eyeforpharma Awards: Recognizing and celebrating innovation
At the eyeforpharma Awards we strive to reward, support and incentivise innovation, especially when it comes to the value pharma offers patients and customers. We only recognize meaningful innovation which takes our industry, our reputation and our impact forward and the entries are measured objectively by external judges.
I was amazed by the quality of entries this year. With 500 nominations, our judges – a mixture of patients and health professionals – deliberated hard for many hours, finally settling on just 16 winners, each exemplifying the very best work in pharma.
By ‘best’, we mean not just internal ...
Source: EyeForPharma - December 19, 2019 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Paul Simms Source Type: news
eyeforpharma Awards: Recognizing and celebrating innovation
At the eyeforpharma Awards we strive to reward, support and incentivise innovation, especially when it comes to the value pharma offers patients and customers. We only recognize meaningful innovation which takes our industry, our reputation and our impact forward and the entries are measured objectively by external judges.
I was amazed by the quality of entries this year. With 500 nominations, our judges – a mixture of patients and health professionals – deliberated hard for many hours, finally settling on just 16 winners, each exemplifying the very best work in pharma.
By ‘best’, we mean not just internal ...
Source: EyeForPharma - December 19, 2019 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Paul Simms Source Type: news
U.S. healthcare spending rose slightly in 2018
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U.S. healthcare spending growth slows in 2017 (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - December 9, 2019 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
Infant morbidity decreases with incentive-based prenatal tobacco interventions
(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) A new study in Colorado reveals a significant reduction in NICU (up to 55%) and preterm births due to incentive-based programs implemented to help low-income pregnant women stop smoking cigarettes. Colorado saved over 4 million dollars in healthcare costs by providing these programs and has an opportunity to save 16 million. The issue is critical because smoking in the third trimester of pregnancy is three to four times higher among women who live in poverty. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - December 6, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
National group publishes approach to improve pediatric sepsis surveillance
(Boston Medical Center) Sepsis is a major public health problem, contributing to substantial disability, death, and healthcare costs in the United States among both adults and children. Though sepsis is the focus of worldwide prevention and quality improvement efforts, tracking sepsis rates and outcomes is challenging because a definitive diagnostic test does not yet exist. Sepsis is particularly difficult to track in infants and children because of age-related differences in responses to infection and treatment approaches. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - November 27, 2019 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Soaring healthcare costs weigh on voters in US battleground states
Voters in several battleground states that could hold the balance of power in next year ’s presidential election ranked health care costs the biggest threat to the U.S. economy, according to a recent poll conducted by the Financial Times and the Peter G Peterson Foundation. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - November 25, 2019 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Patti Waldmeir in Minneapolis, Minnesota Source Type: news
Soaring healthcare costs weigh on voters in US battleground states
Voters in several battleground states that could hold the balance of power in next year ’s presidential election ranked health care costs the biggest threat to the U.S. economy, according to a recent poll conducted by the Financial Times and the Peter G Peterson Foundation. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - November 25, 2019 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Patti Waldmeir in Minneapolis, Minnesota Source Type: news
Healthcare costs weigh on voters in US battleground states
Issue of medical bills is big issue in presidential election, according to FT poll (Source: FT.com - Drugs and Healthcare)
Source: FT.com - Drugs and Healthcare - November 24, 2019 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Humana's Medicare Advantage value-based programs reduce healthcare costs by $3.5 billion, report shows
Humana ' s revenue is projected to increase on 17% rise in MA membership and premium increases, but return of HIF reduced workforce by 2%. (Source: mobihealthnews)
Source: mobihealthnews - November 22, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Peanut Allergy Healthcare Costs High Peanut Allergy Healthcare Costs High
Nut allergy is a significant burden on the healthcare system, new research confirms, but immunotherapies on the horizon might reduce that.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - November 21, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Allergy & Clinical Immunology News Source Type: news
LimFlow Shows ‘PROMISE’ During VIVA
A firm that was labeled one of Medtech’s 16 Most Promising Private Companies by Canaccord Genuity earlier this year, has strong results from a study that will help with FDA approval. LimFlow recently announced positive six-month data from the full patient cohort in its PROMISE I early feasibility study of the Percutaneous Deep Vein Arterialization (pDVA) System.
The Paris-based company presented the data during the Vascular Interventional Advances [VIVA] Conference held in Las Vegas, earlier this month. The company’s technology is used for the treatment of chronic limb-threatening ischem...
Source: MDDI - November 18, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Omar Ford Tags: Cardiovascular Source Type: news
Medical Tourism Lowers Healthcare Costs for Companies and Their Employees, But Is It Good Medicine for Patients and Can Clinical Laboratories Participate?
Some companies save so much in healthcare cost they pay their employees to participate in medical tourism programs Medical tourism is not new, but it’s changing, and clinical laboratories have a role to play in the models employers use to save money on their employees’ health coverage costs. Employers that manage the entire process—from securing […] (Source: Dark Daily)
Source: Dark Daily - November 6, 2019 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Jude Tags: Laboratory Management and Operations Laboratory Operations Laboratory Pathology Laboratory Testing Management & Operations AMA American Journal of Medicine american medical association AMJMED anatomic pathology Ashley Furniture Industr Source Type: news
Anxiety disorders increase patients' healthcare costs
(Source: PharmacoEconomics and Outcomes News)
Source: PharmacoEconomics and Outcomes News - October 31, 2019 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
Rising healthcare costs are another driver of US inequality
America’s have-nots have benefited from low inflation, except when it comes to medical costs. (Source: FT.com - Drugs and Healthcare)
Source: FT.com - Drugs and Healthcare - October 28, 2019 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Associations among neighborhood greenspace, neighborhood violence, and children's asthma control in an urban city - DePriest K, Butz A, Curriero FC, Perrin N, Gross D.
Among 6.1 million children with asthma, 38% have uncontrolled asthma leading to increased pediatric emergency department (ED) visits, hospitalizations, and healthcare costs. Uncontrolled asthma unequally harms children from lower-income, racial and ethn... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 19, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
