Author: Peter

Food and Drug Administration is talking to Google about how the search engine could help...identify previously unknown side effects of medications...using search query data to identify adverse drug reactions..

Passive app requires 'no effort on the part of the user'...Feeling down? Your smartphone will most likely know before you or your doctors do, after a recent study showed promise for an mHealth app that detects depression and monitors at-risk populations....

Ellie is a virtual human created.. at the University of Southern California to help patients feel comfortable talking about themselves so they’ll be honest with their doctors...anonymity can help people be more truthful...felt less fearful about self-disclosure, better able to express sadness and more willing to disclose... the less human involvement, the better...

CVS Health, Walgreens, Walmart and Target are among more than a dozen U.S.-based companies forming the 100,000 Opportunities Initiative,...has set a goal to engage at least 100,000 "Opportunity Youth" — 16- to 24-year-olds...by 2018 via apprenticeships, internships, training programs, and part-time and full-time jobs.

Improving access to care is one of the primary mandates of the Affordable Care Act....many health systems are stepping up efforts to offer convenient, fast and lower-cost alternatives to the traditional in-person office visit. One strategy they are adopting is video visits. Patients can use their computers or their smartphones to consult with their primary or specialist physicians...

healthcare industry is infamous for its overuse and misuse of buzzwords and acronyms…arise from the ever-changing regulatory shifts designed to improve quality care and reign in increasing costs…One …commonly misused or misunderstood buzzwords today is "population health management,"…

41 percent of survey respondents are dissatisfied with their current compensation.....nearly half...of healthcare professionals surveyed say they have not received a pay increase in the past year, and another 14 percent are actually making less than they were a year ago….68 percent reporting they would change employers for higher pay.

Charitable drug distributors are improving access to essential medications for low-income, uninsured patients...Dispensary of Hope...has collected more than $150 million in medications from both manufacturers and health-systems...motivated to donate by moral imperatives and economic incentives....

India’s Supreme Court has asked the federal government to reexamine its pricing policy for essential medicines after a group of non-governmental organizations challenged the provisions,...the formula by which prices of essential medicines are currently being fixed in India as "unreasonable and irrational",...government currently caps the prices of more than 500 essential medicines..

congressional leaders ..launched an investigation of Planned Parenthood after a video implying it sells the organs of aborted fetuses was released on the Internet. The reproductive health group said the video is false.