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MedCity CONVERGE July 9-10 in Philly gathers payers, providers, medtech, pharma, digital health, policymakers & more.

Veronica Combs

Veronica Combs

I am the editor in chief at MedCityNews.com. I started writing and editing in the print world and joined a dotcom right before the 2000 crash. I was at TechRepublic/CNET/BNET for 7 years. Health was more interesting to me than the latest version of Windows, so I left for a startup tracking prescription drug news. A year later, MedTrackAlert was acquired by HealthCentral, so I shifted to audience research. The fun of daily news and interviewing smart people brought me to MedCity News in February 2012.

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Two healthcare innovators join “Super Mayor” and Zappos CEO on Dreamers & Doers list

Two healthcare innovators join “Super Mayor” and Zappos CEO on Dreamers & Doers list

April 29, 2013 12:31 pm by | 0 Comments

Government Technology issues its Top 25 list every year to recognize the “hardest-working and most innovative individuals in the public sector.” Two people working to improve public health and healthcare ... Read more
Fighting the afternoon blahs? Check out these healthcare infographics on Pinterest

Fighting the afternoon blahs? Check out these healthcare infographics on Pinterest

April 26, 2013 2:10 pm by | 0 Comments

Finding it hard to focus on work or counting the minutes until 5? Take a work-related Pinterest break. Paul Sonnier, the founder of the Digital Health group on LinkedIn, has ... Read more
Health Wildcatters looking to support HIT entrepreneurs in the great state of Texas

Health Wildcatters looking to support HIT entrepreneurs in the great state of Texas

April 26, 2013 12:47 pm by | 0 Comments

A Dallas technology accelerator is launching a new program for healthcare startups. Applications for the first class of Health Wildcatters is now open. The accelerator is looking for companies working ... Read more
What does it mean if the architect of the device tax retires?

What does it mean if the architect of the device tax retires?

April 25, 2013 12:29 pm by | 0 Comments

Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) is calling it quits at the end of next year.Brian Johnson at MassDevice examines the opportunity this offers enemies of the device tax.Apparently there are rich ... Read more
Negotiating healthcare bills: 20% off vs. “somebody will pay for it”

Negotiating healthcare bills: 20% off vs. “somebody will pay for it”

April 25, 2013 12:06 pm by | 1 Comments

Didn’t know you have to negotiate your hospital bills? Maybe you are a healthy person who rarely gets medical bills or deals with them when they do come. Two of ... Read more
America is #1 in overall biotech innovation, but policy and stability is the big weak spot

America is #1 in overall biotech innovation, but policy and stability is the big weak spot

April 22, 2013 4:42 pm by | 0 Comments

America is tops in intellectual property protection, but Finland is catching up fast in every other category used to calculate Scientific American’s Worldview Report and Bio-Innovation Scorecard.The report was presented ... Read more
HIMSS map covers everything you ever need to know about HIT projects in America

HIMSS map covers everything you ever need to know about HIT projects in America

April 22, 2013 3:41 pm by | 2 Comments

If you ever wondered, “Where is the closest ACO?” there is a map for that.Wondering if there is any state legislation that your company should be tracking? HIMSS State IT ... Read more
Wow of the Week: Louisville hospital preparing for Thunder babies

Wow of the Week: Louisville hospital preparing for Thunder babies

April 20, 2013 10:21 am by | 0 Comments

Apparently the “biggest fireworks show in North America” — in addition to drawing up to 800,000 people to downtown Louisville – has the power to induce labor.About a dozen years ... Read more
New for-profit company to sell software that powers Indiana’s health info exchange

New for-profit company to sell software that powers Indiana’s health info exchange

April 20, 2013 8:32 am by | 0 Comments

The Indiana Health Information Exchange is spinning off a for-profit company to support its own efforts and bring the benefits of health information exchanges to other states and communities.The Regenstrief ... Read more
Startup uses camera and web site to extend visiting hours for preemies

Startup uses camera and web site to extend visiting hours for preemies

April 19, 2013 11:19 am by | 0 Comments

NICVIEW has brought web cams to the NICU. The Louisville company has a camera system and a web site that lets parents and other family members check in on premature ... Read more
PokitDok makes cash payments eaiser for doctors and patients

PokitDok makes cash payments eaiser for doctors and patients

April 17, 2013 12:40 pm by | 6 Comments

What Castlight Health is to people with employer-provided health insurance, PokitDok is to people with high deductible plans. The new “set your price” service for basic healthcare services may be ... Read more
4 healthcare startups that could help people hurt in the Boston Marathon bombing

4 healthcare startups that could help people hurt in the Boston Marathon bombing

April 17, 2013 7:40 am by | 0 Comments

Many healthcare entrepreneurs start companies for the most altruistic reasons: to help. A family member who had Alzheimer’s motivated Elli Kaplan to found Neurotrack. Jared Heyman built CrowdMed after watching ... Read more
Online community connects Marathon runners with shelter and support after explosions

Online community connects Marathon runners with shelter and support after explosions

April 16, 2013 12:00 am by | 1 Comments

A Twitter hashtag, two Google docs, and several other "how to help" sources sprang up soon after the two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon Monday afternoon. ... Read more
Doctor describes medical tent scene right after explosions at Boston Marathon

Doctor describes medical tent scene right after explosions at Boston Marathon

April 15, 2013 10:59 pm by | 0 Comments

Dr. Sushrut Jangi, a Boston Globe correspondent, was in the medical tent at the end of Boston Marathon course. He described what it was like to go from treating runners ... Read more
Doctors and nurses have figured out LinkedIn, now we need more researchers

Doctors and nurses have figured out LinkedIn, now we need more researchers

April 12, 2013 1:58 pm by | 0 Comments

 Simon Zhang, data analyst and former neurosurgeon, reports that there are now one million doctors and nurses in the US using the social networking site.What are they doing? Looking for ... Read more