Precision Medicine

Also called personalized medicine, this evolving field makes use of an individual’s genes, lifestyle, environment and other factors to identify unique disease risks and guide treatment decision-making.

LG CNS Introduces Smart, Efficient Population Health Management With the LG CNS Care Cloud

GEORGETOWN, Texas, June 22, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Live at the national AHIMA LTPAC conference in Baltimore today, Collain Healthcare, an LG CNS Company, introduced the LG CNS Care Cloud, a technology ecosystem for population health management, to drive quality, reduce costs, and improve the patient, caregiver and provider experience.

Zynx Health Partners with McKesson to Optimize Order Set Deployment

Los Angeles, June 22, 2015 - Zynx Health™announced today the release of an exclusive integration between ZynxOrder® and Paragon® Hospital Information System release 13 from McKesson that makes order set management easy through automated content synchronization. This intuitive solution eliminates common integration challenges including time-consuming file-based uploads. 

COCIR and HIMSS strengthen their cooperation

BRUSSELS – 22 June 2015 – The European Coordination Committee of the Radiological, Electromedical and Healthcare IT Industry (COCIR*) and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS**) have renewed their cooperation agreement to progress their common goal of improving the use of information and management systems for the betterment of healthcare.

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2016 budget increases NIH funding, eliminates AHRQ

The draft fiscal year 2016 Labor, Health and Human Services funding bill would increase funding for the National Institutes of Health by 3.6 percent, it would eliminate the Health & Human Services’ Agency for Health Research on Quality (AHRQ).

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Leavitt Partners, Brookings merge to create new ACO collaborative

Two accountable care consulting firms will merge to create the largest accountable care collaborative. 

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Smaller stories have big impact

Yes, there was another Senate hearing on EHRs this week, public comments on the latest Meaningful Use proposed rule and more data breaches to report. But, the news that sometimes gets lost in the shuffle are the smaller stories about innovation and change which can be the most interesting and encouraging.

eRx projected to reach $888M by 2019

The global market for e-prescribing will continue to grow, reaching $887.8 million in 2019, according to a report from Persistence Market Research. 

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CVS Health opens digital innovation lab

CVS Health has officially opened its Digital Innovation Lab in Boston, a facility focused on developing digital services and personalized capabilities that offer an accessible and integrated personal pharmacy and health experience. 

Around the web

The tirzepatide shortage that first began in 2022 has been resolved. Drug companies distributing compounded versions of the popular drug now have two to three more months to distribute their remaining supply.

The 24 members of the House Task Force on AI—12 reps from each party—have posted a 253-page report detailing their bipartisan vision for encouraging innovation while minimizing risks. 

Merck sent Hansoh Pharma, a Chinese biopharmaceutical company, an upfront payment of $112 million to license a new investigational GLP-1 receptor agonist. There could be many more payments to come if certain milestones are met.