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Headlines for Dec 1-3

  • » FDA Partners with WebMD

    “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.”

  • » Health IT Cos See Big Pay off in Personalized Medicine | WorldHealthCareBlog.org

    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)

  • » Google Gears Down for Tougher Times - WSJ.com

    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 TV Launches - MarketWatch

    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.

  • » Healthcare Providers Now Able to Perform Real-Time Patient Eligibility Verification - MarketWatch

    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 Empowers Consumers, Businesses with Breakthrough Telemedicine Service - MarketWatch

    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.”

  • » Zimmer Holdings names McCaulley unit president

    Former CEO WK Health names president of Zimmer’s reconstructive unit, which brings in most of its revenue (which was $3.9B in 2007).

  • » App Aids in Clinical Trials Billing

    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.

  • » peHUB » Quintiles Buys Targeted Molecular Diagnostics

    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.

  • » MEDecision implemented by DC-based Medicaid provider

    DC-based Medicaid provider implements MEDecision analytical software that helps assess patients’ risk for certain diseases and recommends preventive care.

  • » Healthline Networks Selected as the Exclusive Search and Advertising Partner for Optumhealth’s New Consumer Health Portal, www.myOptumHealth.com

    Healthline to serve as ad rep for UnitedHealth’s new myoptumhealth.com consumer portal. Healthline search will be used on the portal, too.

  • » Changing the cost of healthcare - The Boston Globe

    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.”

  • » Elsevier’s EMBASE.com Partners With QUOSA - MarketWatch

    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.

  • » The Health Care Blog: Bringing Health 2.0 to doctors#more

    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’ Analytic Tools Improve Clinical Trial Design & Recruitment

    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.”

  • » Insurer Jumps Into Web - WSJ.com

    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.”

  • » peHUB » Genstar Buying Long Term Care Group

    “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.”

  • » AltSearchEngines » Blog Archive » The one where Hope reviews Google Health

    Hope Leman’s response to the question: “Is it a good idea or not to give Google your personal health information or data?”

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    Headlines for Nov 25-30

  • » Elsevier Library Connect Newsletter: Second Life: Figuring out the best usess

    Post by Elsevier software architect on how they are experimenting with using 2ndLife.

  • » Unbound News | Merck and Unbound Collaboration Extends Merck Manual Franchise

    Merck manuals Web and mobile versions made available in “digitally born” formats through Unbound Medicine, a healthcare knowledge management company.

  • » peHUB » Cmed Raises £5 Million

    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- Ad-ventures in Pharma Marketing II

    Med Ad News spotlights 4 innovative pharma marketing companies: 3FX, Aptilon, HealthTalker and Phreesia.

  • » http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/health/research/25trials.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

    Article about follow-on studies of drugs using larger more diverse populations than in clinical trials.

  • » Xconomy Closes Second Financing Round | Xconomy

    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.

  • » New $50M Medtech Fund Launched | Xconomy

    Boston-based Yankee Equity Solution has launced a $50M fund (YES Medical Technology Fund) to invest in medtech companies in Boston area.

  • » Microsoft Examines Causes of ‘Cyberchondria’ - NYTimes.com

    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 Library of Women’s Medicine

    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.”

  • » Health 2.0 Through the Eyes of a Diabetic - One Year Later | thekevinpipe.com

    A survey article of online health resources for patients. Article lists lots of sites, with little or no evaluation.

  • » An HIT Moment with … Steve Aylward

    Good interview with Steve Aylward, GM, Health & Life Sciences, Microsoft.

  • » Healthwise(R) Ix(R) Conversations Win 2008 Award From DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance - MarketWatch

    “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 Unveils the Next Generation Medication Safety Tool to Help Consumers Avoid Dangerous Drug Interactions - MarketWatch

    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.”

  • » Elsevier’s New ‘Imaging Consult’ Features In-Depth, Authoritative Information For Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging and Procedures in a Single Online Resource - MarketWatch

    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.”

  • » Health Blog : Media Skimp on Health Coverage

    WSJ Health Blog on shortcomings in health care journalism.

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    InHealth Launches New Site

    The Institute for Health Technology Studies (InHealth) has launched a new website (http://www.inhealth.org), an online community where site visitors can obtain the latest medical technology news and information.

    The portal, Delivering Evidence, contains news, journal abstracts, research, reports, blogs and other content that addresses the social and economic impact of medical technology. It also features interactive capabilities and tools that enable visitors to comment on news regarding specific medical areas (such as cardiovascular and orthopedics) and share their opinions with other site visitors. RSS feeds are also available for visitors, as well as podcasts and videos.

    The portal is targeting a wide range of users, such as policy developers, regulators, industry leaders, academics, economists, patient advocacy groups, the medical community and the news media.

    InHealth’s new site offers exactly what most online health information sites feature these days: a combination of content and community. Those are the two main components site visitors seek these days. They want a broad range of content in a variety of formats–from traditional articles to blogs and videos. They also want the experience to be more personal, which InHealth is also accomplishing through a community setting that enables visitors to comment on the content their read and share their thoughts with others. It’s clear that the InHealth folks did their homework before launching the site, and it should certainly help the non-profit accomplish its goal of educating interested parties about medical technology.