Google has been fine tuning its search engine to produce better, more targeted search results in what it refers to as a Knowledge Graph. Facebook has synthesized its users data to illustrate shared interests in social graphs. One company is applying those big data graph concepts to healthcare. Healthcare IT startup Lumiata, formerly known as […]
About a year after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings , dissatisfaction with the relatively low number of mental health records submitted as part of background checks on gun applicants has led the Obama administration to propose a change in the HIPAA law. The change is intended to encourage states to provide more mental health […]
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.
For mobile health to become more mainstream, companies will have to provide tools that add value, save time and get the blessing of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Today, Kinsa said the FDA gave 510(k) clearance to its Smart Thermometer, according to an emailed statement. It’s used with a smartphone to generate readings. The […]
A strong crowdfunding industry will benefit all of us – entrepreneurs raising money, citizens building better communities, domain experts looking for jobs and service providers looking for customers. Based on almost 25 years of experience working in advertising, PR, and publishing business, I have identified these 10 initiatives that will help this happen. These are […]
10. Our broken healthcare system defeats even the most empowered patients Jess Jacobs and Donna Cryer are experts on the healthcare system — professionally and personally. Jacobs has postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, and describes it best in her own words: I have an idiopathic condition. It lies somewhere between the heart, autonomic nervous system, […]
Caught between competing demands of Obamacare, private physician practices face increasing pressure to get rid of any unnecessary operational costs if they are to remain autonomous. Specialists in procedure-driven private practices such as cardiology, orthopedics and dermatology are feeling that pressure, too. Orthopedic surgeon Jay Crawford believes that the business model for these types of […]
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.
New York State has pulled back the curtain on hospital charges. A new database shows what each hospital across the state charges for 1,400 different procedures. The differences can be dramatic: At Bellevue Hospital, the median charge for an uncomplicated birth is $6,330, and at NYU Langone Medical Center next door, the median charge is […]
How big is the potential of big data in healthcare? So enormous that three Ohio medical powerhouses have teamed up, set aside some $21.5 million and called on a noted computational geneticist to lead a venture that will bolster their ability to find meaning from it. Case Western Reserve University is spearheading a new Institute […]
More than three-quarters of some 12,000 people from eight countries said in a new survey that they’d be willing to share health information anonymously to reduce healthcare costs and improve treatments. Market research firm Penn Schoen Berland conducted online surveys in Brazil, China, France, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan and the U.S. this summer on behalf […]
Most providers are facing a steep learning curve to shift from fee-for-service to accountable care that the Affordable Care Act seeks. It will be a complex conversion to be sure, but some institutions such as Geisinger are helping other health systems with the conversion. In a recent webinar, Geisinger Health Plan directors shared some insights […]
Gabby Everett, the site director for BioLabs Pegasus Park, offered a tour of the space and shared some examples of why early-stage life science companies should choose North Texas.
The increasing availability of big data from the likes of CMS to get a better handle on population health patterns is a growing trend in healthcare. Health IT startups such as Social Health Insights and Konnectology are just a couple of examples of that in action. But what could it do to improve understanding for […]
“Value” may be the single most overused term in healthcare in 2013. It can pretty much mean anything, and everyone wants it. No one turns down valuable objects or services and so every stakeholder in healthcare is trying to define what value is in healthcare. Accountable care organizations say value is obtained by slowly replacing […]
Aetna (NYSE: AET) is testing out the patient-centered medical home model with cancer patients at an oncology practice in Philadelphia. Consultants in Medical Oncology and Hematology was the first oncology practice to get recognition from the National Committee for Quality Assurance as a patient-centered medical home. It currently has three offices in the Philadelphia area. […]
As I travel and speak with physician practices and hospital execs about health IT, I often hear questions about how practices can become paperless as they transition from manual to electronic processes. For those of you that have installed EHRs, you know that going digital does not mean that you’ll be paperless and you’ve probably had […]
With the cost of drug development hitting the $5 billion mark and 94 percent of drugs failing at some point in clinical development, pharmaceutical companies have been turning to new tools to help clinical trial design: computers and robots. A couple of Wall Street Journal articles highlight this trend. One notes that in June, the […]