“In January 2009 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts launched a new provider payment system called the Alternative Quality Contract that exemplifies…
The pharmacist is called “Riva” “Robotic ID Automation” the robot that does the compounding, filling and so on. One of the big…
The 10,000 chemicals to be tested will include chemicals in industrial and consumer products as well as food additives and drugs. So…
At a recent medtech conference, and discussed by WSJ, it was noted that the big device companies (e.g., J&J, Medtronic, Boston Scientific)…
Comorbidity of Mental and Physical Illness
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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Synthesis Project has produced an excellent report and accompanying policy brief entitled Mental disorders and medical comorbidity….
Microsoft has opened the call for entries for the 2011 Life Sciences Innovation Awards, where customers and partners can demonstrate how they…
How Massachusetts’ Commonwealth Connector is Better than Utah’s Health Exchange
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The range of current libertarian-conservative expert opinion on ObamaCare’s Health Benefits Exchanges has well-defined boundaries. On the one hand, there are those…
ThromboVision is a medical devices company that has developed a technological platform to determine an individual’s susceptibility to thrombosis, an adverse blood…
Physicians are understandably skeptical about the validity and usefulness of patient satisfaction and experience ratings. Yet after reading Moving the needle on…