The Morning Read provides a 24-hour wrap up of everything else healthcare’s innovators need to know about the business of medicine (and beyond). The author of The Read published it but all full-time MedCity News journalists contribute to its content.
TOP STORIES
Hopefully you read our take on the New York Times’ wacky cell phone cancer article. But literally everyone is crushing that article: from Popular Mechanics, The Verge, Discover, Respectful Insolence and Wired.
When Investment Rhymes with Canada
Canada has a proud history of achievement in the areas of science and technology, and the field of biomanufacturing and life sciences is no exception.
This is why, btw, you don’t pub a science article in the fucking STYLE section, especially when it’s written by a tech journalist.
— Elizabeth Lopatto (@mslopatto) March 18, 2015
You have to wonder whether The Times will address it.
The Epic-CommonWell Health Alliance beef (can with have “beefs” in healthcare?) is getting snippy, entertaining and attracting all the big players.
Judy, Judy, Judy. Can’t afford 1.4M? Puh-leese! @athenahealth will for you. Join @CommonWell and lets connect. — Jonathan Bush (@Jonathan_Bush) March 18, 2015
.@Jonathan_Bush “This should cover it. If not, we’ll pay 1/2” – NLP @athenahealth @CommonWell pic.twitter.com/W2VRM4seJV — Cerner (@Cerner) March 18, 2015
LIFE SCIENCE
A big move by Index Ventures and Johnson & Johnson: XO1 joins the J&J portfolio.
Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Lamberto Andreotti’s final CEO paycheck: $27 million.
MeMed’s infection blood test gets a big boost through new research published Wednesday.
$17,674.42 – the amount Massachusetts pays per life science job (give or take a few cents)
Catalent tightens up the company to do better product launches.
PAYERS-PROVIDERS
What one researcher found when she tracked Oregon’s Medicaid lottery: “Researchers found, for example, that Medicaid increased health care use and reduced rates of depression, despite often-heard claims that Medicaid coverage was worthless. Medicaid also increased visits to the emergency room — notwithstanding many policymakers’ predictions to the contrary. ”
Blue Cross Blue Shield of California losing its tax-exempt status “sends a very, very strong message to large nonprofits to be sure that you’re functioning as a nonprofit, that you’re not shielding assets or revenue from taxation and that you’re generally serving the public good.”
“How To Kill a Doctor” is a scathing critique worth a read.
Doctors can rise above their biases, according to a study done by doctors.
Inside the mock ebola hospital Bill Gates set up at TED
TECH
Silo buster and Avado founder Dave Chase is leaving WebMD. “In play: CEO role, consulting, open source project, documentary, startup, speaking, writing and providing some expertise to healthcare’s transformers…”
The Mayo Clinic drone study is attracting more attention.
Healthfinch has raised $1.5 million.
Social anxiety tool Joyable raised just over $2 million.
HTC has launched the new activity tracker app Fun Fit.
POLITICS
The feds recovered $3.3 billion in healthcare fraud.
Looks like there will be an Obamacare fallback plan after all
U.S. Senators say Anthem is too slow on its hack response.
“In my short experience of five years, I have not seen a single regulatory decision that was fully consistent across regulatory agencies,” Sanofi’s Elias Zerhouni said.
A LITTLE EXTRA
Are the times really changing? “Why it’s a big deal that Google’s chairman was called out dor interrupting a woman.”
[Photo – of New York Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell campus – is from Wikimedia Commons]
