Economies of Scale Enable Mumbai-Based Laboratory to Be Market Leader
When Dr. A. Velumani set up his first laboratory in 1995, he did not know that it would one day command 60% of the Indian market share with a growth…
One Week Into the Heart of the ACA
The Affordable Care Act was enacted all the way back in 2010. But, even before then, critics were asserting that this new law would more or less destroy the American…
Bigger Health System, More Room to Tinker?
First published on MedCityNews.com. The biggest of the big hospitals are getting even bigger. And, according to early analyses of the ongoing wave hospital consolidation, they’re giving way to more…
Order Workflows
Except for emergent situations, no medical device is used without an order. And if not an order written to accomplish a certain clinical task for a specific patient, then “standing”…
4 Reasons Doctors Are Taking a Fresh Look at In-Office Dispensing
More than ever, medical practices throughout the US are motivated to look (again) at ancillary services to bolster shrinking income and to further differentiate their marketing message.As we enter the…
If ObamaCare Fails, Are We On to Single Payer?
Is Obamacare just a trap set to lead the country toward a single payer system? The answer is no, but opponents of the law might want to think twice before…
Private Exchanges: Getting Ready for Individual Health Insurance to Be the Standard
Professor John H. Cochrane of the University of Chicago had an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal on December 25, in which he gave a brief description of (among other…
What Patient Centricity Means to Marketers
In 2011, when Lilly and Disney teamed up to create a series of books for kids with type 1 diabetes, they chose to distribute them exclusively through doctors’ offices. In…
ALS Patient Improves on NurOwn, New Stem Cell Therapy
BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics Inc. announced the results Monday of its most recent research on NurOwn, a new stem cell treatment developed by the company. BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics Inc. announced the…
