Senate OKs Right to Try legislation as part of FDA User Fee Reauthorization bill
The Senate approved the feel good legislation which was hotly debated at the MedCity CONVERGE conference this week.
The Senate approved the feel good legislation which was hotly debated at the MedCity CONVERGE conference this week.
In cancer care, virtual reality could be enlisted to improve patient therapy and physician education with minimal cost to hospital systems.
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.
Greg Simon, Biden Cancer Initiative President touched on several topics from changing the culture of science, to highlighting some of the collaborations that emerged from the Cancer Moonshot in a fireside chat at MedCity's CONVERGE conference.
“Do any of us have any authority? God no. But we can bring the right people into the room who have the authority and responsibility in their own domains," said Martin Murphy, head of the CEO Roundtable on Cancer.
Tailoring data to the individual — distilling it down from the population level, in other words — is what’s necessary for precision medicine in oncology care, but it’s still a challenge.
Rebecca Kaul, chief innovation officer at MD Anderson Cancer Center and a keynote speaker at MedCity CONVERGE, discussed why innovation is needed in healthcare — particularly in the oncology space.
Jane Holmes Hollingsworth, Militia Hill Ventures cofounder and managing partner, will take part in a panel discussion on investment in cancer therapies at the MedCity CONVERGE conference in Philadelphia July 31-August 1.
In the run-up to the sixth annual MedCity CONVERGE conference, here's an update on some of the progress Startup Showcase alumni have made.
The Philadelphia health IT startup founded by oncology nurses is in expansion mode following the close of a Series B round last fall.
Also, Merck is exploring applications for blockchain and Anil Jain talks about IBM Watson Health's work in healthcare.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
"In my experience, physicians love innovation and hate change," said Dr. Edward Ewen, Christiana Care Health System Director of Clinical Data and Analytics.
Accountable care is supposed to be about paying for value. But six years after passage of the Affordable Care Act heralded the shift away from fee-for-service, Dr. Greg Carroll, corporate clinical leader of GOHealth Urgent Care, has an important question: "Where's the value?"
It’s too soon to tell precisely where advances in the blockchain or costs of genetics testing ultimately lead to when it comes to pushing the medical field further. All of these forces are intertwined, intermingling, and making healthcare in the 21st century more interesting.
There were a diverse set of healthcare startups at CONVERGE this year from medical device startup Inscope Technologies to contextualizing data from social media apps to gain personal insights on health.
“There’s not enough money in the average person’s pocket to take care of the increases in premiums companies would have to charge,” said Dr. Richard Snyder, senior vice president and chief medical officer for Independence Blue Cross.