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You may have heard there’s a little healthcare conference called JP Morgan 2016 happening this week. From now through Thursday, MedCity News will send out a separate newsletter with all of our daily JP Morgan Healthcare Conference coverage. Anyone who subscribes to our daily e-newsletter will get it and it will include some stories our typical morning e-mail will not. So sign up here today (our JPM e-mail will be sent around 9 a.m. Eastern).
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.
LIFE SCIENCES
Shire-Baxalta: Done. – Boston Globe
Sanofi has inked a five-year, $750 million collaboration with Warp Drive Bio to develop oncogenes including RAS, which has one of the highest mutation rates in cancer, and new antibiotics targeting Gram-negative bacteria. The money is as much of a game-changer as are the terms, which provides Warp Drive more freedom to pursue major partnership with other partners. – Pharma Times, FierceBiotech
Novartis has thrown in with Surface Oncology, providing $170 million to develop its cancer immunotherapy pipeline. – FierceBiotech
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.
Sneaky ole Pfizer, which won’t have to bother with those American tax rates much longer, went ahead and raised U.S. prices on more than 100 drugs – including a nearly 10 percent hike for Lyrica. – Reuters
Spain’s Aelix Therapeutics, which is developing immunotherapies against HIV infection, raised $12.7 million lead by Ysios Capital and Johnson & Johnson Development Corp., among others. – PE Hub
BioAtla just landed $45 million from the Global BIO Impact Fund to develop a series of Conditionally Active Biologic antibody therapeutics. – PRNewswire
PAYERS-PROVIDERS
Russian investigators have opened a criminal probe in the case of a patient who died after he was punched in the head by a doctor. This is the video:
TECHNOLOGY
Here’s a massive and handy list of everything Google is working on in 2016 (there’s healthcare in there). – Ars Technica
Check out the HISTalk reader survey. I enjoyed the feedback on reader suggestions. – HISTalk
Remember, when you are building a healthcare company you should not have a doctor on your team. – VentureBeat
POLITICS
Will the ghosts of the past haunt the NIH’s attempts to go big on precision medicine? – STAT
A LITTLE BIT EXTRA
In case you missed it: “The Revenant” won best movie drama while that health IT-hating “Mr. Robot” won for best TV drama at the Golden Globes. All your Golden Globes details here. – New York Times
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