- New mandatory logo for selling medicines online (gov.uk)
...anybody in the UK selling medicines online to the general public needs to be registered with the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency....Anybody buying medicines online can check if the website is legitimately registered and will be able to click on the logo which will take them through to a list of approved sellers.
- Three considerations before choosing an EHR (medicaleconomics.modernmedicine.com)
A successful EHR implementation should begin well before your selected vendor partner arrives at your practice to install your system. Even before you choose an EHR, your practice should conduct its due diligence by making a careful assessment of staff needs and wants.
- Welcome to DrugAbacus, an interactive exploration of drug pricing. (drugabacus.org)
DrugAbacus ... lets you compare the price the company charges to a price based on value – a price called the "Abacus Price." How does DrugAbacus find the value of a drug? It doesn’t. You do… lets you combine … information in many different ways, based on the idea that a drug’s value can be broken up into its parts.
- Former CFO heads to prison on MU fraud (healthcareitnews.com)
Attested to meaningful use even as the hospital continued to use paper records.….. chief financial officer…sentenced to federal prison after admitting to meaningful use fraud,…sentenced…to 23 months in prison…..false statement….was a meaningful user of electronic health records, when the hospital did not meet the requirements of the federal EHR Incentive Programs.
- Dating app users say they’re not to blame for STD increase in Southern Nevada (reviewjournal.com)
It’s all fun and games until the itching and burning starts. Ever vigilant public health officials...worry that online dating apps and so-called hook-up websites raise the risk of spreading sexually transmitted diseases. "These websites and apps can be very problematic, especially when we see STDs on the rise here in Clark County...." said Dr. Joe Iser, chief medical officer for the Southern Nevada Health District.
- Researchers gain support and insights at the 2nd Annual Mountain West Clinical and Translational Research Meeting (unr.edu)
Researchers….. gathered at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas ….. to share successes and opportunities in clinical and translational research at the Second Annual Meeting of the Mountain West Clinical and Translational Research-Infrastructure Network. UNLV and the University of Nevada School of Medicine are co-administrators of a….$20 million grant supported by the National Institutes of Health…..
- Teva partners with Microchips Biotech to explore implantable drug delivery device (drugstorenews.com)
Teva and Microchips Biotech have announced a partnership..... implanted delivery system that can store hundreds of doses of a drug over the course of months or years.....hope is to increase outcomes for patients with chronic drug therapies.
- Large-scale COPD patient network in the works (medicaleconomics.modernmedicine.com)
Program to enroll 125,000 COPD patients to gather data and integrate social online platform to address third leading cause of death in U.S. The COPD Foundation’s COPD360 program is being assembled to accelerate research and foster innovation...
- How Much Should Cancer Drugs Cost? (wsj.com)
Memorial Sloan Kettering doctors create pricing calculator that weighs factors such as side effects, extra years of life….challenging the pharmaceutical industry to adopt a more rational approach to drug pricing…interactive calculator that compares the cost of more than 50 cancer drugs….
- CVS Health’s new digital innovation lab focuses on customer experience (drugstorenews.com)
Imagine a world where access to any health information or services you needed was available at any time through your digital device. We are not there yet, but CVS Health is doing its best to create that world with its new Digital Innovation Lab located in Boston..."We want to change how healthcare is delivered in this country, and digital is at the heart of the transformation."