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‘Antibiotic apocalypse’: doctors sound alarm over drug resistance
The Guardian
The terrifying prospect that even routine operations will be impossible to perform has been raised by experts alarmed by the rise of drug-resistant genes
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The coming $1.5 trillion shift in healthcare
Strategy Business
A comprehensive model shows how far-reaching trends in the massive industry will influence the growth of profit pools — and how payors and providers should respond.
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Health insurers are vacuuming up details about you — and it could raise your rates
ProPublica
Without any public scrutiny, insurers and data brokers are predicting your health costs based on data about things like race, marital status, how much TV you watch, whether you pay your bills on time or even buy plus-size clothing.
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Global cartilage repair/regeneration market will reach USD 6.5 billion by 2024: Zion Market Research
Ortho Spine News
New York, NY, Aug. 20, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Zion Market Research has published a new report titled “Cartilage Repair/Regeneration Market by Treatm
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Unbundling healthcare
USV
USV has been investing in health-related technologies for about five years.
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Hating big pharma is good, but supply-side epidemic theory is killing people
Long Reads
New books about the opioid crisis — “Dopesick,” “Fight for Space” and “American Fix” — have different ideas about who’s to blame and what to do next. Our critic says regulating supply can have deadly consequences, and we need to address users' pain.
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Health is politics on a grand scale
Fortune
Health—and medicine—is politics on a grand scale, writes Boston University's Dr. Sandro Galea, citing the example of transgender rights.
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How machine learning could detect medicare fraud
HCA News
Researchers found that a random forest learning algorithm was most effective at detecting possible Medicare fraud.
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How do consumers navigate the health care frontier?
Deloitte
Health care providers, health plans, and life sciences companies can use novel approaches to segmentation to better target, attract, and retain consumers.
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Gaining Medicaid insurance coverage may help bring down emergency room use for nonemergency reasons
Deloitte
Explore our analysis to understand how ER use has shifted as people go from being uninsured to having Medicaid coverage.
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Social determinants of health and Medicaid payments
Deloitte
Learn how states can do a better job of factoring the social determinants of health into their Medicaid payment policies.
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The million-dollar drug
CBC
Glybera is one of Canada's great scientific achievements that you have probably never heard about. UBC scientists spent decades developing the world’s first approved gene therapy. It is safe. It could save lives. But it's no longer available anywhere in the world — $1 million per dose was a problem.
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Health Canada gives 'kiss of death' to planned policy for rare-disease drugs
The National Post
The framework was announced by the Harper government in 2012, but sat on the back burner since then. Health Canada recently deleted all references from its…
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Big Pharma shells out $20B each year to schmooze docs, $6B on drug ads
Arstechnica
Persuading doctors and direct-to-consumer ads land 1-2 punch for knockout sales.
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Beyond the EHR
Deloitte
Many health systems seem to be waiting to adopt technology that will support new payment models. But waiting to invest could put health care organizations at risk of falling behind.
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The next wave of innovation
Deloitte
From tight margins and the shift to value-based payment models to new digital technology, many R&D leaders are taking a fresh look at investment strategies.
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250 more hospitals just joined in on a plan to make their own drugs and the effort could upend the generic pharma business
Business Insider
Another 12 health systems joined an organization aiming to lower the price of prescription drugs. The hope is to make generic drugs that are in shortage or have high prices.
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Understanding physician network dynamics could help providers bring down health care costs
Deloitte
Understanding physician network dynamics could help providers bring down health care costs
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Healthcare by 2028 will be doctor-directed, patient-owned and powered by visual technologies
Techcrunch
Visual assessment is critical to healthcare -- whether that is a doctor peering down your throat as you say “ahhh” or an MRI of your brain.
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Ping An Good Doctor launches commercial operation of one-minute clinics in China
Mobile Health News
The company announced last week that it had placed its One-minute Clinics across 8 provinces and cities in China and signed service contracts for nearly 1,000 units.
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The hospital is dead. Welcome to Ducktown
Tennessean
Rural hospitals are collapsing throughout Tennessee, creating health care deserts in poor, far-flung towns where residents are the most vulnerable.
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The medical tech that helps you when your doctor can’t
New York Times
A new breed of tech company wants to fill the gaps between you, your doctor and your health insurance.
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Shifting into high gear
Deloitte
The health care industry is counting on analytics to unlock value. But have health systems moved the needle on investment in and use of analytics?
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Predictive analytics in health care
Deloitte
As the health care industry begins to use new technologies such as predictive analytics, government health agencies, doctors, and primary health providers must be aware of risks and agree on standards.
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Health care providers are hiring the wrong people
Harvard Business Review
Sometimes technical skills aren’t the most important thing.
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Ambulatory surgery center growth accelerates: is medtech ready?
Bain & Company
As outpatient surgery centers perform a growing share of procedures, medtech leaders are rethinking their commercial strategies.
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Digital health technology
Deloitte
​Around the world, countries and health care organizations are making progress in using health information technology to improve outcomes and access, paving the way for the future of health.
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Six assumptions for measuring health disruption
Deloitte
The future of health, where well-being will replace treatment and the customer will be at the center of health care, seems far away, but here’s evidence that change is already underway.
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New players take the field: How private employer healthcare could mean more focus on people
Business Insider
Direct primary care is a new movement of doctors and healthcare providers who don't accept insurance — instead relying on a monthly membership fee.
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America’s social contract with the biopharmaceutical industry
Medium
This is the first in a series of articles that aim to define the biopharmaceutical industry’s social contract with America, to examine practices that deviate from that contract, and to propose…
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Intelligent drug supply chain
Deloitte
This report explores the potential for AI technologies to improve the safety, productivity and costs of the biopharma supply chain and manufacturing processes.
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The keys to private healthcare in Singapore
YouTube - VisualPolitik EN
Developed countries as well as many emerging countries, as in China’s case, are beginning to see the effects that demographic aging and many public services’...
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Why die
YouTube - CGP Grey
Watch part 2 from Kurzgesagt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoJsr4IwCm4How many people die in a day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMNGEY8OZqo&list=PLqs5...
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Nurse practitioners call on province for change to their profession
CBC
Nurse practitioners have been a part of the healthcare system in Ontario for several decades, yet they say they still face barriers in their ability to provide complete care to their patients.
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'There is a real crisis': Domestic workers are in high demand, but the jobs have few protections and little pay
Money
Domestic workers are in high demand, but the hobs have few protections and little pay.
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Why 70 percent of physicians would not recommend the profession
Healthcare Finance News
Seven out of 10 physicians are unwilling to recommend their chosen profession to their children or other family members, according to the nationwide Future of Healthcare Survey of more than 3,400 physicians released by The Doctors Company. WHY IT MATTERS Physicians' feelings about their jobs are so bad that more than half say they are contemplating retirement within the next
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How employers are fixing health care
Harvard Business Review
Walmart has embraced a new approach to improve the quality of care and lower costs. The results have been dramatic.
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Women inventors, long overlooked, are churning out more patents than ever
CNN
Researchers analyzed millions of patent applications and found that women's patents were more likely to be rejected than men's. But that disparity dropped when examiners encountered a woman whose name wasn't one that is typically associated with females.
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Do doctors even want the Apple Watch's health features?
Mashable
Health features are a crown jewel priority for Apple.
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Too few black men become doctors. A medical student conference in Philly seeks to change that
Inquirer
A shortage of black male doctors has plagued the medical field for decades, and research shows it's harming patient care.
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‘Around 85000 female doctors not working after getting medical education in Pakistan’
The News
There are around 85000 female doctors, who completed their medical education on the expense of state or privately but they are not part of the medical workforce in Pakistan.
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The future of work in social services
YouTube - IBM Services
Automation is changing the future of work in every industry. Learn how intelligent automation is creating more time for child welfare workers to spend with v...
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Pharmacists face same workforce crisis as general practice, warns CCA chief
Pharmaceutical Journal
Community pharmacy is “facing the same recruitment and retention crisis” as general practice, the head of the Company Chemists’ Association has said.
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Science-ing from home
Nature
In the first of two articles about laboratory closures triggered by COVID-19, scientists affected by the shutdowns outline the tools they are using to run their research groups remotely. In the first of two articles about laboratory closures triggered by COVID-19, scientists affected by the shutdowns outline the tools they are using to run their research groups remotely.
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WFS’ pharma facilities at airports prove vital
STAT Trade Times
Worldwide Flight Services’ (WFS’) investment in 12 dedicated pharma facilities at airports in Europe, the United States and Africa generated significant increases in time- and temperature-sensitive volumes in the first five months of 2020
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Marketing for life science companies – drivers of change
Pharmaphorum
Digital in itself is no longer a way for the industry to show its innovativeness and gain a competitive advantage – it should be considered as a pre-condition for staying relevant on a transformed market