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Headline Commentary Nov 1 - 8
- Posted November 8th 2009
- by Janice
NYTimes on how InterMountain Healthcare is adapting EBM practices to improve outcomes.
Short article on Intermountain health and how it is adapting EBM to improve outcomes.
Initiate Systems (healthcare data mgmt) acquire Accenx, a provider of health info exchange solutions.
Express Scripts partners with Greatwater S/w to provide PBM services to patients on kiosks in doctor’s offices.
Shwen Gwee’s presentation on Social Media usage in pharma. Excellent presentation.
Michael Milken’s FasterCures foundation site.
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, 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.
Data Advantage names to 75 hospitals in their value index.
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.
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.
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.
HealthCentral partners with 5min, an aggregator of health & wellness videos.
Quintiles continues to build alliances with big pharma for CRO.
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, 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.
For medical coding geeks only; an MD applies ICD-9 codes to daily living….
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.
Dr. Jerome Groopman (author of How Doctor’s Think) writes on limitations of current diagnostic methods and EBM.
Good commentary on recent TEDMED event. Key issue in “mainframe” mentality of existing medical system. Need to move to “health” system.
eHealth will focus on improving methods for sharing health info between patients and clinicians. Includes security features (patient ID, data privacy).
JNJ has launched project to market corporate wellness admin to other companies.
Live (and archived) coverage of BilPil healthcare “unconference” in San Diego from MedPage Today.
Some details on Nov 12-13 FDA public hearing on use of social media by pharma. list of speakers included
For medical professionals and patients.
Summary of SixUntilMe’s preso at epatient connections.
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.
MaryDee Ojala on DeepDyve’s new rental model for scholarly articles.
Philips introduces the Directlife device that calculates how many calories burned.
Report on some small steps taken by select providers to post prices of their services.
Susannah Fox’s preso from epatcon
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