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Headlines for Dec 15-26
- Posted December 26th 2008
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- by Janice
Sermo joins the fray — along with Google — in using online tools to track spread of flu. Sermo has advantage of compiling clinical observations rather than inferring data from search queries as does Google.
From Toronto Public Library Consumer Health Information Service, a list of top 10 health-related websites from 1999 and update on where they stand today, as well as some notable new sources.
Google’s Research Datasets project is shutdown. Announced about a year ago, Research Datasets was seeking to aggregate large datasets that backed research projects. One 30 datasets were uploaded, but some were huge (Hubble project with 120TBs). Media focus has pointed to storage costs as problem, but the need to reduce # of early-stage projects at Google also contributed to the decision. Google says it will focus on G Scholar instead.
Informa plans to cut its debt, which will likely require selling off some assets. In Healthcare (with heavy emphasis on Pharma BI), Informa owns Taylor & Francis publishing,PJB (Pharmaprojects, Scrip, and other pharma bi databases, publications and events),Citeline TrialTrove, and recently acquired Datamonitor (see: www.informa.com/divisions/academic_and_amp_scientific/informa_healthcare for full list. In other divisions, Informa is known as the owner of Lloyd’s list, finance and insurance publications, and global events producer IIR.
More on the investigation into undisclosed influence from Wyeth (purportedly hiring medical communications company to ghostwrite and article and finding an academic to put his name on it) in Elsevier’s American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Elsevier has launched its own investigation.
David Harlow takes the new Massachusetts’ online hospital database MyHealthCareOptions, for a spin. Reveals that cost data are only given in broad ranges and ratings in the form of star, which don’t provide sufficient data to make informed decisions.
PaidContent on 8-K filing by WebMD that reports a 4-5% workforce reduction at WebMD, accompanied by $2.5M restructuring charge.
Thomson Reuters to issue up to $3B in debt to use for general corporate purposes. Thomson Healthcare is a division of Thomson Reuters.
Health insurers and other payers are organizing community meetings to provide input into Obama administration’s health policy.
Wolters Kluwer Health’s ProVation medical coding product “has been designated Number One in the Clinical Procedure Documentation category of the 2008 Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Professional Services report”.
FDA study finds that information provided with new prescriptions fails to provide the level of usefulness called for by FDA: “The current voluntary system has failed to provide consumers with the quality information they need in order to use medicines effectively and safely,” said Janet Woodcock, M.D., director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. “Because the congressional goals have not been met, the FDA intends to seek public comment on initiatives that can be used to meet the goals.” “We need to work with pharmacy operators, drug manufacturers, health care professionals, and consumers to come up with a sensible, comprehensive and more effective solution,” said Woodcock. Link to full study included.
CMPMedica to provide drug info content to iSOFT, one of the world’s largest providers of healthcare IT solutions. (iSOFT press release was distributed on 11/25/08)
“Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), announces the launch of myLWW, a new, personalized and intuitive interface that integrates medical journal content and rich media to enable collaboration, sharing, and innovation among medical professionals. LWW is part of Wolters Kluwer Health.” Uses MS Sharepoint to host over 280 journals and allows collaboration.
“The Center for Improving Medication Management ( The Center ) today launched http://www.LearnAboutRxSafety.org, a new Web site where consumers can learn how to use medications safely. Developed in conjunction with the National Council on Patient Information and Education ( NCPIE ), the Web site is primarily intended as a resource for families and all individuals seeking information on medication safety. The Center will collaborate with consumer organizations, provider and payer organizations and other groups interested in promoting medication safety and adherence for consumers.”
KLAS’ annual Best in Klas winners announced and listed in this article.
Xconomy reports on how foundations are more carefully considering the investments they make in pharma and biotech companies due to the economy. Cites a CenterWatch study.
MediKeeper provides web-based PHR technology for providers and employers and is now partnered with Dossia.
2009 edition of Scrip 100 - Informa Healthcare’s annual analysis of pharma industry is now available online: http://www.scripnews.com/supplements/download_today/Scrip-100
Headlines for Dec 1-3
- Posted December 3rd 2008
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“The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and WebMD are partnering to expand access to timely and reliable information for consumers. FDA Consumer Health Information will be featured on WebMD’s site and in WebMD The Magazine.”
Summary of some comments from HP, Siemens and Oracle at last month’s Personalized Medicine meeting at Harvard about the bright prospects for health analytics companies with the growth in personalized medicine. (Note, the Harvard meeting unfortunately coincided with our Health Content08 conference)
No mention of GoogleHealth in this article, but tightened financial controls and focus on products that generate revenue could affect the status of GHealth within Google.
HealthDay partners with NewProNet, a producer of original syndicated news services for local broadcasters & online news sites, to launch HealthDay TV to supplement its news service.
SunTrust eClaim Revenue Gateway announced by SunTrust Banks. eClaim Revenue Gateway is a secure online platform for RCM–providing eligibility verification and claims submission and reconciliation.
SwiftMD announces launch of its Web and phone-based medical consultation & patient ed services. Focuses on providing urgent and non-critical consultation over the phone, internet, or bi-directional video. “There is a one-time registration fee for the set-up of a member’s secure and HIPAA compliant personal health record (PHR), a monthly membership fee and a consultation fee for each SwiftMD visit. SwiftMD doctors interact with members by phone or Internet, review members’ PHRs and diagnose non-critical illnesses or conditions.”
Former CEO WK Health names president of Zimmer’s reconstructive unit, which brings in most of its revenue (which was $3.9B in 2007).
New module in GE Healthcare’s Centricity Business revenue cycle management, Patient Protocol Manager, enables scheduling appts and integrates with billing system to help determine financial responsibility for charges. Includes a single data repository for clinical trial subjects.
Quintiles Transnational, a leading CRO that provides drug development, strategic partnering & commercialization for the pharma, biotech, and med device industries, acquires Targeted Molecular Diagnostics, a developer of biomarket technologies for oncology research.
DC-based Medicaid provider implements MEDecision analytical software that helps assess patients’ risk for certain diseases and recommends preventive care.
Healthline to serve as ad rep for UnitedHealth’s new myoptumhealth.com consumer portal. Healthline search will be used on the portal, too.
CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts writes on need to base provider payments on quality of outcomes, not fee-for-service. His comment that “as much as 0 percent of all healthcare spending could be eliminated without reducing quality” [if we can eliminate unnecessary tests and services]reminds me of the truism in advertising: “I know half my advertising expenditure is wasted, I just don’t know which half.”
Quosa, which already works with Elsevier’s SCOPUS, now can be used with EMBASE. Quosa is “a specialist software company…to life-science professionals” and facilitates reference management and literature management for project teams.
Harvard Medical resident, Brijesh P. Mehta and Nambi Nallasamy, a student at Harvard Medical School, have created MedicalPlexus “for the purpose of improving collaboration between colleagues, effectively disseminating medical knowledge, and, ultimately, improving patient care. We wanted a place where doctors are able to share valuable content easily.”
Eidetics, now a division of Quintiles Consulting, will use its data analytics app, Provenance, to mine clinical tirals with >2.5M patients for Quintiles. ““Part of what we do is to help clients design and execute clinical trials in a way that allows them to recruit more effectively and efficiently, target the right kind of patients, and measure the right endpoints.” That Provenance provides a panoramic view of complex data and utilizes advanced data mining techniques and Bayesian networks may well position Quintiles to take a leadership position within the world of adaptive clinical trials, says Kirk. To date, Quintiles has conducted 400 trials using electronic data capture.”
UnitedHealth launches myoptumhealth.com. “Run by UnitedHealth’s health-and-wellness services unit, OptumHealth, the site includes tools to check symptoms, a search engine for finding specific health or disease information and a repository where consumers can maintain their personal medical information.”
“Genstar Capital has agreed to acquire Long Term Care Group Inc. from Advent International and CCP Equity Partners. No financial terms were disclosed. LTCG is an Eden Prairie, Minn.-based provider of outsourced services to the long term care insurance industry and the geriatric care market. It will serve as the cornerstone of a new senior care services platform called UniVita.”
Hope Leman’s response to the question: “Is it a good idea or not to give Google your personal health information or data?”
Headlines for Nov 25-30
- Posted November 30th 2008
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- by Janice
Post by Elsevier software architect on how they are experimenting with using 2ndLife.
Merck manuals Web and mobile versions made available in “digitally born” formats through Unbound Medicine, a healthcare knowledge management company.
Cmed Group, a CRO based in Horsham, PA, receives 5M GBP from Scottish Equity Partners to fund global expansion of Timaeus, an intelligent data acquisition & mgmt solution for gathering clinical data.
Med Ad News spotlights 4 innovative pharma marketing companies: 3FX, Aptilon, HealthTalker and Phreesia.
Article about follow-on studies of drugs using larger more diverse populations than in clinical trials.
Now in its 2nd year, Xconomy, on web-based technology publication and events producer, raises 1st tranche of 2nd round. Xconomy covers the “exponential economy” with focus on high tech, healthcare/biotech/devices, and energy in Boston, Seattle & San Diego. Founded by ex-Tech Review execs.
Boston-based Yankee Equity Solution has launced a $50M fund (YES Medical Technology Fund) to invest in medtech companies in Boston area.
Recent study by MSFT researchers (info retrieval expert and MD/computer scientist) suggests “suggests that self-diagnosis by search engine frequently leads Web searchers to conclude the worst about what ails them.”
Global Lib. of Women’s Medicine launches in beta (11-19-2008). Open access. “The objective of this site is to support clinicians in their care of women. It is hoped that the information provided – which is designed to be up-to-date, expert and practical – will be a useful resource for all physicians and, in addition, that it may be of particular benefit where access to the latest textbooks and references is difficult.”
A survey article of online health resources for patients. Article lists lots of sites, with little or no evaluation.
Good interview with Steve Aylward, GM, Health & Life Sciences, Microsoft.
“A new tool for health plans, providers, portals, and disease management organizations, Ix Conversations help health care consumers self-manage major health issues like heart disease, diabetes, asthma, healthy weight, and smoking cessation.”
Drugs.com launches new tool, MedNotes, that helps consumers monitor and manage their medications. MedNotes is free and “can also be used to create printable personal health and medication records. Accessible directly at www.drugs.com/mednotes, MedNotes is linked into Google Health’s online health records system as a personalized drug safety management tool.”
Latest in Elsevier’s “Consult” product line of EBM resources, “Imaging Consult provides thousands of high-quality images and anatomic drawings that help radiologists identify typical, variant, and differential-diagnosis findings. The extensive reference material included with each topic contains detailed explanation of how the image findings correlate with anatomic and pathological changes.”
WSJ Health Blog on shortcomings in health care journalism.
Headlines for Nov 24
- Posted November 24th 2008
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WSJ Health Blog on shortcomings in health care journalism.
Reports on SciVee, a video technology platform “much like YouTube’s. SciVee enables scientists across a host of disciplines to create content in any field of science, technology, or medicine. Bourne says K-12 teachers and other educational users also are using SciVee to post videos like this for younger students to access. About 1,000 users have posted videos on the site so far.” Not open-access, rather they have a user-paid revenue model.
NY Times reports on ties between some health journalists and drug companies.
“Quality/EqualityQuality/Equality / Quality/Equality newsroom / News digest News releases Stories and articles News digest Perspectives and commentaries Grantee profiles Video and audio Media inquries Joint Commission Proposes Guiding Principles for Hospital ImprovementPrint E-mail Bookmark RSS Text size: A A A Nov 21, 2008 The Joint Commission has released a new report outlining guiding principles and actions for hospitals and providers in five core areas to better meet the needs of an aging patient population, improve patient safety and care quality, enhance financial performance, and address workforce shortages…”
Richard Saul Wurman and others revive TEDMED to be held in San Diego at The Hotel Del Coronado from Oct. 27-30, 2009. “The fifth annual TEDMED event is intended to serve as the same sort of forum for mesmerizing, rapid-fire presentations about medicine, health care and life sciences that Wurman created with the original TED event in 1984.”
“the Kaiser Family Foundation is starting a news service to produce in-depth coverage of the policy and politics of health care, both for an independent Web site and in collaborations with mainstream news organizations.” See also, Paidcontent.org for more analysis.
WKHealth’s Lippincott Williams & Wilkins’ “NursingCenter.com now provides over 900 peer-reviewed continuing education activities and free access to 11,000 articles from more than 50 leading nursing journals.” Interface updated, too with new interactive multimedia tools for CME and clinical research.
CCHIT site that follows developments in EHR adoption.
Informa Medical Publishing announces E-MedINFORM, a plaform for pharma companies to sponsor educational learning modules for physicians from Informa Medical Publishing’s clinical books, journals or customized content.
“Online health insurance portal GoHealthInsurance.com recently partnered with HealthDay.com ( http://www.healthday.com) an online health news syndicator based in Norwalk, Connecticut, to provide health insurance shoppers with the latest in health and health insurance news.”
Article makes point that big IT companies like Intel, Apple are eyeing healthcare sector for growth. Obviously, GE, Siemens and others already have major healthcare divisions, but continue to see growth in this sector.
Headlines for Nov 17-19
- Posted November 19th 2008
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- by Janice
Instead, WebMD will acquire minority interest in MTS (owner of QualityHealth.com) and have entered into an advertising services agreement,where WebMD will represent a portion of QualityHealth.com’s media inventory and will provide some of its inventory to QH.
Dr. Val provides the skeptical view of “crowdsourcing” from online social networking sites for clinical trials. My view: the medium shouldn’t matter. Good clinical trials could be set up online, if done with care.
Press release to announce increased use of “tall man” drug lettering to avoid confusion between drug names in the Medi-span drug databases produced by WK Health.
“President-elect Barack Obama’s incoming White House chief of staff challenged chief executives and other business leaders Tuesday night to join the new administration in a push for universal health care, saying incremental increases in coverage won’t be acceptable.”
Interesting article about how Google and P&G are collaborating to explore how each other’s approach to advertising (and company culture)could learn from the other’s. This article could apply to pharma companies just as well as CPG companies.
Summary of David Brailer’s speech at Harvard’s symposium on personalized medicine.
John Halamka on CMS’s announcement about pilot program in UT and AZ to allow Medicare patients to access their claims data from CMS dbs via GoogleHealth, NoMoreClipboard, HealthTrio and PassportMD.
Atypon, a hosting and CMS company that targets scholarly publishers (e.g., journals publishers), acquires eMeta from Macrovision (which bought eMeta for $35M in 2006). eMeta adds publishing services, ecommerce, and rights managements to Atypon’s portfolio.
Physicians’ Foundation conducted survey of 270,000 doctors; responses form 12,000 general practice physicians indicate that 60% would not recommend medicine as a career almost half plan to cut back on # patients they see or retire from practicing medicine.
Interview with Cella Irvine, former Digitas exec, who now heads About.com.
CVS.com and yourhealthconnection.com names best overall internet site and 2nd place health content site respectively by eHealthcare Leadership Awards sponsored by eHealthcare Strategy & Trends magazine.
Marydee at Info Today reviews DeepDyve’s free version. Mostly positive comments, but her comments indicate that the KeyPhrase algorithm requires a change in search strategy and even DeepDyve needs to clarify its advice on how to search using large chunks of content from a document.
Tellurian Networks “provides hosting services for 94 physician clients, such as practices or independent practice associations, at 565 locations representing 13,000 physicians. It will continue to operate facilities in Newton and Los Angeles.”
Commentary on big pharma’s plans to fight Medicare price negotiations. Article questions how much pharma will spend on a losing battle.
Health Content08 Review
- Posted November 18th 2008
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- by Janice
Our theme for Health Content08 was Incumbents, Innovators, and Intermediaries. The conference demonstrated through programming, presentations and executive panel discussions how IT and the movement toward consumer-directed healthcare are forever changing the way healthcare publishers produce and deliver information to patients, medical professionals, and healthcare payers and administrators.
At Health Content08, we brought together CEOs and strategists from leading consumer health media companies and professional medical publishing companies in our morning panels to offer, in the words of one of the panelists, a view of “industry-specific trends in the context of our respective strategies“. These morning panels, and the keynote by West Shell III, Chairman and CEO of Healthline Networks, were highlights of the event.
The afternoon sessions explored our main themes in more detail through case study presentations. EBSCO Publishing, HealthGrades, Staywell Consumer Health, Advanstar Communications, BenefitFocus Media, Trigram America, and Consumer Reports all offered insight into how they are transforming their information into interactive information tools and livening up their content with video, audio, and integration into customers’ workflow. We closed the program with a look at how personalized medicine will affect the production and consumption of health care information.
Wednesday afternoon’s Innovators Showcase proved to be a huge success. Eleven early stage health content companies took the stage and wowed our audience with their new approaches to helping consumers and professionals solve their information needs.
Once again, I would like to thank our superb speakers. One attendee went out of his way to tell me that he learned something in every session. We will have to work hard to outshine the quality of the panelists and presenters from this year’s event. It was our goal to provide the audience a better understanding of the connection between consumer and professional healthcare publishing and based on feedback from the audience-and speakers-we succeeded.
We will draw on the examples from Health Content08 in future posts to this e-newsletter. For those of you who attended Health Content08, thank you. It was a pleasure to meet all of you. For those of you who missed the event this year, we hope to see you at the next Health Content conference. ICYOU.com will have some videos from the event to share with everyone very soon.
We start planning for our next event immediately and will continue to report on notable developments in health content in our Health Content in Perspective blog/e-newsletter. We welcome feedback on the conference and would be delighted to hear from potential speakers and ideas for next year’s program.
Headlines for Nov 13-16
- Posted November 16th 2008
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B. Globe on PatientsLikeMe and other social networking sites for patients and how the pool of participants are increasingly being used as research participants. A key theme at Health Content08.
Long investigative piece in B. Globe on lack of price transparency in hospitals, with focus on varying prices paid by insurers for same procedure in different hospitals. Article elicited large # comments from readers, pointing out some shortcomings, but data that are reported clearly hit a nerve.
New HHS site (AHRQ) that provides an aggregate look at all teh quality and performance improvement measures throughout HHS.
Press release from HealthCentral about their new ad network.
Press release from Icyou.com announcing Nina’s participation on the Lively Up Your Content panel at Health Content08.
David E. Williams on pros and cons of home monitoring devices, as relates to Intel’s new initiatives in this space.
HealthGrades is participating in sponsoring a portal (PlanSmartChoice.com) for federal employees to help them select their health care coverage, along with Asparity Decision Solutions
“QualityHealth.com is the leading provider of performance based targeted healthcare advertising and information on the Web.” Press release goes on to explain that QualityHealth.com ” QualityHealth.com offers consumers health savings opportunities along with insightful content such as our new ‘Expert Q&A’ section that can help people make the right choices when it comes to their health.”
Commentary on the slow pick-up of PHRs.
Health Content Innovators Take Center Stage at Health Content08
- Posted November 14th 2008
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- by Janice
Our Health Content08 Conference, held Wednesday & Thursday of this week was a resounding success. We’d like to thank the outstanding speakers, advisory board, sponsors and engaged audience for their participation. More reviews of the conference will be posted soon, as well as links to session videos for those who attended. For now, I append the press release that details the early-stage companies that dazzled us at the Wednesday afternoon Innovators Showcase. [Note, BodyMaps was unable to attend.]
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Wed Nov 12, 2008 8:00am EST
Conference, produced by Health Content Advisors, convenes
commercial health content producers and syndicators in both consumer
and professional markets
PHILADELPHIA–(Business Wire)–
Health Content Advisors, (www.healthcontentadvisors.com) (a
division of InfoCommerce Group, Inc. (www.infocommercegroup.com) is
pleased to announce the winning entrants to present at Health
Content08’s Innovators Showcase being held today, Wednesday, November
12 from 2-5pm.
The debut Innovators Showcase is being held in conjunction with
Health Content08, a full-day conference that takes place on Thursday,
November 13, from 9 am to 5 pm, both at the Park Hyatt, Philadelphia.
It is being sponsored by Berkery, Noyes.
The theme of Health Content08, Incumbents, Innovators, and
Intermediaries, was chosen to highlight how technology and market
forces are driving health content publishers to innovate or partner to
meet new market opportunities.
The twelve early-stage health content companies selected to
present at the Innovators Showcase include:
BodyMaps, Paramount, CA
change:healthcare, Franklin, TN
eCaring, New York, NY
ENURGI, Singer Island, FL
DeepDyve(TM) (formerly Infovell), Menlo Park, CA
GenomeQuest, Westborough, MA
HealthWorldWeb, Staten Island, NY
Healthcare News Network, Cape Coral, FL
Healthy Humans, Wayne, PA
OneClickMed, Mesa, AZ
PatientImpact, Evanston, IL
RemedyMD, Sandy, UT
At Innovators Showcase, you will hear from companies that are:
– creating and transforming content to provide better sources of
healthcare information to consumer markets;
– creating infrastructure and integrating data with applications
to improve the flow of information between stakeholders; and
– capitalizing on the trend toward personalized medicine.
The value-added health care information and decision tools
produced by these innovators are transforming the market for health
care information used by all stakeholders in the health care industry,
including hospitals and physician practices, medical and clinical
researchers, consumers/patients, pharmaceutical companies, patient
advocates and other intermediaries.
Of special note, OneClickMed is making its debut at Health
Content08 and Infovell is announcing its new name and brand identity:
DeepDyve (TM).
The full program is available at: www.healthcontent08.com, with
detailed schedule at:
http://www.healthcontentadvisors.com/2008/11/05/schedule-for-health-co
ntent08/. (Due to its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted
into your Internet browser’s address field. Remove the extra space if
one exists.)
ABOUT HEALTH CONTENT ADVISORS
Health Content Advisors provides consulting services to consumer
and business health content companies and serves as an industry
connector and arbiter of best practices and trends. It continually
monitors and interprets shifts in information usage in all sectors of
the healthcare market to guide publishers in their current business
and identify opportunities. Its blog, Health Content in Perspective,
is issued every week and can be accessed at
http://www.healthcontentadvisors.com/blog/. More information about Health
Content Advisors is available at http://www.healthcontentadvisors.comor by
calling 781-356-1766.
InfoCommerce Group, Inc.
Roxanne Christensen, 610-505-9189
rchristensen@infocommercegroup.com
Copyright Business Wire 2008
Health Central President, Jeremy Shane, Added to Health Content08 Program
- Posted November 7th 2008
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Just 5 days away! Limited Seats Remain
Health Content08 is just 5 days away and we’re busy making final preparations for the event. The response to our second annual conference has been extremely positive and we’re looking forward to spending a day and a half with an enthusiastic group of key decisionmakers in the health content sector who are shaping the future of information resources for physicians, consumers, providers, and other stakeholders in the healthcare industry.
We would like to announce the latest additions to our speaker roster and offer a brief recap of program highlights and schedule.
Recent additions to our speaker roster include:
- Thomas Johnsrud, EVP, Trigram America
- Scott Meyer, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Warburg Pincus
- Anne Seymour, Associate Director, Biomedical Library, University of Pennsylvania
- Jeremy Shane, President of Health Central Network
Health Content08 kicks off with the Innovators Showcase on Wednesday, November 12. This event will highlight 12 companies that our advisory board has chosen as noteworthy examples of early-stage companies that are poised to produce positive change for publishers and consumers of health care information. The presenting companies will be announced in a press release on Wednesday.
Thursday’s full-day program includes a blockbuster array of speakers representing the top medical and life science publishers, CEOs of the largest online consumer health companies, investment analysts who track the hottest sectors within health care, leading health content consultants, publishing experts who apply technology to content to create decision tools, medical librarians, and superstar MDs who succeed in business as well as medicine. This mix of speakers from the professional and consumer segments is designed to shine a light on cross-over opportunities for publishers that may not have considered serving non-traditional segments.
The full conference schedule has been posted online to facilitate networking at the event. If you are registered and haven’t yet received the preshow list, please contact me at: jmccallum@infocommercegroup.com.
Register now before it’s too late!
Headlines for October 31-Nov 3
- Posted November 3rd 2008
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WK Health’s Healthcare Analytics group’s Source and PHAST databases contracted to FDA for prescription usage analysis.
Hewlett Foundation is funding a study/paper on Health Open Education Resources (OER).
Brief piece in PaidContent.org on Harvard’s decision to back out of Google Book scanning project after recent settlement. Includes link to Crimson article.
MD Consult launches German version, DoctorConsult.
An AHC article looks at cost/benefit of EMRs for ambulatory surgery centers, based on survey by WK Health.
Robert Becker moves from CEO of Law & Business to CEO, Wolters Kluwer Health. It will be interesting to see if Becker’s success in Legal/Accounting will translate to the healthcare industry.
HAVAS working with WebMD’s Medscape to market “Virtual Convention Booth” to substitute for onsite clinical conferences.
Another voice on what health2.0 is and how it is hyped. Our view: like Web 2.0, Health 2.0 is overhyped, since convergence of IT and health information/healthcare workflow is an evolutionary process, not a step function.
“Since its launch, 23andMe has made significant strides towards achieving its goal of becoming the world’s most trusted source of genetic information. The Personal Genome Service has greatly expanded - from having detailed genetic associations for 13 health conditions and inherited traits last November to its current offering of over 90 conditions and traits. In an effort to democratize genetics, 23andMe has decreased the price of its service from $999 to $399 and also has launched community features that allow customers to connect to others with similar genetic make-ups or interests and learn about the latest research.” 23andMe,co-founded by Anne Wojcicki, who is now married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
Time Mag reports on NEJM article about results of the HCAHPS survey (part of the CAHPS program within CMS that requires patient satisfaction surveys be tabulated and made available online). Note, HCAHPS results are available at www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov. Kaiser recently reported that only 6% of consumers know of its existance. Articles in pubs like Time will help!
