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| Feb 25, 2016 | Prescription drug price reform is a hot topic in presidential race, but candidates fail to grasp nuances | It’s pretty obvious why the candidates are all talking about drug prices. Public opinion polls routinely show it as a top issue the public wants addressed. The October monthly tracking poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation found strong maj... |
| Dec 17, 2013 | Lupe Fiasco's health startup higi acquires challenge and rewards platform Earndit | Chicago-based higi, a digital health company that powers health kiosks in thousands of retail locations in the US, acquired New York and Seattle-based challenges and rewards platform Earndit last month. Financial details of the transaction ... |
| Sep 20, 2013 | 5 blog entries you need to read to end National Health IT Week | It’s been a week stuffed with acronyms and insights on how health IT can improve patient safety while making patient medical records more easily accessible. As you wind down from the excitement and stress of National Health IT week chill ou... |
| Mar 14, 2011 | Healthcare arrives at SXSW (Morning Read) | SeeMyRadiology
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Telemedicine’s potential to provide healthcare to the world’s most vulnerable
Teladoc Health Head of R&D Yulun Wang highlights the impact of virtual care in underserved populations around the globe through the Wo... |
| Mar 7, 2011 | Patent cliff means panic time for big pharma (Morning Read) | Current medical news and unique medical news for anyone who cares about the healthcare industry.
Patent cliff in horrifying context. The New York Times this weekend quantified the patent cliff, which this year will jeopardize $50 billion in... |
| Jan 28, 2011 | Federal suit targets Boston Scientific, Guidant (Morning Read) | Promoted
Telemedicine’s potential to provide healthcare to the world’s most vulnerable
Teladoc Health Head of R&D Yulun Wang highlights the impact of virtual care in underserved populations around the globe through the World Telehealth ... |
| Jan 28, 2011 | California health insurers defer rate hike | MASSDEVICE ON CALL — California health insurers defer rate hike. Aetna, Anthem Blue Cross and PacifiCare agree to delay for 60 days increases to premiums for California customers with individual policies while they are reviewed by the state... |
| Jan 27, 2011 | Individual mandate challenge lands new court date in May | MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Individual mandate challenge gets May date. The Richmond, Va.-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit agreed to expedite its consideration of challenges to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s req... |
| Jan 27, 2011 | Investing in innovation: Biomedical? Or something else? (Morning Read) | The tired argument reappeared that government can’t fuel innovation (SBIR anyone?), though there’s a greater concern that there can’t be innovation spending without specific government cuts.
Eight tips for medical school. Medical students s... |
| Dec 6, 2010 | Kindler out, biopharma head Read in, at Pfizer (Morning Read) | Biotech cowboys come clean. Here’s how — especially in today’s sluggish economy — people muster up the guts, raise the mountains of cash, and find the staying power to do something truly big and unprecedented — like create a regenerative me... |
| Nov 19, 2010 | MassDevice On Call: Senate delays Medicare rate cut | Senate delays Medicare rate cut. The U.S. Senate yesterday unanimously approved a measure to block a scheduled rate cut by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, preserving doctors’ pay and likely forestalling their mass exodus fro... |
| Nov 16, 2010 | Universal Health biggest in psychiatric services (Morning Read) | $1B-worth of help for small biotechs. In all, 2,923 companies in 47 states and the District of Columbia received 4,606 Therapeutic Discovery Project Program awards, for a total of $1 billion in grants and tax credits for biomedical research... |
| Nov 16, 2010 | MassDevice On Call: Doctors attempt first stem cell treatment for stroke patient | Doctors attempt first ever stem cell treatment for stroke patient. Doctors in Scotland injected stem cells into a man’s brain in an attempt to treat the disabilities that resulted from a stroke, according to the BBC.
Senators prepare to “sh... |
| Oct 19, 2010 | Nashville’s medical trade center good for economy (Morning Read) | Healthcare jobs healthy now, but… The healthcare sector continues to create jobs as the economy recovers, but there are indications this may taper off, according to a report in American Medical News.
Aastrom on fast track to stem cell thera... |
| Oct 14, 2010 | Group purchasing organizations spin cost savings (Morning Read) | AT&T’s deal with WellDoc is big. AT&T announced plans to offer WellDoc’s FDA-approved mobile phone-based diabetes management solution to a select group of AT&T employees sometime in 2011, according to Mobihealthnews.com.
Hospita... |
| Oct 5, 2010 | Colcrys: the dark side of market exclusivity (Morning Read) | Snake oil peddlers sold public on health reform. The Patient Protection and Unaffordable Care Act (Obamacrap) is delivering silent tax increases to fund the mess, opines InsureBlog as it reveals the “truth” about 13 tax changes that are on ... |
| Sep 20, 2010 | Cost drives U.S. health system dissatisfaction (Morning Read) | J&J consumer exec retiring. Colleen Goggins, worldwide chairwoman of the Johnson & Johnson Consumer Group for more than a decade, is retiring March 1 after nearly 30 years with the healthcare giant now under fire for a series of rec... |
| Aug 23, 2010 | Angel tax credit bill bad policy? (Morning Read) | Highlights of the important and interesting in the world of healthcare:
Nothing angelic about tax credit bill. What angel investor would shun a 25 percent tax credit for investing in companies that have received Small Business Innovation Re... |
| Jul 20, 2010 | How do doctors use their smartphones? (Morning Read) | For the needle-phobic: A pain-free vaccine patch made up of 100 “microneedles” could be a welcome drug delivery method for children (and adults) who are afraid of needles. So far it’s only been tested on mice and will take years, at least, ... |
| Jun 2, 2010 | Morning Read: Employers doubt reform will cut costs | 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... |
| Feb 19, 2010 | Will huge premium increases ever stop? MedCity Morning Read, Feb. 19, 2010 | Promoted
Covid-19’s terrible toll on diabetes patients. What can be done?
The public health crisis has undermined the economy and made people with chronic conditions more vulnerable and stressed. Learn more with a new report from Omada Heal... |
| Will huge premium increases ever stop? MedCity Morning Read, Feb. 19, 2010 | Image via Wikipedia
Highlights of the important and the interesting from the world of health care:
Will huge premium increases ever stop? Probably not, but for health-reform advocates, chatter about ever-rising health insurance premiums fig... |
| Nashville’s medical trade center good for economy (Morning Read) | Highlights of the important and interesting in the world of healthcare:
Nashville medical trade center key for economy. Forty-four percent of the people who took a poll by the Nashville Business Journal think their city’s medical trade cent... |
| Prescription drug price reform is a hot topic in presidential race, but candidates fail to grasp nuances | Most of the people running for president say they want to do something about the rising cost of prescription drugs. But most of their proposals probably won’t work because they don’t address the dynamics behind these price increases.
“There... |
| How do doctors use their smartphones? (Morning Read) | Highlights of the important and the interesting from the world of healthcare:
How do doctors use their smartphones? About 6 in 10 doctors use smartphones, mostly in the ways you’d expect–checking e-mail and the web–but some also use smartph... |
| Group purchasing organizations spin cost savings (Morning Read) | Highlights of the important and interesting in the world of healthcare:
Spin, GPOs, spin. Contrary to popular health economic wisdom, the group purchasing organization raises costs for hospitals, according to a study by two respected econom... |
| 5 blog entries you need to read to end National Health IT Week | It’s been a week stuffed with acronyms and insights on how health IT can improve patient safety while making patient medical records more easily accessible. As you wind down from the excitement and stress of National Health IT week chill ou... |
| Investing in innovation: Biomedical? Or something else? (Morning Read) | Current medical news and unique business news for anyone who cares about the healthcare industry.
The Innovation Debate. President Obama’s State of the Union has now triggered deeper debates about innovation. The GE Global Innovation Barome... |
| Federal suit targets Boston Scientific, Guidant (Morning Read) | Current medical news and unique business news for anyone who cares about the healthcare industry.
Federal Guidant suit. Guidant remains the gift that keeps on giving for Boston Scientific. The federal government is suing BSX for knowingly s... |
| Colcrys: the dark side of market exclusivity (Morning Read) | Highlights of the important and interesting in the world of healthcare:
Market exclusivity = bad things. After the FDA approved gout medicine Colcrys, the manufacturer brought a lawsuit seeking to remove any other versions of colchicine fro... |
| Patent cliff means panic time for big pharma (Morning Read) | Current medical news and unique medical news for anyone who cares about the healthcare industry.
Patent cliff in horrifying context. The New York Times this weekend quantified the patent cliff, which this year will jeopardize $50 billion in... |
| Cost drives U.S. health system dissatisfaction (Morning Read) | Highlights of the important and interesting in the world of healthcare:
Cost drives dissatisfaction. The 2010 Health Confidence Survey from the Employee Benefit Research Institute shows an eroding sense of faith in the American health syste... |
| Angel tax credit bill bad policy? (Morning Read) | Highlights of the important and interesting in the world of healthcare:
Nothing angelic about tax credit bill. What angel investor would shun a 25 percent tax credit for investing in companies that have received Small Business Innovation Re... |
| Morning Read: Employers doubt reform will cut costs | Highlights of the important and the interesting from the world of healthcare:
Employers don’t believe reform will cut costs: Cutting runaway spending was employers’ No. 1 goal for health reform, yet 90 percent believe that reform won’t acco... |
| Universal Health biggest in psychiatric services (Morning Read) | Highlights of the important and interesting in the world of healthcare:
Universal Health Services buys rival. Universal Health Services Inc. in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, has acquired rival Psychiatric Solutions Inc. for $3.1 billion, m... |
| Kindler out, biopharma head Read in, at Pfizer (Morning Read) | Highlights of the important and interesting in the world of healthcare:
Pfizer unexpectedly switches CEOs. Jeff Kindler, a lawyer tapped as a fresh face to lead drug maker Pfizer out of its doldrums, is out, after just a little over four ye... |
| Healthcare arrives at SXSW (Morning Read) | Current medical news and unique business news for anyone who cares about the healthcare industry.
Healthcare at SXSW. SXSW is the arts-and-music-and-technology cutting-edge hipster showcase. This year, the medical industry found a place at ... |
