Morning Read: Researchers use 3D printer to create reactionware vessels

A team at the University of Glasgow in Scotland has created reactionware vessels with a […]

A team at the University of Glasgow in Scotland has created reactionware vessels with a commercial 3D printer and open-source CAD software. Professor Lee Cronin says his team has synthesized three drug compounds by changing the design of the reactionware.

If the Affordable Care Act is overturned, hundreds of Medicare policies will be null and void. The health law changed almost every aspect of how Medicare does business. Even the American Medical Association says that it’s hard to imagine the impact of the reform disappearing.

A smartphone attachment for diagnosing oral cancer won the 2012 mHealth Alliance Award. OScan uses high resolution imaging to check the mouth and throat for lesions.

George Rathmann died Sunday at the age of 84. The first CEO of  Amgen managed the development and launch of Epogen which transformed the care of kidney dialysis patients and cancer chemotherapy patients, and made billions in profits.

Create a “life certificate” that would bundle standardized health information and travel with people and grow with them. The Kauffman Task Force on Cost-Effective Health Care Innovation suggests this certificate as well as collecting data from outside the health care system, sharing publicly funded data, and curating data as ways to use big data to improve patient health and cut costs. Experts from Duke Medical Center, the Mayo Clinic, the West Wireless Health Institute, Stanford University and Yale Law School contributed to the report. Download a copy of the report here.

[Image from Nature Chemistry]

Veronica Combs

Veronica is an independent journalist and communications strategist. For more than 10 years, she has covered health and healthcare with a focus on innovation and patient engagement. Most recently she managed strategic partnerships and communications for AIR Louisville, a digital health project focused on asthma. The team recruited 7 employer partners, enrolled 1,100 participants and collected more than 250,000 data points about rescue inhaler use. Veronica has worked for startups for almost 20 years doing everything from launching blogs, newsletters and patient communities to recruiting speakers, moderating panel conversations and developing new products. You can reach her on Twitter @vmcombs.

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