News and notes from the day in MedCity, Ohio:
Akron now has a biomedical district, according to the Akron Beacon Journal. With a few minor changes, city council approved legislation Monday that outlined the district — changing it from concept to reality — and made several zoning changes within the area that encompasses the city’s three downtown hospitals and the University of Akron.
Diagnostic Hybrids, the Athens company purchased last week by Quidel Corp. of San Diego, has received emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for using its D3 Ultra 2009 H1N1 Influenza A Virus ID Kit for individuals with signs and symptoms of influenza, and who previously tested positive for the influenza A virus, according to a BusinessWire release.
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.
Miami Valley Hospital and Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine are partnering to create a neuroscience institute to help patients with a variety of neurological disorders and attract funding for advanced biomedical research, with details to come Wednesday at a news conference that will include Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, the Dayton Business Journal reported.
Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy in Rootstown is advertising for a medical college dean, according to Physicians Jobs Plus.
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati Interstitial Lung Disease Center have received a $714,000 grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to study ways interstitial lung disease — the often fatal disease that affects the tissues of the lungs — first appears in certain patient groups with autoimmune diseases, and how to more efficiently diagnose and treat it, according to a university release.
Plain Dealer editors and reporters recently toured University Hospitals Case Medical Center’s 375,000-square-foot, 120-bed cancer hospital that’s going up at the corner of Euclid Avenue and Cornell Drive, according to the Cleveland newspaper. Although the structure was topped out some months ago, much work remains to be done on the interior. The $250 million building is scheduled to open in spring 2011.
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.
Cleveland real estate developer Forest City Enterprises Inc. has agreed to sell a 49% interest in seven life science buildings at the University Park mixed-use project in Cambridge, Mass., to Toledo-based Health Care REIT Inc., according to Crain’s Cleveland Business.
Cleveland medical negligence law firm Spangenberg, Shibley & Liber has won a substantial settlement for the widow and children of a NASA Glenn engineer who died from a heart attack likely caused by going off his anti-blood clotting medications before having a colonoscopy, according to a PRWeb release.
Click4Care, the Powell company that provides health care management software for payors, said its care management system now can fully accommodate ICD-10 data code sets and extract information from ICD-10-coded claims data, eliminating onerous and time-consuming conversion, according to a BusinessWire release.
Terry Wiegel, director of rehabilitative services at Children’s Medical Center of Dayton, has been awarded the 2010 Ohio Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s Elwood Chaney Outstanding Clinician Award, which recognizes significant accomplishments in the advancement of clinical practice and service in speech-language pathology and/or audiology, according to a medical center release.
