M-Health forging Ahead

Here are some great articles from mobilehealthnews.com on the uptake of mobile health solutions, particularly using the iphone: Roche decides it’s time to enter mHealth. Roche Diagnostics inked a deal with Glucose Buddy iPhone app developer Healthagen, because Roche believes that the time to get into the wireless health market is now. While the company’s [...]

Fixing America’s Health

There is no quick fix. But I admire Obama for getting his hands bloody. If the least he achieves while in office is a debate near the scale we are having, I think he’s done better than most. To have so many industry leaders offering cost-concessions is already quite a coup. WSJ has offered a few [...]

Pharma 2020: PwC Analysis

PwC’s latest industry synopsis offers some of the bleeding obvious, but also a few gems that I think companies are perhaps not too aware of. The clincher for me is in the following excerpt: Management guru Clay Christensen has convincingly demonstrated how disruptive innovations in various industries have dismantled the prevailing business model, by enabling [...]

Facebook better than Games

From 6minutes.com.au: Youngsters should put down the gaming console and log onto Facebook to improve their wellbeing, an Australian study has found. The study, which surveyed over 900 adolescents aged between 13 and 19, found that Victorian youngsters spend more than two hours watching television each day, followed by 35 minutes playing video games and [...]

Another Medical Search Tool: Quertle

Looking for a new way to search the literature? From www.quertle.info: More than simple keyword searching: Quertle goes beyond simple term matching to identify the most salient information in the literature. Using a combination of linguistic methods, Quertle finds facts defined within documents, creating its own database of nearly 150 million relationships, and is able [...]

Only Moore’s Law can save Big Pharma

An interesting article by Bill Frezza – read below: If ever there was an industry at risk of being sunk by not one but three category five hurricanes, it’s the pharmaceutical industry. Whether it’s on the political, economic, or scientific front this major contributor to our nation’s financial and physical well being is headed for [...]

PubGet – a new search tool

Ever been frustrated by the myriad of links and publishers pages you have to wade through to access a PDF? PubGet now allows you to cut out the middle man and get the file directly. It automatically checks your access rights from your home institution and delivers you straight to the paper of interest.

Personal Genomics is Here!

Most people believe it is still pie-in the sky, even the stuff of science fiction. But at a recent consumer genetics show, Illumina CEO Jay Flatley unveiled their new personal sequencing service valued at $48,000. At first glance this seems like a lot. But I believe this may already be a cost effective preventative health [...]

Websites that Rate Doctors having an Impact

In a world where patients can sound off about their doctors at RateMDs.com, Yelp, DrScore, Angie’s List, Vitals.com and some 35 other sites, what’s a doctor to do? In some cases, they’re striking back by demanding that patients sign contracts prohibiting them from making online comments in any media outlet without prior written consent from [...]

Mobile Phones the next Health Platform

Mobile phones could be the next major platform for personal health monitoring tools, experts say. In the future, people could use mobile phones to share, store and add information to their personal medical records. In addition, people with chronic conditions could use special add-on devices to monitor diabetes, blood pressure or oxygen levels in their [...]