U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today said that America’s patients need a “breakthrough” in the medical device industry after touring Smith & Nephew, a medical device company in Memphis, Tennessee.
“We hear a lot about the negative effects of the medical device tax, but what I’m hearing more from the medical device community is about the negative effects of regulatory burdens on doctors and patients,” said Alexander, chairman of the Senate health committee. “We’ve had a
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Archives for 2015
Empower Patients: Give Them Better Data!
Editor's Note: William Rusnak, MD (@RusnakMD) is a resident radiologist, writer, and financial investor. He writes about topics such as healthcare technology, biotechnology, business, and entrepreneurship.
Imagine that you are diagnosed with serious illness. Wait. Maybe that is a little strong. Sadly, however, there really is no good way to start this conversation. In any case, how do you perform your medical research? If you're like most people -- 77% to be specific -- you run straight to Dr.
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Rock Health: 18 Consumer Adoption Trends in Digital Health
This week, Rock Health, a full-service venture fund dedicated to digital health released the findings from their national survey on the consumer adoption trends in digital health. The report, "Digital Health Consumer Adoption: 2015" produced by Teresa Wang and Malay Gandhi with help from Kati Dahl surveyed 4,000 consumers on their attitudes attitudes towards data privacy and sharing within the healthcare ecosystem.
The report identifies six overarching categories of digital health that
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StartUp Health:10 Trends Driving the Future of Aging Care
According to the American Medical Student Association, the population of individuals over the age of 65 will increase by 73 percent between 2010 and 2030, meaning 1 in 5 Americans will be a senior citizen. For the next 20 years, about 3 million baby boomers will hit retirement age yearly.
With the tsunami wave of boomers getting older and multiple chronic conditions is set to place a tremendous financial burden on the US healthcare system, especially as it related to Medicare. Census Bureau
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Hoarding Your DNA Data Could Stifle Extending Human Life
Google Ventures’s Bill Maris is determined to extend human life expectancy; however, public fears over privacy and the security of DNA data could be a major roadblock, Bloomberg reports. “If we each keep our genetic information secret, then we’re all going to die,” said Bill Maris, managing partner at Google Ventures. Starting this year, the firm has placed a greater focus on investing in life science companies focused on slow aging, reverse disease and extending life. A key portion of these
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QuadraMed Scoops Up NextGen Healthcare’s Hospital Solutions Division
Quality Systems, Inc. has sold the Hospital Solutions Division of its NextGen Healthcare subsidiary to QuadraMed Affinity Corporation (“QuadraMed”), which is part of the Harris Operating Group of Constellation Software Inc. for an undisclosed sum. The Hospital Solutions Division of NextGen is a provider of an integrated operations suite for critical access and rural hospitals. QuadraMed provides healthcare software and services primarily used in hospitals, health systems and related facilities
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UCSF, Cisco to Develop Interoperability Platform for Sharing Health Data
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Cisco are teaming up for a new initiative to jointly develop an interoperability-focused platform that will enable health systems, providers and app vendors to share and integrate health data from multiple sources. That platform will make pertinent patient information accessible when and where it’s needed for care through a highly secure process.
Health interoperability – defined as the ability of different devices, IT systems and
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Cleveland Clinic: Top 10 Medical Innovations of the Past 10 Years
Each year, at the close of its annual Medical Innovations Summit, Cleveland Clinic predicts the Top 10 Medical Innovations for the coming year. With the annual list turning 10 years old this year, an advisory panel of Cleveland Clinic has compiled a "throwback" Top 10, a listing of the top medical innovations of the past 10 years. Taking a look back at the list reveals that many of the previous medical innovations become transformative.
In the spirit of innovation, here are the Top 10
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WEDI Launches Genomic Data Exchange Workgroup
The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), a nonprofit authority on the use of health IT to create efficiencies in healthcare information exchange, announced the development of its newest Workgroup focused on Genomic Data Exchange. The goal of the workgroup is to further evaluate and create a common industry vision and roadmap on how to incorporate genomic data into the American healthcare system. Katherine Johansen Taber, Ph.D., director of the American Medical
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Michigan Launches Nation’s First Cloud-Based Medicaid System
Michigan residents will benefit from improved health care delivery and reduced costs through Medicaid Management Information System technology, a first in the nation programs that includes a partnership with another state.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has worked with the State of Illinois, the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget, and CNSI to recently launch the second phase of the nation’s first completely automated real-time and cloud-enabled
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