TOP STORIES
Woodford-backed Perceptive Bioscience officially launched today. It’s a new global evergreen bioscience fund focused on everything from seed-stage companies to “mispriced public companies with products in late-stage development.” – Perceptive Bioscience
HIMSS is imminent: Here’s HISTalk’s always reliable guide to HIMSS. – HISTalk
The Hidden Administrative Tasks Draining Small Practices
Small practices play a critical role in healthcare delivery, but they cannot continue to absorb ever-increasing administrative demands without consequences.
LIFE SCIENCES
China’s IMPACT Therapeutics, focused on oncology, landed another $10 million to drive clinical studies and its pipeline. IMPACT is backed by Lilly Asia Ventures and Wuxi AppTec Ventures, among others. – PRNewswire
Europe has approved Bayer’s hemophilia A drug Kovaltry for all age groups. – Reuters
Hospitech Respiration received FDA 510(k) pre-market clearance for its airway management product, AnapnoGuard 100 System1. – Business Wire
Inside an Automated Healthcare Practice: Redesigning Care Around People, Not Paperwork
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.
The bioanalytical testing service BioAgilytix has purchased IPM Biotech, a German contract research laboratory focused on large molecule bioanalysis. – Business Wire
Antibiotic resistance in China: It’s in the water. – Reuters
PAYERS-PROVIDERS
Public redemption for the HPV vaccine? It’s already reduced the virus’ prevalence in teenage girls by almost two-thirds. – The New York Times
TECHNOLOGY
Akili Interactive Labs gets a nice mention in this overview about pharma’s attempts to integrate video games into its treatments. – Financial Times
Here’s how the Apple privacy fight trickles back into healthcare. – The Health Care Blog
POLITICS
Dr. Robert Califf’s slow slog to lead the FDA will get a push this week. Who gets appointed first: FDA chief or an Antonin Scalia replacement on the Supreme Court? – STAT
Why “network adequacy” statutes matter – and here’s how healthcare interests are pushing to change them to make health insurance companies continue to pay for certain levels of medical care. – Forbes
LITTLE BIT EXTRA
Always. Watch. Facebook. Take a look at its “Telecom Infra Project,” which is trying to the redesign telecommunications infrastructure, and take a deeper look at how Facebook is continuing to push virtual reality into the mainstream. – Business Insider and WIRED
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