- Delaware becomes latest state to regulate telemedicine practices (modernhealthcare.com)
Delaware..to require health insurers to pay for telemedicine after ..governor approved an updated law regulating the virtual services… prohibiting insurers from engaging in discriminatory practices against providers who use telemedicine to deliver care.
- Should You Be Concerned About The ‘Weekend Effect?’ (forbes.com)
Increased Death Risk Internationally–If Admitted To A Hospital Over The Weekend...Emergencies happen 24/7–so why is it when we are admitted to a hospital on a weekend, the care we receive might not be exactly the same as the care we are given during a standard work week?..
- How to save the meaningful use program (healthcareitnews.com)
Imposing (electronic health records) on the medical community and forcing them to adopt and use this technology was destined to fail…. meaningful use considers electronic health records as the only type of IT solution and ignores the fact that there are many other IT services that can help medical providers much more.
- Physicians and telehealth: Is it time to embrace virtual visits? (medicaleconomics.modernmedicine.com)
Telehealth services…are viewed increasingly as competition by physicians and healthcare systems,… offer remote audio and/or video consultations with physicians on mobile devices or desktop computers…healthcare organizations are…partnering with telehealth services… leading the way into this brave new world of virtual visits.
- Cerner tapped by DoD for new lab system (healthcareitnews.com)
Defense Health Agency has picked Cerner to replace the Military Health System's anatomic pathology laboratory information system...'We understand the value of providing the DoD with the best healthcare IT solutions possible'..
- Virtual Clinic Benefits Community Pharmacies (pharmacytimes.com)
..virtual clinic launched by 1-800-Pharmacy and the Independent Pharmacy Cooperative aims to assist pharmacists at independent community pharmacies…benefits include free health care information produced by physicians, around-the-clock video urgent care, and unlimited video consultations with physicians…Community pharmacists can leverage all of these features in their practice,…
- Nursing homes get help with HIE (healthcareitnews.com)
nursing homes have traditionally been one of the weakest links when it comes to health information exchange and care coordination,… new project to help improve those facilities' electronic communication…With.. a $14.8 million CMS grant to reduce avoidable re-hospitalizations among nursing home residents with hospitals.
- Number of US heroin users rose 300,000 over a decade (hosted.ap.org)
number of U.S. heroin users has grown by nearly 300,000 over a decade,..think the increase was driven by people switching from opioid painkillers to cheaper heroin...
- 10 Best Biotech Stocks in the NASDAQ (thestreet.com)
..biotech sector has been one of the best performing sectors this year. While the Nasdaq Composite rose 5.3% for the first six months of the year, the Nasdaq Biotech Index rose a whopping 21.6% as of June 30. In comparison the S&P 500 Index barely eked out a positive return for the first two quarters
- Synergy Pharmaceuticals Inc. (SGYP)
- Retrophin, Inc. (RTRX)
- Horizon Pharma plc (HZNP)
- Exelixis Inc. (EXEL)
- Prothena Corporation plc (PRTA)
- Anacor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (ANAC)
- ImmunoGen, Inc. (IMGN)
- Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. (HALO)
- Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical (RARE)
- Kythera Biopharmaceuticals (KYTH)
- The ‘fatal cost’ of poor IT rollouts (healthcareitnews.com)
health organizations "make rookie mistakes" in their technology implementations,...these rollouts leave hospitals vulnerable to serious patient safety risks… unrealistic timelines… rely too much on vendors..