Cincinnati’s HealthBridge gets $14M from feds for health IT
Nonprofit health information exchange HealthBridge has received $13.8 million in federal funding to help area health providers better utilize information technology.
Ohio gets $1M from feds to fight health insurance premium hikes
Ohio is one of 45 states to receive a $1 million federal grant designed to improve regulatory oversight of health insurance premium hikes. The funding, part of this year’s controversial health reform package, will enable state regulators to hire more people to review health insurers’ proposed rate increases. State regulators have the authority to review […]
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.
Ohio Gov. Strickland goes after illegal prescription drug business
Updated 3:16 p.m. Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland signed an executive order Friday morning creating the Ohio Prescription Drug Task Force–a group that will include doctors and pharmacists from which he hopes to begin getting answers in six weeks on how to manage the state’s growing problem. The order expands the state’s role and establishes a […]
Night Read (Ohio): Fluence Therapeutics opens in Akron
News and notes from the day in MedCity, Ohio: University Hospitals Case Medical Center’s first spinoff company Fluence Therapeutics Inc. recently opened in the downtown Akron Global Business Accelerator on South Main Street, the Akron Beacon Journal reported. The start-up comes from more than 20 years of research on a psoriasis treatment known as photodynamic […]
Ohio gets $19M in federal funds for health care job training
Four Ohio organizations will receive a total of $19 million in federal funding to train workers for jobs in the health care industry. The funding comes from last year's federal stimulus act and will be distributed by the U.S. Department of Labor.
New tax on medical device manufacturers could force Invacare to ship out jobs — MedCity Evening Read, Dec. 22, 2009
Home health care equipment maker Invacare Corp. could send jobs abroad if a new tax on medical device manufacturers in the U.S. Senate's health insurance reform bill is implemented.
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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.
Summa Health System to help staff Giant Eagle store clinics — MedCity Evening Read, Dec. 21, 2009
Northeast Ohio's largest grocery store chain -- Giant Eagle of Pittsburgh, Penn. -- is teaming up with Akron's biggest health system -- Summa Health System -- to operate walk-in clinics inside its supermarkets in Wadsworth and on Kent Road in Stow. Giant Eagle also confirmed it has a deal with University Hospitals to staff retail clinics in its Cleveland-area stores.
Case Western Reserve, UH Case Medical Center part of consortium using $16 million to study anemia in the elderly — MedCity Evening Read, Dec. 16, 2009
Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Case Medical Center will participate in a consortium of national experts investigating why unexplained anemia is common in older adults. The consortium, called the Partnership for Anemia: Clinical and Translational Trials in the Elderly, is the result of a $16 million grant awarded by the National Institute on Aging.
Senate Finance Committee vote scheduled for Tuesday – MedCity Morning Read, Oct. 9, 2009
The Senate Finance Committee will vote Tuesday on its $829 billion health-care reform bill, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday.
2 biotech-focused projects in Ohio receive a total of $6.5 million in federal funds
STERIS Corp. in Mentor and Sherwin-Williams Co. in Cleveland will receive funding from the Defense Department for research on military-related biological technologies.
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Sherrod Brown gets an earful at health insurance reform meeting; announces $14 million in biomedical grants
Sen. Sherrod Brown heard from Ohioans who are having trouble paying their health care insurance at a contentious town hall-style meeting on health insurance reform Tuesday morning at the University of Cincinnati. On Friday, Brown announced $14 million in federal stimulus money for Ohio biomedical research.
Congressional health committee gets reform bill down to $611 billion. Could Medicare reform add billions? — MedCity Morning Read, July 3, 2009
Democratic leaders of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee unveiled their second health care reform bill on Thursday. Cost? $611 billion over 10 years. Coverage? 97 percent of Americans, though that claim is being debated by Republicans.
For some, health care reform is all about insurance — MedCity morning read, June 3, 2009
President Barack Obama on Tuesday repeated his support for a government-supported health insurance plan, acknowledging that such a plan would sharply reduce Republican support for overhauling the nation's health care system. Meanwhile, insurers say they're in for the overhaul, but are they in for small businesses, too?
Sherrod Brown hits Clevelanders where they live… health care reform
Health care reform starts with a reform of the health insurance market, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown told a City Club of Cleveland audience on Wednesday. Last week, the Avon, Ohio, Democrat introduced a Senate resolution signed by 27 of his colleagues "calling for inclusion of a federally backed health insurance option that would decrease cost and increase quality of affordable care," he said.
Budget bill has $3.7 million in health care, research funds for Ohio
The $410 billion federal budget bill for fiscal 2009 -- which Pres. Barack Obama signed today, though he considers the bill imperfect -- includes $3.7 million in health care and research funding for Ohio, according to U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown.