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NIH and Other Public Private Partnerships to Research Treatments for Multiple Diseases
Over the past few weeks, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has made a number of important announcements regarding collaborations with industry as well as the funding of several new research initiatives. Below is a summary of these stories. NIH Partners With Eli Lilly and Others on Rare Diseases FierceBiotechResearch reported that NIH selected four (4) new preclinical drug development studies to uncover new therapies for rare diseases. The projects will be funded through the Therapeutics for Rare and Neglected Diseases (TRND) program under NIH's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, NCATS, which ...
Source: Policy and Medicine - October 4, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs

Kaiser Health News/Philadelphia Inquirer on InformaticsMD: "The flaws of electronic records"
At my Dec. 2012 post "How an interview for Kaiser Health News rekindled memories of health IT dysfunction in the 90's that persist in the 10's" I mentioned an interview by a reporter from the Kaiser Health Foundation interviewed me regarding health IT flaws.His article appeared in both the Philadelphia Inquirer and Kaiser Health News today under the title "The flaws of electronic records":Philadelphia Inquirer / Kaiser Health NewsFeb. 18, 2013Jay Hancock, KAISER HEALTH NEWSThe flaws of electronic recordsDrexel University's Scot Silverstein is a leading critic of the rapid switch to computerized medical charts, saying the n...
Source: Health Care Renewal - February 18, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: Richard Cook Philadelphia Inquirer healthcare IT risk ross koppel David Blumenthal Kaiser Family Foundation Kaiser Health News george lundberg ONC matthew holt Jay Hancock IOM Source Type: blogs

Stripping Safely and What Medicare Has to Do With It
At this point, I won't try to repeat what others in the community have already said about the "Strip Safely" [http://www.stripsafely.com/] campaign other than to reiterate some of what I think are their key points, as I have a few points I think are worth noting.  The folks at diaTribe have a very well-written summary of what's at stake (see HERE).  Also, my friend Riva Greenberg discussed the recent move by Medicare in her Huffington Post column (see http://huff.to/13avkif for details).Let me take a step back and give you some relevant background which is important for my readers to understand the issues.Back in...
Source: Scott's Web Log - August 21, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Scott S Source Type: blogs