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Dec 25, 2015	Morning Read: Theranos makes list of worst unicorns of 2015	LIFE SCIENCES Medical device manufacturer BionX Medical Technologies, which develops robotic prosthetic limbs for amputees, has raised an additional $17 million. — Xconomy Proteostasis Therapeutics Inc. has filed to go public, hoping to rai...
Apr 29, 2015	GSK gene therapy close to EU submission, CRISPR closes new cash, Takeda settles Actos (Morning Read)	It looks like GlaxoSmithKline will be the first big pharma company to file for marketing approval for a gene therapy to combat adenosine deaminase severe combined immune deficiency when it submits its drug for ADA-SCID in Europe, according ...
Apr 15, 2015	What are people saying now that the Senate has passed the Doc Fix bill?	Not surprisingly, the Senate passed the “Doc Fix” bill with a 92-to-8 vote yesterday. Obama will more than likely sign off on this legislation and we’ll be on our way in figuring out the pros and cons of what this change really looks like. ...
Mar 30, 2015	Crazy eyeball innovations, Hep C’s big Medicare price tag and a beautiful patient story (Morning Read)	Get ready to talk all your non-healthcare buddies down about futuristic eye innovations. It’s going very public very fast. Last week, we discussed 3D printed eyes with WiFi. Now people are talking about injecting eyes with night vision, and...
Mar 11, 2015	What do we really know about patients?	“Mary is a 90 year old woman that is admitted to the hospital for Congestive Heart Failure.” This is the beginning of the story that was told many times by the former Oregon Governor and Emergency Room Physician John Kitzhaber. “Under the c...
May 3, 2012	Clinical trial utopia could replace patients with supercomputers	Dr. Michael Smith, staff doctor, clinician and community liaison with Life Extension of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, believes that the former is possible as the use of supercomputers become ubiquitous. Completely replacing them is the dream of...
Nov 21, 2011	Price transparency is nice, but all-payer is better	By Merrill Goozner For all the talk about consumer driven medicine (it’s the basis for Republican plans to turn Medicare into a voucher program), why doesn’t anyone talk about pricing transparency in health care? Did you ever walk into a do...
May 20, 2010	Ohio, Minnesota hospitals join accountable care organization move	The “accountable care organization” is a construct of healthcare reform and is aimed at paying healthcare providers in ways that encourage them to work together to lower costs and raise care quality, according to Jason Shafrin, an economist...
Apr 15, 2010	Morning Read: The long, slow death of private practice	Promoted This Patient Experience Checklist Is Your Key To Success in 2021 As healthcare systems strive to recover from losses due to the pandemic, patient acquisition and retention have never been more urgent, and patient experience has nev...
Mar 10, 2010	Morning Read: What’s the most promising VC-backed health firm?	What cost controls? Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard economist David Cutler says that the health overhaul incorporates “virtually all” of the notable ideas about how to control health costs that have emerged in recent years. That...
Jun 13, 2007	Ringing in the healthcare-reform debate	(UPDATED: See below.) Ever since the Clinton health plan went down in flames 13 years ago, discussion of significant reforms to the U.S. healthcare system has been largely academic. Until now. Suddenly, serious talk about the ills of U.S. h...
	What do we really know about patients?	“Mary is a 90 year old woman that is admitted to the hospital for Congestive Heart Failure.” This is the beginning of the story that was told many times by the former Oregon Governor and Emergency Room Physician John Kitzhaber. “Under the c...
	Morning Read: Theranos makes list of worst unicorns of 2015	TOP STORIES Content will be light today as our staff take time off to spend the holiday with family and friends. We wish our readers a Merry Christmas! We’ll return next week with more stories taking stock of 2015 and previewing the coming ...
	Clinical trial utopia could replace patients with supercomputers	One of the biggest complaints about the U.S. regulatory system is that the clinical trials required to prove safety and efficacy are prohibitively expensive. But could technology help to justify that cost or reduce costly errors related to ...
	Ohio, Minnesota hospitals join accountable care organization move	University Hospitals and Summa Health System in Ohio, and Fairview Health Services in Minnesota are among 19 members of an accountable care organization collaborative launched today by healthcare alliance Premier Inc. The “implementation” c...
	What are people saying now that the Senate has passed the Doc Fix bill?	Not surprisingly, the Senate passed the “Doc Fix” bill with a 92-to-8 vote yesterday. Obama will more than likely sign off on this legislation and we’ll be on our way in figuring out the pros and cons of what this change really looks like. ...
	Morning Read: What’s the most promising VC-backed health firm?	Highlights of the important and the interesting from the world of health care: What’s the most promising VC-backed health company? Of the 10,000 venture-backed private companies in the U.S., VentureSource has taken a stab at picking the Top...
	GSK gene therapy close to EU submission, CRISPR closes new cash, Takeda settles Actos (Morning Read)	TOP STORIES Takeda has agreed to pay $2.4 billion to settle the Actos cancer lawsuits. NEA, Celgene and SROne have lead a $60 million+ round for CRISPR Therapeutics. It looks like GlaxoSmithKline will be the first big pharma company to file...
	Morning Read: The long, slow death of private practice	Highlights of the important and the interesting from the world of healthcare: The long, slow death of private practice: The ever-evolving worlds of medicine and business are conspiring to render traditional private practice medicine obsolet...
	Crazy eyeball innovations, Hep C’s big Medicare price tag and a beautiful patient story (Morning Read)	TOP STORIES Sticker shock on the costs of Hep C drugs means the industry better show ROI fast. Read this ProPublica piece for all the gaudiness: Medicare spent $4.5 billion on new hepatitis C drugs last year A great Q&A with Anne Parker...

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