TOP STORIES
The Obama administration is expressing concern about how climate change is affecting health. At Howard University Medical School the president announced that Google, Microsoft and others have committed to help in preparation for the increasingly erratic climate.
Warning of the perils to the planet has gotten the president only so far; polls consistently show the public is skeptical that the steps Obama has taken to curb pollution are worth the cost to the economy. So Obama is aiming to put a spotlight on ways that climate change will have real impacts on the body, like more asthma attacks, allergic reactions, heat-related deaths and injuries from extreme weather.
With the Rise of AI, What IP Disputes in Healthcare Are Likely to Emerge?
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Healthcare should watch how life insurance handles managing using personal data to improve its products. The program sounds very familiar to what health insurance and smaller wellness upstarts have offered. It’s worked overseas for life insurance. But will it change the bottom line in the United States? There will be lessons here.
Press Ganey is going public. It will seek $100 million.
LIFE SCIENCE
U.S. regulators have agreed to review Novo Nordisk’s resubmitted applications for diabetes drugs Tresiba and Ryzodeg.
A Personalized Approach to Medication Nonadherence
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Here’s why the FDA approach to medical device security is a step backward
The IN VIVO blog has been shut down. Here’s the new home.
Good news for ReShape Medical as it develops its obesity balloon device.
The FDA approves Alere’s Strep A diagnostic.
Medical device company Pursuit Vascular has raised more than $5 million in a new equity offering for its ClearGuard antimicrobial hemodialysis device.
The Helio app, developed by Novartis and INVIVO Communications to help COPD patients monitor their condition, was singled out for recognition at the EyeforPharma conference in Philadelphia, winning the most valuable patient initiative or service award category.
PAYERS-PROVIDERS
UnitedHealth’s CEO got $15 million last year – a 23 percent increase due largely to stock awards.
Springfield, Ill.-based Hospital Sisters Health System has announced the appointment of James F. Dover as division president and CEO of the system’s Southern Illinois Division, effective May 26.
An American health worker diagnosed with Ebola is now in good condition.
A Kaufman Hall survey has found that value-based are on the rise in hospitals.
That’s nearly twice as many hospitals compared with the survey response from six months ago. In August 2014, only 22 percent of hospitals that reported 10 percent or more of their revenue stemmed from these types of contracts.
People with a high sense of purpose in life have a lower risk of stroke.
TECH
Here’s a look at the good, the bad and the ugly when it comes to Internet of Things.
Weight Watchers acquired its second health IT company with the letter “W.” Its purchase of Weilos gives it access to an online community of people interested in fitness and weight loss.
Validic inked a deal with Meditech to provide its data aggregation tool to Meditech’s electronic health record system.
HealthTap has added video consults with psychiatrists and psychologists to its concierge service. Among the types of conditions it will off counseling for are stress and anxiety, relationship challenges, depression, trauma and eating disorders.
POLITICS
Medicare Advantage rates for 2016 will increase by 1.25 percent, a reversal from the 0.9 percent cut CMS proposed in February.
We link to these unending stream of Obamacare doomsday scenarios/GOP alternatives because we believe in being dutiful. But there’s a 99 percent chance reading it will be a waste of your time. So, sorry (not sorry).
A LITTLE EXTRA
NASA and IBM’s Bluemix cloud services and sponsors have joined forces to put together a worldwide hackathon. They hope to challenge participants to build apps that help solve issues around space exploration and problems on earth as well.
The ambitious event, called The Space App Challenge, is taking place this weekend simultaneously in 162 countries involving 136 cities and 10,000 participants, who will be attacking a range of problems in categories such as ‘Print Your Own Space Food’, ‘Robots, Robots, Robots’ and ‘Clean Water Mapping.’
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