MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'industry health care'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:53:57 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4495208&cid=t_391992_90_f&fid=0&url=http%3A%2F%2Fannietv600.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F02%2F18%2Fce-measure%2F CE Measure is the first peer-reviewed journal dedicated specifically to the art and science of healthcare educational outcomes measurement. Original manuscripts that address outcomes methodologies, results, practice-based protocols, CE conference highlights and abstracts, and case histories will be published to promote vigorous academic scrutiny of this important subject. Sample articles (all available free online): Changing Performance among Practicing Pharmacists through Comprehensive Educational Initiatives Use of Uniform Outcomes Methodologies to Measure Clinical Impact of Large-Scale CME Initiatives Measures of Perceived Self-Efficacy as a Method of Evaluating Educational Outcomes Case Report: Web-Based Commitment-to-Change Evaluation of an Annual CME Conference Taking the Plunge... ANNE T-V's BLOG blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4495208 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 20:19:27 +0100 4495208 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3652418&cid=t_391992_90_f&fid=0&url=http%3A%2F%2Fannietv600.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F06%2F10%2Fcontinuing-medical-education-in-europe-evolution-or-revolution%2F This White Paper was published by MedEd Global Solutions in May, 2010: Continuing Medical Education in Europe: Evolution or Revolution? MedEd Global Solutions, May 2010. Contributors: Eric Jean Desbois, Helios Pardell, Alfonso Negri, Thomas Kellner, Peter Posel, Thomas Kleinoeder, Bernard Maillet, Hervé Maisonneuve CONTENTS i. Introduction and Statement of Need 1.Current Climate and Opportunities in Europe 2. The Impact of CME on Public Health Economy 3. Funding Models of CME and CPD in Europe 4. Identifying Conflict of Interest 5. The Importance, Structuring & Harmonization of CME 6. The Role of the Pharmaceutical Industry in the Continuing Medical Education of Physicians Closing Statement: 10 steps to evolve CME in Europe From the introduction: When we first initiated the writing ... ANNE T-V's BLOG blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3652418 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:24:08 +0100 3652418 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3533847&cid=t_391992_90_f&fid=0&url=http%3A%2F%2Fannietv600.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F05%2F04%2Fcmss-code-2010%2F In April 2010, the Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS) announced the release of the CMSS Code for Interactions with Companies. The code provides detailed guidance to medical specialty societies on appropriate interactions with for-profit companies in the health care sector: Council of Medical Specialty Societies. Code for Interactions with Companies. Chicago: CMSS, 2010  From the press release: The code includes seven core principles and detailed guidance on implementation. The principles cover the following key areas: Conflicts of Interest: Develop and publicly post policies and procedures to disclose and manage conflicts of interest among those who participate in society activities (e.g., medical meetings, clinical practice guidelines, scientific journals). Financial Disclosur... ANNE T-V's BLOG blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3533847 Tue, 04 May 2010 19:48:49 +0100 3533847 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3135513&cid=t_391992_90_f&fid=0&url=http%3A%2F%2Fannietv600.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F01%2F01%2Fcme-articles-academic-medicine-january-2010%2F The January 2010 issue of Academic Medicine contains a number of articles of interest to CME  providers. The publisher is providing some of these these free of charge (for now). RSS feed for this issue Bellande BJ, Winicur ZM, Cox KM.  Commentary: Urgently needed: a safe place for self-assessment on the path to maintaining competence and improving performance. Acad Med. 2010 Jan;85(1):16-8.  PubMed – http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20042814 Camilleri M, Parke DW 2nd. Perspective: Conflict of interest and professional organizations: considerations and recommendations. Acad Med. 2010 Jan;85(1):85-91.  PubMed -  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20042830 Davis DA, Baron RB, Grichnik K, Topulos GP, Agus ZS, Dorman T.  Commentary: CME and its role in the academic medical cent... ANNE T-V's BLOG blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3135513 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:11:06 +0100 3135513 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2712122&cid=t_391992_90_f&fid=0&url=http%3A%2F%2Fannietv600.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F08%2F18%2Fmedical-associations-relationships-industry%2F This article was published in JAMA in April 2009: Rothman DJ, McDonald WJ, Berkowitz CD, Chimonas SC, DeAngelis CD, Hale RW, Nissen SE, Osborn JE, Scully JH Jr, Thomson GE, Wofsy D. Professional medical associations and their relationships with industry: a proposal for controlling conflict of interest. JAMA 2009 Apr 1;301(13):1367-72. Professional medical associations (PMAs) play an essential role in defining and advancing health care standards. Their conferences, continuing medical education courses, practice guidelines, definitions of ethical norms, and public advocacy positions carry great weight with physicians and the public. Because many PMAs receive extensive funding from pharmaceutical and device companies, it is crucial that their guidelines manage both real and perceived conflict... ANNE T-V's BLOG blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2712122 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:47:14 +0100 2712122 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2452384&cid=t_391992_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F0Id0gvZR0s0%2F There’s an old Yiddish saying that, “If my bubba had wheels she’d be a trolley.” So goes the logic of the Obama administration in their paper released yesterday, “The Economic Case for Health Care Reform.” Their claim is that reducing health care costs would help the economy. Yes, if health care costs were reduced it would likely help the economy, though we should remember that the health care industry is part of the economy. There is nothing in Obamacare, however, that will reduce costs. In fact, expanding coverage may cause costs to rise. One study by MIT’s Amy Finkelstein suggests that the prevalence of insurance itself has roughly doubled the cost of health care. So, if Obama succeeds in expanding insurance coverage, it’s very likely to increase the cost... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2452384 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:31:59 +0100 2452384 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2441372&cid=t_391992_90_f&fid=0&url=http%3A%2F%2Fannietv600.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F05%2F25%2Fmerck-elsevier-fake-journal%2F    According to Bob Grant, a blogger for The Scientist,  Merck paid an undisclosed sum to Elsevier to produce several volumes of a publication that had the look of a peer-reviewed medical journal, but contained only reprinted or summarized articles–most of which presented data favorable to Merck products–that appeared to act solely as marketing tools with no disclosure.   Read the full blog post.  (Requires free registration.) The journal in question was the Australasian Journal of Bone & Joint Medicine, an allegedly peer-reviewed journal created primarily to sell Vioxx and Fosamax to physicians. Summer Johnson, PhD, Executive Managing Editor of the American Journal of Bioethics, has written about these “advertorials in her blog: Merck Makes Phony Peer-Review Jo... ANNE T-V's BLOG blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2441372 Mon, 25 May 2009 14:59:33 +0100 2441372 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2424094&cid=t_391992_90_f&fid=0&url=http%3A%2F%2Fannietv600.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F05%2F19%2Fiom-co%2F This article was published online in the New England Journal of Medicine on May 1; free full text is available. Steinbrook R. Controlling Conflict of Interest — Proposals from the Institute of Medicine. N Engl J Med 2009 May 1. (Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG) ANNE T-V's BLOG blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2424094 Tue, 19 May 2009 19:33:20 +0100 2424094 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2416803&cid=t_391992_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FcRUH9mrbSMI%2F Last Monday, when lobbyists for the six biggest health care industry groups joined President Obama to announce their support for reducing health care spending by $2 trillion over 10 years, I penned and voiced my suspicion that the real motivation was to pressure the Congressional Budget Office to assume that Democrats’ health care reforms would reduce spending, despite the lack of evidence.  My wife said that hypothesis sounded a little . . . conspiratorial. Last Thursday, when it was revealed that there was no actual agreement and that the White House basically manipulated the industry to get a week’s worth of good health care press, I started to doubt whether strong-arming the CBO was really the goal of that media stunt.  Then Jonathan Cohn set me straight. In an article fo... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2416803 Mon, 18 May 2009 14:33:50 +0100 2416803 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2414747&cid=t_391992_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fvoum9yQVfCs%2F On Monday, the Obama administration held a well-publicized love-fest with lobbyists for the health care industry.  It turns out that rather than a “game-changer,” the event was a fraud.  And the industry got burned. At the time, President Obama called it a “a watershed event in the long and elusive quest for health care reform“: Over the next 10 years — from 2010 to 2019 — [these industry lobbyists] are pledging to cut the rate of growth of national health care spending by 1.5 percentage points each year — an amount that’s equal to over $2 trillion. By an amazing coincidence, $2 trillion is just enough to pay for Obama’s proposed government takeover of the health care sector. Yet The New York Times reports that isn’t the magnitude of sp... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2414747 Fri, 15 May 2009 17:52:08 +0100 2414747 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2405026&cid=t_391992_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FiW9edJfWvxk%2F Today’s Washington Post has a terrific editorial cartoon about this week’s announcement by President Obama and health care industry lobbyists that they’re all willing to reduce health care spending growth by 1.5 percentage points. (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2405026 Thu, 14 May 2009 13:58:18 +0100 2405026 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2152795&cid=t_391992_90_f&fid=0&url=http%3A%2F%2Fannietv600.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F02%2F02%2Fphysician-pharmaceutical-industry-relationship%2F The following articles are available free online from the CACHE Open Access Library: Steinbrook R. Online disclosure of physician–industry relationships. N Engl J Med 2009;360:325-327. Steiner TJ.  Ethical issues arising from commercial sponsorship and from relationships with the pharmaceutical industry–report and recommendations of the Ethics Subcommittee of the International Headache Society. Cephalalgia 2008 Sep;28 Suppl 3:1-25. Gagnon MA, Lexchin J.  The cost of pushing pills: A new estimate of pharmaceutical promotion expenditures in the United States. PLoS Med 2008 Jan 3;5(1):e1. Fisher JA.  Practicing research ethics: Private-sector physicians & pharmaceutical clinical trials. Soc Sci Med 2008 Jun;66(12):2495-505. Haines IE, Olver IN.  Are self-regulation and declar... ANNE T-V's BLOG blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2152795 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:38:52 +0100 2152795 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2152796&cid=t_391992_90_f&fid=0&url=http%3A%2F%2Fannietv600.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F02%2F02%2Ffunding-of-continuing-health-education-open-access-articles%2F The following articles are available free online from CACHE’s Open Access Library: Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs (CEJA). American Medical Association. Report 1 of The Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs: Industry Support of Professional Education in Medicine.[2008] Mamdani B. The ethics of industry support for professional education in medicine. Indian J Med Ethics 2008 Oct-Dec;5(4):177-80. Sears J. Implementing the Recommendations of the AAMC Task Force on Industry Funding of Medical Education: A Selected Policy Language Compendium. Washington: Association of American Medical Colleges, 2008. Industry Funding of Medical Education: Report of an AAMC Task Force. Washington: Association of American Medical Colleges, 2008. Cervero RM, He J. The Relationship between Commerc... ANNE T-V's BLOG blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2152796 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:32:43 +0100 2152796 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1064812&cid=t_391992_90_f&fid=34499&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcalifmedicineman.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F11%2Fdrug-companies-and-their-big-marketing.html (Source: California Medicine Man) California Medicine Man blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1064812 Sun, 02 Dec 2007 23:40:00 +0100 1064812