Wachter: Digital health is now the norm, but it needs work
"In the last five years, we have gone from a primarily analog business to a primarily digital business," Dr. Robert Wachter said at AMIA 2015.
Do statins work? UCSF studying the pharmacogenomics of these widely prescribed drugs.
Statins are a widely prescribed drug to reduce cholesterol, but their efficacy has come under fire as of late. UCSF researchers taking a precision medicine approach to statin use, studying their pharmacogenomics.
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RCM Outsourcing: Balancing Human Expertise & Smart Technology
Greenway Health blends smart technology with human expertise to elevate revenue cycle.
CONVERGE: ResearchKit-based LGBTQ health study recruits thousands
Early next year, UCSF will release a questionnaire meant to create a longitudinal picture of health issues related to LGBTQ communities.
Is diverting ambulances with heart attack patients away from crowded ERs a death sentence?
Heart-attack patients whose ambulances had been diverted to an ER farther away were nearly 10 percent more likely to be dead one year later than those whose ambulances were not diverted.
6 Precision Medicine partnerships reflective of the new Intel Collaborative Cancer Cloud
Much like Intel's new Collaborative Cancer Cloud, several precision medicine partnerships are springing up around the country. Here are six more.
UCSF’s one-size-fits-all precision medicine test for infection
What pathogen is causing a patient's disease? A coalition of University of California researchers, doctors and Silicon Valley companies are working together to create a test that can diagnose whether a severely ill patient has a virus, bacteria, fungus or parasite.
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Enhanced Direct Enrollment: Georgia Access and the Power of Partnership
Across the nation, state-based health insurance exchanges are searching for ways to better serve their communities while making enrollment easier, more personal, and more accessible for everyone.
PRIDE study on LGBTQ health in U.S. began this week
Researchers from University of California San Francisco announced this week the launch of what will be a landmark study to understand the health of people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ) living in the United States. The Population Research in Identity and Disparities for Equality, or PRIDE, Study is meant to understand health […]
Stem cells to transplant in the brain: Stealth UCSF spinout Neurona Therapeutics raises $7.6M
A UCSF spinout is growing neuronal stem cells to transplant into the brain, for potential use in treating epilepsy, spinal cord injury, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease – and investors are listening. Because one thing that differentiates Neurona Therapeutics is that its stem cells turn exclusively into interneuron cells – which are less likely to be tumorigenic than other IPS cells. […]
Irish health IT company Oneview sets big push into U.S. with $7M raise
Oneview Healthcare, a Dublin, Ire.-based health IT software maker focused on patient engagement and clinical workflows, said it recently raised $7 million that will help it expand in the “critical North American” hospital market. The $7 million is the third round of equity for Oneview since January 2013, having raised a total of $20 million, […]
Hill Physicians join Anthem ACO in California in push toward PPOs
Hill Physicians Medical Group, which has 3,800 physician providers, has joined Anthem Blue Cross‘s ACO network in California as part of an effort by both organizations to reduce costs through the increased use of PPOs. Anthem’s ACO specifically targets members with two or more chronic conditions to help them better maintain overall health through care […]
The Power of One: Redefining Healthcare with an AI-Driven Unified Platform
In a landscape where complexity has long been the norm, the power of one lies not just in unification, but in intelligence and automation.
UCSF: Harnessing technology for patient engagement
Patient engagement has shifted rapidly in healthcare over the last five years, and new technological advances are helping to drive the trend even further. At UCSF’s forthcoming, $1.52 billion Mission Bay campus in San Francisco, that will especially be the case, according to Seth Bokser. He is medical director for IT at the UCSF Center […]
Why translational medicine will never be the same
Startup Founder Testimonial: Vitruvian from LaunchPad Central on Vimeo. There have been 2 or 3 courses in my entire education that have changed the way I think. This is one of those. For the past three years the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps has been teaching our nations best scientists how to build a Lean Startup. Close […]
A new source for antibiotics found in… the vagina?
Researchers have found a fertile source for new antibiotics: Vaginal bacteria. It’s a Darwinian world down there, with “good,” antibiotic-producing bacteria present to combat more malevolent microcritters like MRSA. So when plumbing the depths of the microbiome, University of California, San Francisco researchers essentially discovered a new antibiotic. Their findings were published Sept. 11 in Cell. Interestingly, the news stretches […]
Can ’emergency room’ and ‘convenience’ go together? Hospitals try with online booking
Scott Paul knew he needed to head to the emergency room on a recent Sunday after his foot became so painful he couldn’t walk. The one thing that gave him pause was the thought of having to wait several hours next to a bunch of sick people. But his wife, Jeannette, remembered she’d seen Dignity […]
I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum
We’ve pivoted our Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum. We’re changing the order in which we teach the business model canvas and customer development to better-fit therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices. — Over the last three years the Lean LaunchPad class has started to replace the last century’s “how to write a business plan” classes as the foundation for entrepreneurial […]