- Novo’s chief medical officer dishes on innovation in diabetes drug development (biopharmadive.com)
there are 182 drugs in development for diabetes,..fewer drugs in development for T1DM...compared with type 2 diabetes (T2DM),..a lot of work focused on defining the genomic makeup of type 1 diabetes, which has allowed researchers to identify biomarkers…"I consider this approach radically innovative."….optimistic about the progress that’s been made in developing a closed-loop system..an automated mechanical glucose-responsive, sensor-guided insulin- infusion system...
- FDA unveils precision medicine platform (healthcareitnews.com)Advancing precision medicine by enabling a collaborative informatics community (blogs.fda.gov)
Food and Drug Administration…revealed that it is working to build a software platform for precision medicine and an informatics community around it… contracted with DNAnexus, to create open source cloud-based software for sharing genomic information…will help..advance the science around the accuracy and reproducibility of next generation sequencing-based tests,..
- Medicare’s three-day rule may lead to longer-than-needed hospital stays (fiercehealthcare.com)
Medicare's rule that says patients must stay in the hospital for three days before it will cover their care in a skilled nursing facility may not be helping patients,…costing Medicare plans money… the average hospital length of stay decreased for patients whose plans eliminated the rule, while it increased for those that still applied the rule…
- Yelp gets into hospital review business (healthcareitnews.com)
Yelp is teaming up with an unlikely partner to put more healthcare facility data and reviews into the hands of the consumer….announced it would be inking a deal with…ProPublica to integrate data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services onto the business pages of more than 25,000 healthcare facilities…
- Why Do Pets Have Better Web Portals For Medical Records Than Humans? (healthaffairs.org)
..realities of having children is that it is very likely you will also have pets…with pets come responsibilities…such as...taking your cat to the veterinarian…my vet provides access to a health information web portal for my pets,…it was not until the recent release of proposed revisions to Stage 2 Meaningful Use requirements…that I realized perhaps web portal designers for human electronic health records could learn a thing or two from what I know is already available for pets...
- Do quality metrics hurt patient care? (healthcareitnews.com)Primary Care Providers' Views of Recent Trends in Health Care Delivery and Payment (commonwealthfund.org)
Half of primary care physicians across the country view the increasing use of quality-of-care metrics and penalties for unnecessary hospitalizations as potentially troubling for patient care,..see healthcare information technology as a boon for quality care…increased use of quality metrics to assess provider performance is having a negative impact… programs that impose financial penalties for...re-admissions are having a negative effect…
- New pharmacy delivery app hits Manhattan (drugstorenews.com)ZipDrug (zipdrug.com)
new app is looking to give Manhattanites a reprieve from standing in line at the pharmacy. Zipdrug,…allows users to have their prescriptions delivered on-demand within an hour… bicycle messengers will pick up medications — except for controlled substances — from the user’s preferred pharmacy,…so long as the prescriber submits an electronic script.
- Prominent healthcare CIO: FDA medical device security warning “will be the first of many” (networkworld.com)
Dr. John Halamka … sound the alarm on medical device threats in the wake of the FDA late last week issuing its first cybersecurity warning about a specific medical device…urged healthcare facilities to stop using Hospira's Symbiq Infusion System, a common device for dispensing fluids/drugs to patients…the devices could be accessed via a hospital network and rejiggered to mess up a patient's dosage….this will be the first of many advisories...involving medical device vulnerabilities.
- VPP Online Application Launches, Offers Streamlined Process (nabp.net)
Verified Pharmacy Program processes,… new application will facilitate a more efficient application process for pharmacies… to make pharmacy licensure, inspection, and disciplinary action information available to the boards of pharmacy to support licensure decisions….can assist pharmacies, particularly those…in multiple states, by facilitating the sharing of verified pharmacy data and providing inspection services,…
- Telemedicine market to soar past $30B (healthcareitnews.com)
global market for telemedicine is expected to be worth more than $34 billion by the end of 2020…Driving growth…is an increasing aged population, increasing incidences of chronic diseases and rapid rise in the software market… many healthcare systems are trying to reduce both the number of hospital visits and the length of stay …trend for patients to be monitored in their home environment..