Backers of the Ohio Third Frontier are mounting a campaign to market the state’s biggest-ever economic development program to voters who will be asked to renew and expand the program in May.

Bloom Health Corp., a Minneapolis-based start-up that advises companies, employees and consumers on health care issues, is seeking a total of $5 million through the sale of equity and warrants and/or options, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The agreement means that people who hold insurance from Medical Mutual of Ohio, the state’s largest insurer, will be able to continue obtaining service at Premier-owned health centers.

Health care CIO Dr. John Halamka outlines his New Year’s resolutions, which includes overcoming the fact that many clinicians do not want an electronic health records and “want to be implemented last in any rollout.”

If you’re worth more than $3.5 million, the time to die is apparently 2010. The estate tax is due to expire Jan. 1, 2010, and go back into effect on that date in 2011.

Cardinal Health is thinking about selling some CareFusion stock, sending the California spinoff’s stock down on Wednesday.

A major study published in the most recent issue of Journal of the American Medical Association or JAMA, criticized the FDA for using shoddy, incomplete research to approve high-risk heart devices.

Live Web chats are part of an interactive media tool set that is getting out the message of Akron Children’s Hospital, boosting its profile as a pediatric expert and leading to more specialized surgeries for patients who come from as far away as California.

MAX Endoscopy Inc. in Macedonia, Ohio, has received a $250,000 investment commitment from JumpStart Inc., the venture development organization in Cleveland. MAX Endoscopy will use the money to formalize sales and marketing efforts for its fiber-optic technology that is used with endoscopes to treat hemorrhoids.

Conflicting reports show that higher hospital costs may or may not result in better outcomes for patients. Sometimes, cost depends on the kinds of patients a hospital services. Sometimes it all depends on how data is construed and interpreted.