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For all that we’ve endured in the last few years, it is pretty amazing to listen to presidential candidates fight over who is more Obamacare than the other. Bernie Sanders said he wrote some of the Affordable Care Act, Hillary Clinton says he wants to derail it and around and around they went during last night’s Democratic debate.
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.
There was some meat in this discussion: Sanders released his own healthcare reform plan which seems to increase costs for both the middle class and richest Americans. How the Democratic presidential nominee looks at Obamacare (dramatically or incrementally change it) will have a major impact on policy in the next year. – Washington Post, Business Insider, The Health Care Blog, The Hill, The New York Times
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LIFE SCIENCES
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.
Infectious disease company Centauri Therapeutics has acquired the Alphamer immuno-therapeutics platform technology and raised a fresh round of capital to develop treatments against anti-microbial resistant pathogens. – Business Wire
The FDA has accepted for Priority Review the supplemental New Drug Application for Eisai’s lenvatinib to treat patients with unresectable advanced or metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) in combination with everolimus. – PR Newswire
PAYERS-PROVIDERS
We really, really are going to try and re-analyze resident work hours. Here’s a plan that won’t work. – KevinMD
ZDoggMD is out with a new one: “I Can’t Feel My Face.” You should listen to the whole thing, but here are some of the zippier lines:
I could just go bankrupt
From just one MRI test
I can’t feel my face
My tongue won’t move
Amy I strokin’?
Am I strokin’?
I feel a little icky about this one because – though not his intent – some will take the song to mean ZDogg is mocking stroke patients rather than skewering the medical establishment. – GruntDoc
TECHNOLOGY
Diagnostics company LifeWatch has received FDA clearance for its heartbeat monitor LifeWatch Mobile Cardiac Telemetry (MCT) Patch. – Business Wire
China’s massive search engine Baidu is in trouble with the country’s technology regulators for, among other things, false medical claims. – Financial Times
“CES 2016: The largest collection of insecure devices in the world.” Remember: each one will try to access a hospital network soon! – VentureBeat
Malaysian virtual medical appointments app BookDoc closed a seven-figure seed round with investors including a member of the Brunei royal family. – DealStreetAsia
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