Henry Ford Health System Innovations is partnering with Walgreens on a challenge that is looking for new mobile apps that spur healthy behavior and improve disease management. The partnership represents both increased efforts to engage with patients through means of digital health and the growing influence of retail pharmacies in the healthcare space. The program, […]
One of Michigan’s largest HMOs has joined the Michigan Health Information Network to share its data. Molina Healthcare of Michigan, a subsidiary of California-based Molina Healthcare, said it will join the network with its 244,000 statewide members in what is the first information sharing effort for Molina in Michigan. Data will include admissions, discharges and transfer notifications. As part of the […]
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A Michigan startup is using 3D printing technology to help surgeons reconstruct skeletal defects – minimizing the need for bone grafts to fill areas with significant missing bone. Tissue Regeneration Systems is developing porous, bioresorbable scaffolding that can replace itself with natural bone, leaving no residual implanted device. Instead of requiring metal plates and screws, the material is computer […]
When Pennsylvania got the Obama administration’s sign-off on its Medicaid expansion plans last week, it became the ninth state with a Republican governor to agree to broaden coverage for low-income residents – a key component of Obama’s healthcare reform law. Getting to that point, though, wasn’t easy. The Obama administration has made itself open to […]
Investors are looking more keenly at Midwest healthcare startups – cash invested has doubled this year over last, according to a recent report. Some $777 million was invested across 139 companies for just the first half of 2014, according to the BioEnterprise Midwest Healthcare Venture Investment Report. By comparison, $758 million across 213 companies was raised for the totality […]
Clinical trials recruiting company Curelauncher is ramping up its sales and marketing team to work with more of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies. The Michigan-based startup says it already has two of the Big 5 as customers. By year’s end, it wants to double that number – and is looking at the likes of Novartis, […]
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.
Delayed by state lawmakers, Michigan did not expand Medicaid until the day after the federal online insurance exchange closed March 31 – a move advocates feared would undermine signups. Turns out, enrollment is exceeding expectations, which has pleased officials who seek to make the state among the first in the nation to add a heavy […]
The Affordable Care Act is expected to save Michigan hundreds of millions of dollars annually in mental health costs, but there’s a growing dispute over whether the money should be immediately reinvested in mental health programs, or banked. As part of major changes associated with the health care overhaul, also known as Obamacare, Michigan opened […]
At a recent conference in Minneapolis, a panel discussing where the best medtech startup opportunities are located gave an answer sure to please the hometown crowd: the Midwest was singled out as a great location for starting new firms. “We love the Midwest,” said Jan Garfinkle, founder and managing director of Arboretum Ventures, a venture […]
Cancer drug developer ProNAi Therapeutics, which developed a nucleic acid-based DNA-interference technology to cause cancer cell death, has added nine new investors in an oversubscribed Series D round. The latest fundraise will help support Phase 2 clinical trials for its recurrent non-Hodgkin lymphoma treatment, follicular lymphoma, Richter’s transformation and large B-cell lymphoma, according to a […]
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A new study shows more Michigan residents are depressed than those in other states, and mental health care workers are using telephone and video conferencing to reach out to patients in areas without psychiatric services. Already overburdened with high case loads, mental health professionals statewide are expecting increased demand under the federal Affordable Care Act, […]
Nationally, Republican party leaders say their number one campaign issue for the midterm elections is opposition to Obamacare. But at the same time, a growing number of Republican states are now embracing a major provision of the law – expanding Medicaid, the government-funded health benefit program for the poor. The Supreme Court made doing that […]
Raili Kerppola had a thriving career in the pharmaceutical industry when she was diagnosed with stage four adrenal cancer in 2011. While seeking treatment at the University of Michigan, she began working with an endocrinologist named Dr. Gary Hammer and her husband, a professor of biological chemistry at UM, on researching and discovering new treatments […]
Fourteen veterans will endure a different kind of bootcamp this week: one that helps prepare them for jobs in the medtech industry. The AdvaMed Medical Technology Veterans Program Bootcamp kicked off yesterday and runs through Sept. 24 in Washington, D.C. The program helps selected veterans apply skills built on the battlefield to civilian job applications, […]
Watch out coastlines–the Midwest and South are making big plays for the medtech economy. Qmed‘s top three medtech states won’t surprise you–California, Massachusetts, Minnesota. But No. 4 might. Indiana is officially a top medtech destination, with Orthopedics Capital of the World, Warsaw, Ind., driving its ranking and its $13.8 billion economy. The other states that […]