How Politically Unpopular Research From AHRQ Helps Us Make Better Medical...
By: Kenny Lin The health services research world is reeling today from the inclusion of draft language in a House of Representatives appropriations bill that would eliminate the entire budget of the...
View ArticleThe FDA, social media, and Big Pharma – Part 1 of 2
By: Kenny Lin Last December, more than two years after first holding public hearings on the promotion of medical drugs and devices via social media, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration finally...
View ArticleFDA Approves Ingestible Monitors For Patients
By: Kevin Fickenscher Again, one of the new evolving technologies is the use of digestible sensors that can report medication adherence and vital signs. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...
View ArticleA Strategist’s Guide to Personalized Medicine
By Avi Kulkarni ann Nelia Padilla McGreevy, First Posted on strategy+business, September 13, 2012 Breakthroughs in pharmaceutical innovation are poised to change the prevailing business model of the...
View ArticleiHT² Weekend Edition Recap: Meaningful Use Stage 2 Comparison Infographic
“Patient Engagement is the Blockbuster Drug of the Century” The insight of the year goes to Leonard Kish, a health IT strategy consultant, for making that statement regarding patient engagement. The...
View ArticleStrengthening Our National System For Medical Device Postmarket Surveillance
Several high-proile medical device performance concerns have led some to question whether the current United States postmarket surveillance system is optimally structured to meet the challenges of...
View Article[Report] FDA Should Expand Its Consideration of Information Security for...
Certain medical devices have become increasingly complex, and the growing use of wireless technology in these devices has raised concerns about how protected they are against information security risks...
View ArticleOnly 1 in 1000 mHealth Apps Have been Regulated by FDA
By Gabriel Perna, First Postedon July 28 , 2014 A trio of health law experts have advocated for more regulation and oversight of the mobile health (mHealth) application industry, saying that only 100...
View ArticleShifting from Predicting to Forecasting: One Healthcare Expert’s Perspective
By Mark Hagland, First Posted on August 3, 2014 Though predicting has been the norm among healthcare industry observers for many decades, Jeffrey C. Bauer, Ph.D. says it’s time to make the shift to...
View ArticleSchumer: Wearable Tracking Device Data Can Be Sold to Third Parties
By iHealthBeat.com, First Posted on Monday, August 11, 2014 During a news conference on Sunday, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) discussed the lack of regulations over data collected by wearable...
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