The “open data” movement runs aground on FOURIER
BY ANISH KOKA
Reanalysis of a trial used to approve a commonly used injectable cholesterol-lowering drug confirms the original analysis by accident.
The open-data movement seeks to liberate the massive amount of data generated in running clinical trials from the grasp of the academic medical-pharmaceutical industrial complex that mostly runs the most important trials responsible for bringing novel therapeutics to market.
There are only a few elite academic trialist groups capable of running large trials and there’s ample reason to be suspicious about the nexus that has developed between academia and the pharmace...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
The Open Data Movement Runs Aground on FOURIER
BY ANISH KOKA
Reanalysis of a trial used to approve a commonly used injectable cholesterol-lowering drug confirms the original analysis by accident.
The open-data movement seeks to liberate the massive amount of data generated in running clinical trials from the grasp of the academic medical-pharmaceutical industrial complex that mostly runs the most important trials responsible for bringing novel therapeutics to market.
There are only a few elite academic trialist groups capable of running large trials and there’s ample reason to be suspicious about the nexus that has developed between academia and the pharmace...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Practice Anish Koka FDA regulations Fourier open data Source Type: blogs
Furore over FOURIER is (un)warranted : Evolocumab is an Innocent molecule !
Welcome back to the big molecular science of PCSK and its antagonist Evolocumab, a monoclonal antibody designed to target and prevent the LDL receptor catabolism inside the lysosomes. Evolocumab was approved by FDA for aggressive lowering of LDL, following a customary study published in NEJM 2017, that released this double-edged anti-lipid molecule into the human domain with all fanfare.
It aimed to reduce the LDL as low as possible in selected patients with familial LDLemia & and those who don’t tolerate statins. Now, a study was silently released in BMJ open, at the fag end of 2002, which is causing ripp...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - January 16, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: lipid metabolism evolocumab fourier study how low ldl can go inclisiron lipid guidelines acc aha esc csi Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – January 14, 2023
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
2023 Health IT Predictions: Consumerism. Healthcare IT Today kicked off 2023 by asking the experts in our community to offer their thoughts on the year ahead. Our latest round of predictions kicks off with the ongoing consumerization of healthcare. Our experts say retail health and telehealth will continue to make gains as consumers vote with their feet ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 14, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
340B (Smart)
We must have an evidence-based dialogue on the 340B program to ensure all stakeholder relationships within the program are evaluated as part of ongoing policy discussions. (Source: drugwonks.com Blog)
Source: drugwonks.com Blog - January 14, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Consumerism – 2023 Health IT Predictions
As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Check out our communities predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media.
All of this year’s 2023 health IT predictions:
Healthcare Security and Risk
Healthcare AI
Business of Healthcare and Value Based Care
Healthcare Workforce
Telehealth and RPM
Pharma
Health E...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 12, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT 2023 Health IT Predictions Adrienne Boissy Brad Kittredge Brightside Health Cedar Cleveland Clinic Craig Worland Dave Bennett Derek Streat DexCare Diana Zuskov Source Type: blogs
Which is the Ideal site to ablate VT circuit ?
Management of recurrent ventricular tachycardia has developed a lot in recent times. Anti-arrhythmic drugs(AADs) were a cornerstone for recurrent and refractory VTs .Surgeries including CABG, repair of the aneurysm, and subendocardial resection has helped to control many post-MI ischemic VTs. Soon they became obsolete. Realistically, PCIs had little impact on post-MI VT for some unknown reasons. However, with the advent of ICDs and RF, ablation, a new dimension is added to this field.
ICDs, though an attractive device, don’t prevent a VT but vow to nullify the consequence of VT. This is problematic. ICDs in spit...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - January 12, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability – 2023 Health IT Predictions
As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Check out our communities predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media.
All of this year’s 2023 health IT predictions:
Healthcare Security and Risk
Healthcare AI
Business of Healthcare and Value Based Care
Healthcare Workforce
Telehealth and RPM
Pharma
Health E...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 11, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Analytics/Big Data Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability 2023 Health IT Predictions Andy Palmer Arcion Ashley Basile Availity Bamboo Health Ben Herzberg Ciox Clarify Health Clay Ritchey David Navarro Diameter Healt Source Type: blogs
Podcast Episode Recommendation: Politico Pulse Check - Can Mark Cuban disrupt prescription drugs?
Next up on my podcast episode recommendations. Today ' s recommended podcast comes fromPolitico, which is a media outlet that has a podcast called "Pulse Check" . Politico describes its Pulse Check podcast this way: " Politico Pulse Check delivers the latest news in healthcare with sharp policy analysis and a dose of real-world perspective " . In other words, the " Pulse Check " podcast is about healthcare and health care policy emanating from Washington, DC.On December 20, 2022, Politico Plus Check interviewed Mark Cuban about his cash-payCost Plus Drug Company. Before I get to the episode itself, I must acknowledge that ...
Source: Scott's Web Log - January 10, 2023 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2023 Costco mark cuban politico pulse check podcast Source Type: blogs
Onc.AI Raises $25 Million Series A Financing Co-Led by MassMutual and Action Potential Venture Capital
Financing will support commercialization of a novel digital clinical management solution focused on immuno-oncology therapies
Onc.AI, a medical technology company developing a novel digital clinical management solution focused on immuno-oncology, announced today it has closed a $25 million Series A financing co-led by MassMutual and Action Potential Venture Capital (a GSK venture fund). Also participating were Life Extension Ventures and all existing investors including Blue Venture Fund, Accomplice, Digitalis Ventures, and KdT Ventures.
“Having first learned about Onc.AI through a leading precision-oncology expert, we a...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 10, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Genomics-Precision Medicine Health IT Company Healthcare IT Accomplice Action Potential Venture Capital Akshay Nanduri APVC Blue Venture Fund David Diaz-Casariego Digitalis Ventures Dr. Emir Sandhu Dr. Julie Hambleton GlaxoSmithKli Source Type: blogs
Podcast Recommendation: Selected Episides of Diabetes Connections with Stacey Simms
So, my next podcast recommendation is for two specific episodes ofDiabetes Connections with Stacey Simms, and more specifically two in which she discusses the Civica insulin announcement which was first announced on March 3, 2022 (see the original Civica press release athttps://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220303005321/en/Civica-to-Manufacture-and-Distribute-Affordable-Insulin/ or the concurrent JDRF press release athttps://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/jdrf-announces-support-of-civica-to-manufacture-and-distribute-low-cost-insulin-301495050.html). Many people subscribe to Diabetes Connections, although I ' m s...
Source: Scott's Web Log - January 9, 2023 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2023 Aaron Kowalski Civica Civica Rx CivicaRx GeneSys Biologics Ned McCoy Stacey Simms Source Type: blogs
Pharma – 2023 Health IT Predictions
As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Check out our communities predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media.
Check out our community’s pharma predictions.
Jesse Cugliotta, Global Industry GTM Lead, Healthcare & Life Sciences at Snowflake
Industry investments in data platforms to enable decentra...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 9, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT 2023 Health IT Predictions Abrpo BrainCheck Doceree Harshit Jain Ian Chen Jesse Cugliotta Kimberly Powell Lance Hill Lauren Ohlsson Mike Montalto NVIDIA Ofer Sharon OncoHost PathAI Pharma Source Type: blogs
Holistic Health at Sweetch: “ Feel like a person, not like a patient ”
In this video Dr. Yossi Bahagon, Co-founder and Chairman of Sweetch, discusses the deeply holistic approach they take to helping people with diabetes adopt healthy behaviors.
Whereas conventional systems for connected health deliver cold, generic instructions (“walk another 4,000 steps”; “take your medication now”), Sweetch intensely personalizes messages: “Why don’t you take an umbrella and walk just nine minutes through the rain to your favorite coffee shop.”
Sweetch is comprehensive. It collects data from the patient’s phone and any connected devices they wear, and combi...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 3, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Diabetes Management Health IT Israel Healthcare IT Video Interviews Holistic Health patient engag Source Type: blogs
Searching For The Next Search
By KIM BELLARD
I didn’t write about ChatGPT when it was first introduced a month ago because, well, it seemed like everyone else was. I didn’t play with it to see what it could do. I didn’t want it to write any poems. I didn’t have any AP tests I wanted it to pass. And, for all you know, I’m not using it to write this. But when The New York Times reports that Google sees ChatGPT as a “Code Red” for its search business, that got my attention.
A few months ago I wrote about how Google saw TikTok as an existential threat to its business, estimating that 40% of young people used it for searches. It wa...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 28, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech AI ChatGPT Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
