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June 19, 2013 4:49 pm by | 0 Comments

The time has come for those of us loyal Google Reader users to buckle down and start migrating our RSS feeds to a different platform. (If you’re like me, you’ve been putting this off for the past three months.)But in the spirit of onward and upward, here are a few ... Read more
Big data initiative at UPMC breaking down silos, producing new personalized medicine insights

Big data initiative at UPMC breaking down silos, producing new personalized medicine insights

June 19, 2013 11:52 pm by | 0 Comments

Eight months after it kicked off an ambitious $100 million, five year project to create a data warehouse and enterprise analytics initiative for a personalized medicine program, the University of ... Read more
After pesky suitor Royalty goes away, sources say Forest Labs is eying Elan

After pesky suitor Royalty goes away, sources say Forest Labs is eying Elan

June 19, 2013 2:01 pm by | 0 Comments

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Forest Laboratories Inc, the specialty drugmaker that counts investor Carl Icahn as a major shareholder, is among a handful of companies interested in bidding for Irish ... Read more
Watch out ‘dinosaurs’ of healthIT: CareCloud is coming for you and they’re armed with $20M

Watch out ‘dinosaurs’ of healthIT: CareCloud is coming for you and they’re armed with $20M

June 19, 2013 1:02 pm by | 0 Comments

CareCloud has raised $20 million to break the healthcare system out of the Jurassic era. CareCloud offers cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) software. It provides tools for practice management, EHR, ... Read more
Study: Accountable Care Organizations may improve quality and lower costs

Study: Accountable Care Organizations may improve quality and lower costs

June 19, 2013 12:23 pm by | 0 Comments

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Large independent doctor practices that focus on primary care tend to spend less money and are more likely to meet guidelines for Americans on Medicare ... Read more
University looking to seed interdisciplinary projects including healthcare

University looking to seed interdisciplinary projects including healthcare

June 19, 2013 11:42 am by | 0 Comments

ExCITe Center: Cerebral Palsy Physical Therapy with Kinect from Girish Balakrishnan on Vimeo.Do you have an idea for a project that crosses disciplines and involves collaboration between different groups? If ... Read more

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Chemotherapy Management Giving you a hard Time?

Chemotherapy Management Giving you a hard Time?

You transitioned to electronic medical records a few years back and your practice has streamlined. Why then should you go ... Read more

Best Medication Related Apps

Best Medication Related Apps

Mobile technology has evolved to a degree where using the likes of a smartphone and/or a tablet computer is pretty ... Read more

Doctors slow to embrace innovation? Maybe it’s because they own all the risk

Doctors slow to embrace innovation? Maybe it’s because they own all the risk

I recently posted about my upcoming  Healthcare Unbound presentation on why healthcare disruption is happening too slowly and requested some thoughts ... Read more

Novo Nordisk’s diabetes drug patent ruled invalid, door open for generic version

Novo Nordisk’s diabetes drug patent ruled invalid, door open for generic version

June 19, 2013 10:25 am by | 0 Comments

(Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court found the patent on Novo Nordisk's Prandin diabetes drug in combination with metformin to be invalid, paving the way for introduction of a generic ... Read more
GAO: Additional delays could impact Oct. 1 deadline for health insurance exchanges

GAO: Additional delays could impact Oct. 1 deadline for health insurance exchanges

June 19, 2013 10:22 am by | 0 Comments

WASHINGTON, June 19 (Reuters) - New health insurance exchanges being set up by the federal government in more than 30 states under President Barack Obama's 2010 healthcare overhaul could miss ... Read more
Analysts: Another year of slowdown in the growth of healthcare cost signifies a trend

Analysts: Another year of slowdown in the growth of healthcare cost signifies a trend

June 19, 2013 9:54 am by | 0 Comments

The cost of healthcare is still growing, but it’s growing at a rate that Pricewaterhouse Coopers analysts say has slowed and will likely continue to do so.Healthcare organizations still seem ... Read more
Study: Medication misuse is driving $200 billion in healthcare costs. What’s being done?

Study: Medication misuse is driving $200 billion in healthcare costs. What’s being done?

June 19, 2013 9:11 am by | 0 Comments

Most of us are aware of that medication adherence is a costly problem, but a new report puts it in alarming context and sheds some light on other factors under ... Read more
Pay-for-delay deals cost nine drugmakers 146M euros in EU fines

Pay-for-delay deals cost nine drugmakers 146M euros in EU fines

June 19, 2013 5:30 am by | 0 Comments

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators fined nine drugmakers a total of 146 million euros ($195.5 million) on Wednesday for blocking the supply of cheaper medicines on the market, with ... Read more
No heart benefit for AstraZeneca, Bristol diabetes drug in SAVOR trial

No heart benefit for AstraZeneca, Bristol diabetes drug in SAVOR trial

June 19, 2013 2:15 am by | 0 Comments

LONDON (Reuters) - AstraZeneca and Bristol-Myers Squibb's diabetes drug Onglyza failed to reduce heart risks in a large clinical study.The companies, which jointly sell several diabetes drugs, said on Wednesday ... Read more
Long-term investors: More reward than risk on horizon for hospital stocks

Long-term investors: More reward than risk on horizon for hospital stocks

June 19, 2013 1:05 am by | 0 Comments

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Shares of U.S. hospital operators have been on a tear this year, on average posting triple the gains of the broader stock market, as investors tallied up ... Read more
Smartphone thermometer, concussion detector among finalists in NYC medtech innovation contest

Smartphone thermometer, concussion detector among finalists in NYC medtech innovation contest

June 18, 2013 8:32 pm by | 0 Comments

A medication adherence app for families, a social network for recovering alcoholics and a mobile health diagnostic that claims to diagnose concussions based on eye movements. In addition to contributing ... Read more
Investor-backed thinktank calls for changes to drug funding and approval

Investor-backed thinktank calls for changes to drug funding and approval

June 18, 2013 7:02 pm by | 0 Comments

LONDON (Reuters) - Pharmaceutical companies need to boost the benefits of drug research by working with regulators and healthcare providers to overhaul the way medicines are approved and paid for, ... Read more
40,000 health-related apps and no easy way to know which ones work

40,000 health-related apps and no easy way to know which ones work

June 18, 2013 5:27 pm by | 0 Comments

Christine Porter is hooked on the My Fitness Pal app. In October, after deciding to lose 50 pounds, Porter started typing in everything she eats, drinks and any exercise she ... Read more