Surescripts on June 2 kicked off their $25,000 “Adherence Challenge: Closing Gaps in Data and Care” at Health Datapalooza 2014. The goal of the Challenge is to develop a technology solution to leverage medication history data in order to identify gaps in care and create actionable intelligence for use in treating patients at risk of harm from poor medication adherence. (more…)
“OpenFDA” Just Released
On June 2, 2014, FDA announced the launch of OpenFDA at https://open.fda.gov, a new initiative from the FDA Office of Informatics and Technology Innovation (OITI). OpenFDA is designed to make it easier for developers, researchers, and the public to access and use the many large health data sets collected by the agency. The publicity available data sets once integrated and analyzed can provide knowledge and insights that can’t be gained from any other single source. (more…)
Avalere Expanding Internationally
Avalere Health at www.avalere.com is expanding internationally by offering services in reimbursement and health economics for life sciences companies. To accomplish this goal, the company has initiated a partnership with Pope Woodhead & Associates, a European-based consultancy with thirty years of expertise in partnering with life science companies. (more…)
CMS Announces New Initiatives
CMS announced new initiatives at the June Health Datapalooza Conference held in Washington D.C. CMS has released their first annual update to Medicare hospital information comparing the average amount a hospital bills for services that may be provided in connection with similar inpatient stay or outpatient visits. (more…)
NIH Launches Pain Database
Pain is a symptom of many disorders and chronic pain alone can present as a disease. The economic cost of pain is estimated to cost hundreds of billions of dollars annually in lost wages and productivity. (more…)
CORHIO Increases HIE Services
The Defense Health Agency’s Colorado Springs Military Health System now operating as part of Colorado’s Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO), is going to improve care quality and the medical information flow between military and civilian providers. (more…)
NYU Implants Device
Recently, NYU Langone Medical Center became the first hospital outside of a clinical trial site to implant a pacemaker-like device in the brain that may be a game changer for patients with epilepsy. (more…)