuters

    Initiate Systems (healthcare data mgmt) acquire Accenx, a provider of health info exchange solutions.

  • » New partnership pushes PBM services to kiosks in doctors’ offices | Healthcare IT News

    Express Scripts partners with Greatwater S/w to provide PBM services to patients on kiosks in doctor’s offices.

  • » Overcoming Our Social Challenges - Getting Started with Social Media in Biotech/Pharma

    Shwen Gwee’s presentation on Social Media usage in pharma. Excellent presentation.

  • » FasterCures - Patients Helping Doctors

    Michael Milken’s FasterCures foundation site.

  • » Jeff Arnold launches ‘next generation WebMD’  | ajc.com

    Jeff Arnold, fmly of WebMD and more recently HowStuffWorks, to lauchn Sharecare, a consumer health info site supported by medical device from a group of physicians.

  • » Sermo Launches the Practice Management Exchange to Support the New Physician Practice in a Changing Healthcare World | Reuters

    Sermo, the online community for doctors, launches new community for exchanging info on practice management for small & individual practices. Seems like a better app than their original app.

  • » 75 hospitals recognized for their exceptional quality achievements - ahier’s posterous

    Data Advantage names to 75 hospitals in their value index.

  • » http://www.slideshare.net/timoreilly/state-of-the-internet-operating-system

    Tim O’Reilly’s preso from PayPal Innovate 11/3/09. Good focus on “sensor data”, that is data are generated from wireless devices. Esp. important in healthcare.

  • » Why Comparative Effectiveness Research is a market opportunity | eyeforpharma.com | Pharma strategy for the busy executive

    Interesting review of recent report from Quintiles with thesis that pharma should take lead in establishing valuation system for their products in line with the comparative effectiveness (CER) concept.

  • » A New Market Opportunity | DeepDyve Blog

    DeepDyve’s CEO, Bill Park, provides detailed analysis of the market opportunity for their new rental model of articles. Nice to see him sharing so much detail.

  • » 5min and HealthCentral Announce New Online Health Video Network | Reuters

    HealthCentral partners with 5min, an aggregator of health & wellness videos.

  • » Quintiles inks pharma deals

    Quintiles continues to build alliances with big pharma for CRO.

  • » Former Genzyme executive joins cancer diagnostic business - The Boston Globe

    Mara Aspinall joins On-Q-ity as CEO. On-Q-ity (could they have created a more difficult company name to type?) was created by combining two investments of Mohr Davidow (Cellective Diagnostics and the DNA Repair company). On-Q-ity will focus on “developing new, cheaper and more effective treatments for cancer by tracking suspicious cells in a patient’s blood stream that indicate resistance to treatment, Aspinall said. On-Q-ity will focus on breast and thoracic cancers first, then prostate and other solid tumor cancers. developing new, cheaper and more effective treatments for cancer by tracking suspicious cells in a patient’s blood stream that indicate resistance to treatment, Aspinall said. On-Q-ity will focus on breast and thoracic cancers first, then prostate and other solid tumor cancers” (from PE Hub).

  • » Qforma Appoints Erin McLaughlin as Director, Field Operations | Reuters

    Qforma, a predictive analytics company that has an app that rates doctors based on their published writings along with the usual critieria, hires former WK Health (NDC) exec.

  • » http://getbetterhealth.com/using-icd-9-codes-to-describe-your-morning/2009.11.02

    For medical coding geeks only; an MD applies ICD-9 codes to daily living….

  • » The New PubMed: Trick or Treat? « Laika’s MedLibLog

    Librarians are not pleased with redesigned PubMed, which may be fine for simple text searches, but not for complex targeted searches. My reaction: PubMed’s redesign opens the door wider for commercial publishers who can present better alternatives. Problem: they will pay for access.Need to find out what s/w PubMed is using.

  • » Diagnosis: What Doctors Are Missing - The New York Review of Books

    Dr. Jerome Groopman (author of How Doctor’s Think) writes on limitations of current diagnostic methods and EBM.

  • » Healthcare@Intel · Musings from TED MED So Far: The Medical Model is Hard to Move Past

    Good commentary on recent TEDMED event. Key issue in “mainframe” mentality of existing medical system. Need to move to “health” system.

  • » GE launches new eHealth business unit

    eHealth will focus on improving methods for sharing health info between patients and clinicians. Includes security features (patient ID, data privacy).

  • » Corporate Wellness Programs: Healthier Employees, Lower Costs - Kaiser Health News

    JNJ has launched project to market corporate wellness admin to other companies.

  • » Medpage Today BilPil Page

    Live (and archived) coverage of BilPil healthcare “unconference” in San Diego from MedPage Today.

  • » Angie Hicks ‘95 Receives McDermond Medal for Excellence in Entrepreneurship
  • » FDA meeting on social media usage by Pharma

    Some details on Nov 12-13 FDA public hearing on use of social media by pharma. list of speakers included

  • » Organization focused on improving understanding of health statistics

    For medical professionals and patients.

  • » Six Until Me.: ePatient2009: Voice of the Patient.

    Summary of SixUntilMe’s preso at epatient connections.

  • » Ghost-writers Hired by Drug Companies Write Journal Articles, Then Find the Medical Authors | InjuryBoard Virginia Beach

    Detailed explanation of the process used by many pharma companies to find academics to serve as lead author for scholarly journal articles that are “ghostwritten” by professional writers hired by pharma.

  • » DeepDyve’s Rent-to-Own Service

    MaryDee Ojala on DeepDyve’s new rental model for scholarly articles.

  • » Philips DirectLife Review: A Tamagotchi for Calorie Counters | Slipstream | Fast Company

    Philips introduces the Directlife device that calculates how many calories burned.

  • » Taking the Mystery Out of Health-Care Pricing - WSJ.com

    Report on some small steps taken by select providers to post prices of their services.

  • » Trends: The Social Life of Health Information | Pew Internet & American Life Project

    Susannah Fox’s preso from epatcon

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