Calculating the return on investment of expensive drugs and surgeries can mean good news for patients. A recent conversation among decision makers at big insurance companies also showed that payers aren’t the heartless bureaucrats they are often made out to be.Leaders from UnitedHealth Group, Blue Cross Blue Shield Minnesota and ... Read more
If you’re a healthcare entrepreneur, it probably doesn’t get much better than getting encouragement from Eric Topol. It’s a bit like a celebrity endorsement. Suffice it to say, Clinton Phillips, ...
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In a new study, people with high blood pressure who could communicate with their pharmacists online had better blood pressure control a year after that ...
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The Department of Health and Human Services marked a milestone this week, announcing more than 50 percent of eligible providers have adopted or used electronic health records — a goal ...
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Now that next-generation DNA sequencing is fast enough, cheap enough and commercially available, the next challenging for innovators is finding ways to effectively apply it to everyday medicine outside of ...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Merck & Co's experimental insomnia drug is safe and effective at the lower of two doses studied but not at the higher, a panel of medical experts ...
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The most significant advantage of having cloud based Electronic Medical Records is low-cost.Research has suggested that using cloud-based solutions can ... Read more
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - More than one quarter of people being treated for non-melanoma skin cancer in their doctor's office reported some type of complication after surgery, in a ...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Little known biotechnology company Merrimack Pharmaceuticals Inc has quietly built a large pipeline of experimental cancer treatments that it aims to deliver at a fraction of ...
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German software company SAP is looking to recruit people with autism as programmers and product testers, drawing on skills that can include a close attention to detail ...
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At one point during my trip to FutureMed earlier this year, I found myself seated next to a young man — noticeably younger than many of the entrepreneurs and doctors-in-training ...
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Scanadu, one of the most high profile participants vying for the $10 million Qualcomm Tricorder X PRIZE, today lifted the veil on the design of its medical scanner via an ...
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(Reuters) - Oncolytics Biotech Inc said preliminary data from a mid-stage trial showed that its cancer drug, Reolysin, met the main goal of reducing the size of tumors in patients ...
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LONDON (Reuters) - For a pathogen with such a short history, the mysterious new virus killing people in the Middle East and Europe has already had an amazing array of ...
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(Reuters) - Pfizer Inc said on Wednesday it will spin off its majority stake in animal health business Zoetis Inc to shareholders by allowing them to swap Pfizer stock for ...
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It’s notoriously difficult to secure funding for the pre-clinical stage of drug development. Risk averse investors don’t want to take a chance on research where there’s a high risk of ...
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LONDON, May 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. government has signed an antibiotics development deal worth up to $200 million with GlaxoSmithKline to tackle the dual threats of drug resistance and ...
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