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- Will health IT push back against populist Luddism?
- Health IT is being scapegoated here, on a partisan basis, and as much as the industry may want to be non-partisan or bi-partisan, its goals may not be met unless it starts to push back hard. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Information Technology, Health Care, Health IT, Liberals, HIMSS, AdvaMed, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-02-10
- Prevention killing the health care system
- In all the debates about health care inflation the core problem is not being addressed. Ben Franklin said an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and catching disease before it spreads does cut the cost of treatment. The problem is the cost...
- Tags: Problem, Health Care, AdvaMed, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- AdvaMed says of health care inflation, not me
- We have reached the stage in the health care debate where everyone is pointing the blame, and pointing it elsewhere. It's like the Family Circus Not Me. Who did it, Billy? Not me. In this case the Not Me is a study, from AdvaMed,...
- Tags: Device Manufacturer, Insurance Company, Health Care, Inflation, AdvaMed, General Device Inflation, Insurance, Government, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Regulations, Benefits, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
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- Will vendors now boycott Massachusetts?
- Will vendors now boycott Massachusetts?Medical device development in MassachusettsSpeaking as a member of the orthopedic medical device industry, it is our hope that the regulatory process will allow input from industry to develop reasonable disclosure guidelines without stifling activities that are beneficial to Massachusetts healthcare consumers. Below is an abbreviated...
- Tags: health care, manufacturer, medical device, medical device industry, S. 2863
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Time to overhaul grandfather's FDA approval process?
- In February the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in Riegel vs. Medtronic, that the FDA's authority to approve medical devices means states, and their courts, have no recourse when something goes wrong. At a stroke this pre-emption ruling eliminated medical device product liability. Once the FDA approves a...
- Tags: FDA, Medical Device, Recourse, Federal Government, Healthcare, Government, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Medical companies celebrate death of patent reform
- Medical device makers and drug companies are celebrating the apparent death of the 2008 Patent Reform Act. (For the other side of this debate, visit my open source blog.) Why were AdvaMed, PHRMA, and the rest of the industry so dead-against an end to...
- Tags: Dana Blankenhorn, Drugs, Patent, Patent Approval
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Cry wolf on everything?
- Patient Access To Durable Medical Equipment May Be Threatened By Competitive Acquisition Program. That's the headline on a recent press release from AdvaMed, the medical device industry lobby. In it, President Stephen Ubl right complains that if Medicare and Medicaid go forward on competitive...
- Tags: Patient, Matter, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- What price disclosures deliver is transparency
- A new think tank study dismisses a proposal from Iowa Republican Charles Grassley to require disclosure of medical device pricing. (Picture from the PiperReport.) The hit piece was commissioned by AdvaMed, the device industry trade group, and claimed that there is little market competition, that search costs are...
- Tags: Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
- Vendors confront comparative effectiveness threat
- Health care vendors are beginning to react to the vogue for comparative effectiveness, and they're alarmed. The Advanced Medical Technologies Association has issued its first press releases and newspaper commentaries against CE, calling it cookie-cutter medicine which will deny patients the care they deserve. ...
- Tags: Aide, Patient, Health Care, Advanced Medical Technologies Association, Stephen J. Ubl, Ubl, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-04
- The state of play in patent reform
- The state of play in patent reformMore from the frontMedical device makers, represented by AdvaMed, are also against the current patent reform effort. One paid for a full-page ad in the NY Times detailing their "concerns."Techdirt fisked ithttp://techdirt.com/articles/20071010/183753.shtmlNo friends.This is a good observation:"Because this is an issue between industries you...
- Tags: Eolas Technologies Inc., ideology, IP, IP Innovation, Nothing, patent
- Discussion threads 2007-10-13
- Will U.S. retain medical technology edge?
- The flip side of our high cost medical establishment is the opportunity it affords to entrepreneurs. (Animated .gif from HSCC Ltd. of Noida, near Delhi in India.) America has a lot of medical entrepreneurs, who are inspirations to their colleagues around the world. What's...
- Tags: U.S., India, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Recruitment & Selection, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-05
- Who will trust Microsoft HealthVault?
- As we hinted at last week Microsoft has dropped the second part of its health care strategy, an electronic medical record system called HealthVault, on a waiting world. Is it going to be another Windows 95? Or another Bob? This is not down to...
- Tags: Health Care, Microsoft Corp., E-health, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Microsoft Windows 95, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-04
- Today's Debate: Is the cost villain really tech?
- Was it something I said? All of a sudden medical device makers are feeling some serious heat. As the AdvaMed meetings in Washington moved yesterday from the trade show to the issues conference, a lot of people were getting quite defensive. "You might hear...
- Tags: Benefits, Dana Blankenhorn, Enterprise Software, Health Care, Healthcare, Human Resources, Paperwork, Pill, Software, Vertical Industries
- Blog posts 2007-10-04
- Today's Debate: The cost-growth conflict in health care technology
- One of the most frustrating arguments I hear regarding open source and open spectrum is the claim by Bell-heads that the government is making big money from spectrum auctions, that unless the Bells maintain absolute control over what we can do with "their" spectrum they won't pay as much in...
- Tags: Health Care, Spectrum, Argument, Vertical Industries, Government, Benefits, Healthcare, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-03
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