TALLAHASSEE - Dealing with issues that affect the health care of millions of poor and uninsured residents, Florida leaders in 2013 could move forward with a long-awaited overhaul of the Medicaid system and likely will decide how to carry out the federa...
1. ICD-10 Transition October 1, 2014 seems like a very long time from now. While predominantly impacting hospitals and payers, the impact of the change to a new classification scheme will be significant. The shift to ICD-10 will require provider organizations to allocate IT personnel and other management resources towards that goal. This will […]
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.
As smokers compile their New Year’s resolutions in the run up to 2013, a new public service message from the UK’s Department of Health is piling on the pressure with a new video that went live today. As a young man lights up for a peaceful cigarette outside away from the public gaze, a tumor […]
The road from physician to physician-entrepreneur has spanned nearly two decades for podiatrist Dr. Todd O’Brien. But he’s now applying his life’s work to an updated and improved digital diagnostic device to help doctors — and eventually patients — check for early signs of nerve damage caused by diabetes. O’Brien got his first taste of […]
A nanotechnology startup led by Elisabet de los Pinos dubbed a “Nanotrepreneur” by Time Magazine has raised more than $3.2 million in the second tranche of its series A round. Its therapeutic is being applied to a wide range of tumors but its research has produced encouraging results treating ovarian tumors, according to an emailed […]
Reports circulated earlier this week that AstraZeneca would announce a collaboration with CytImmune to develop a new therapy that uses gold nanoparticles as a delivery method for cancer drugs. But AstraZeneca certainly isn’t the only one taking notice of the potential behind gold nanoparticles, whose physical and chemical properties make them especially appealing for medical […]
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.
With the Affordable Care Act now the law of the land, a value-based healthcare regime where hospitals are rewarded for keeping patients well, for being efficient and cost conscious is the path we are on. Instead of growing nostalgic for an easier time — never a recipe for success — hospitals need to review their […]
Washington has so far distributed around $45 million in Consumer Assistance Program grants to 36 states. Today, at least 22 states have created offices to help consumers deal with contested health insurance claims.
As contract research organization consolidation continues, one of the oldest CROs, Parexel, has made a deal to shore up its informatics business, boosting its ability to provide regulatory software services to its biopharmaceutiucal clientele. Boston-based Parexel‘s (NASDAQ: PRXL) acquisition of Horsham, Pennsylvania-based Liquent from private equity firm Marlin Equity Partners gives it a flagship software […]
A remote heart monitor to detect irregular heart rhythms that secured 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration could lower healthcare costs by reducing the time patients spend in the hospital when they are diverted to cardiac care and away from the emergency room or orthopedics surgery. The device sticks to the skin […]
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
Health-related Internet searches may be on the rise, but not enough to find a spot on Google’s annual list of most popular searches worldwide. The only things even remotely related to healthcare that appeared on the global trends list of Google Zeitgeist 2012 were Hurricane Sandy, the most-searched event of the year, and presidential debate, […]
A lively conversation has ensued over at the Medical Devices LinkedIn group in response to a member who posed the question: What are the three mistakes startups make that could act as advice for the industry moving forward? One user tallied up the responses and found that most of the mistakes and pieces of advice […]
Patient simulators have been a growing trend to teach vital skills from interviewing patients to get a thorough medical history and to identify and improve upon weaknesses before medical students get anywhere patients. A health It company has developed an interactive simulator for medical school students and has raised $2 million as it prepares to […]
Rather than focusing on isolated molecular targets to develop new drugs, a growing California R&D company is helping a noteworthy lineup of Big Pharma clients identify therapeutic targets by tracking biochemical processes that cause disease. KineMed Inc. is currently raising $5 million in equity, debt and other securities, as disclosed in a regulatory filing last […]
Big medtech companies have been criticized for their diminishing innovation record, especially from this blog. One of the few innovation strengths that large companies should exhibit is manufacturing. And, I’m not referring to advanced manufacturing in itself, but the synergy between manufacturing and R&D. In the mid-nineties, I had the pleasure to experience Cordis Corporation (pre- […]