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Headlines for Dec 1-3
- Posted December 3rd 2008
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- by Janice
“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.
InHealth Launches New Site
- Posted September 22nd 2008
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- by Marji
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.
