Devices & Diagnostics

Your ultimate Doc Fix roundup, genetic aspect to flu response explored (Morning Read)

Don't pop the champagne corks yet. Here's some Doc Fix analysis that will annoy you - or not surprise you. Also, all the "biotech bubble" talk got picked up by average investors. That didn't turn out so well. Read more in today's Morning Read.

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

Don’t pop the champagne corks yet. Here’s some Doc Fix analysis that will annoy you – or not surprise you.

  • Forbes: “The doc fix doesn’t fix much, and what it does repair likely will add hundreds of billions of dollars to the debt in coming years.”
  • Reuters: “Stop-gap Medicare ‘doc-fix’ will cost seniors”
  • The Hill: Meet the 37 representatives who voted against the Doc Fix
  • Washington Post: “How did the polarized parties do it?”
  • Salon: “What the “doc fix” drama reveals about Washington”

Could a single gene determine who gets seriously ill with the flu?

Talk of a biotech bubble got into the wild – and bad things happened.

LIFE SCIENCE

GSK increases its presence in San Diego.

Stryker gets an FDA OK for its spinal repair Lite Plate System.

Genentech plans to invest more than $125 million in a Hillsboro, Oregon expansion, bringing new jobs to the area.

Medtronic has closed a buyout of hearing aid maker Sophono for an undisclosed amount and plans to integrate it into its ear, nose & throat business.

Nanotechnology in medical devices will be worth $8.5B by 2019.

The nanotechnology-based medical devices market witnessed healthy growth during the last decade primarily attributed to the rising aging population and increasing government support, globally.

PAYERS-PROVIDERS

The redemption of a California blue.

UC Davis will use $10 million to build a schizophrenia research center.

The CEO of Presence Health will retire at year’s end.

Physicians Practice is providing tips for 10 online healthcare resources that should be recommended for patients.

A former CFO with Geisinger Health System has joined Penn State Hershey Medical Center as CFO.

TECH

Ohio health IT entrepreneur Tom Reid launched a startup called SEED Protocol to store and secure users personal health records.

An accelerator for the Internet of Things has launched in Grand Rapids, Michigan. StartGarden, an early stage venture capital firmis behind Seamless It will be open to early stage hardware companies and is supported by regional companies including Steelcase, Amway, Meijer, Faurecia, Spectrum Health and Priority Health.

Telemedicine for the 55+ crowd — subscription based service called Senior Wireless.

Some angst over the future of radiological informatics innovation.

POLITICS

Britain’s health service is under “significant strain” with deficits looming.

Good news: The Ebola virus isn’t accelerating because of very few mutations in West Africa, according to the National Institutes of Health study in Science.

A LITTLE EXTRA

Instapaper, the reader app owned by betaworks, launched an update to the app that brings speed reading to the forefront.

With Instapaper 6.2, users will gain access to a feature called Speed Reader, which highlights a single word at a time for a more focused and efficient reading experience. The update also brings with it faster saving of articles from mobile and Instant Sync, which is a faster and more reliable way of sending articles to your Instapaper app on iOS.

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