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Longevity Industry Whitepapers from the Aging Analytics Agency
The Longevity International project of the Aging Analytics Agency arises from the Biogerontology Research Foundation / Deep Knowledge Ventures portion of our growing community. The various companies and non-profit initiatives associated with this part of the community - such as In Silico Medicine and the International Aging Research Portfolio - share a focus on data. Those involved are now possessed of quite a lot of information about funding, technologies, and just who is doing what in the research community and market of young biotechnology companies. Thus the Aging Analytics Agency is a consultancy that aims to put to u...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 23, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
A Sort of Medical Vacation
I can ' t drive for the next three weeks - until November 8. I was concerned about all the doctor appointments I booked for myself after this week ' s surgery follow up when I thought I would be given permission to drive again.Then I got a bright idea. I am going to take a ' medical vacation ' and not go to the doctor until after my next surgical follow up. I mean why not? A mental medical vacation is a great thing to do several times a year. I was talking to a friend who ' s husband had gone through colon cancer. She talked about having a week off as being a sorely wanted break. I want three weeks off. Because I am whiney...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - October 18, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: doctor appointments stress vacation Source Type: blogs
The CHRONIC Care Act Passes Senate, Obstacles Remain
Late last Tuesday night, only hours after Republican leaders announced they were pulling the Graham-Cassidy repeal and replace bill from Senate consideration, the body unanimously passed the Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic (CHRONIC) Care Act of 2017 (the Act).
Aiming to improve care for seniors with chronic conditions, the Act first passed the Senate Finance Committee in May of this year. A Health Affairs blog post by former Senators Tom Daschle and Bill Frist, along with in-depth analysis from the Bipartisan Policy Committee, helpfully outline the need for a bipartisan effort to add...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - October 5, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Billy Wynne Tags: Costs and Spending Insurance and Coverage Medicaid and CHIP Medicare Organization and Delivery ACA ACO bipartisanship chronic CHRONIC Care Act dual eligibles Long-Term Care Medicare Advantage Telehealth Source Type: blogs
Senate Passes a Pentagon Budget, but a BCA Trainwreck Looms
By a vote of 89-8, the Senate yesterdaypassed a $700 billion defense budget. That isn ’t particularly newsworthy. AstheNew York Times reported, “The vote marked the 56th consecutive year that Congress has passed the defense policy bill—a point of personal pride for Senator John McCain, the Arizona Republican who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee.”The important story is that Sen. McCain et al. have no plan for actually raising the necessary funds, either through more taxes, cuts elsewhere, or more debt. Previous budget fights played by the rules —compromising to abide by the bipartisan Budget Control Act ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 19, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Christopher A. Preble Source Type: blogs
Caution Warranted As VA Incorporates ICER Value Assessments Into Formulary Management Process
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Pharmacy Benefits Management Services and the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) recently announced a collaboration in which the VA will use the ICER’s drug assessments as part of its formulary development and price negotiations. This type of relationship might be normal outside of the United States (for example, in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Australia), where input from governmental health technology assessment organizations is used in determining health care coverage decisions. However, in the United States—with our multipayer health care system coverin...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 18, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Robert Dubois Tags: Costs and Spending Drugs and Medical Innovation Insurance and Coverage Payment Policy Population Health Department of Veterans Affairs drug pricing Institute for Clinical and Economic Review pharmaceuticals quality of care Veterans' He Source Type: blogs
Why Doctors should read books by Nassim Taleb
By SAURABH JHA, MD
“There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method”
Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Asymmetry of Error
During the Ebola epidemic calls to ban flights from Africa from some quarters were met by accusations of racism from other quarters. Experts claimed that Americans were at greater risk of dying from cancer than Ebola, and if they must fret they should fret more about cancer than Ebola. One expert, with a straight Gaussian face, went as far as saying that even hospitals were more dangerous than Ebola. Pop science reached an unprecedented fizz.
Trader and mathem...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 12, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: at RogueRad Tags: Economics The Business of Health Care Source Type: blogs
Why Doctors (And Everybody Else) Should Read Books by Nassim Taleb
By SAURABH JHA, MD
“There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method” – Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Asymmetry of Error
During the Ebola epidemic calls to ban flights from Africa from some quarters were met by accusations of racism from other quarters. Experts claimed that Americans were at greater risk of dying from cancer than Ebola, and if they must fret they should fret more about cancer than Ebola. One expert, with a straight Gaussian face, went as far as saying that even hospitals were more dangerous than Ebola. Pop science reached an unprecedented fizz.
Trader and mathematicia...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 12, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: at RogueRad Tags: Economics The Business of Health Care Source Type: blogs
Deans Need Progressive Responsibility Too
Dr. Antman and her family at the 2016 American Heart Association Boston Heart & Stroke Gala
Editor’s Note: This blog post complements the recently published study “The Decanal Divide: Women in Decanal Roles at U.S. Medical Schools.” Read the full study on academicmedicine.org.
By: Karen Antman, MD
Dr. Antman is dean, Boston University School of Medicine, provost, Boston University Medical Campus, and chair, AAMC Council of Deans
Why aren’t more medical school deans women? Medical school faculty don’t normally wake up thinking, “I want to be dean.” How then does one end up there? I was asked to...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - September 12, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective AAMC Council of Deans Boston University Medical Campus Boston University School of Medicine gender leadership research women Source Type: blogs
Should Value Frameworks Take A ‘ Societal Perspective ’ ?
Editor’s note: One of the authors of this post, Peter Neumann, will be discussing issues related to the post at a Health Affairs September 13 event, “Understanding The Value of Innovations In Medicine.”
In 1996, the U.S. Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine recommended that analysts conducting cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs) should perform a reference case analysis, following a set of standard methodological practices to improve comparability and quality. They further recommended that such analyses assume a societal perspective, reflecting the perspective of a decision maker allocating resourc...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 6, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Peter J. Neumann and Sachin Kamal-Bahl Tags: Costs and Spending Drugs and Medical Innovation Quality 2nd Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine Source Type: blogs
Making Smoking Cessation Work For People With Mental Illnesses And Other Vulnerable Populations
The prevalence of cigarette smoking among adults is now at a modern low of 15 percent, and youth rates are also down for high school seniors, with only 3.4 percent smoking daily. Yet this is not a time to become complacent and move on to other public health problems. As many as 40 million people still smoke, and half of them will die prematurely as a result. Furthermore, smoking rates remain high among the most vulnerable populations, such as people with mental illnesses or substance use disorders, necessitating policies and strategies targeted specifically at them, as well as support for tobacco control at the federal, st...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - August 23, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Steven Schroeder Tags: Featured Health Equity Population Health Public Health Behavioral Health Mental Illness smoking cessation Substance Use Disorders vulnerable populations Source Type: blogs
Health Care Non-Profit Organizations Ignored Conflicts of Interest or Potential Corruption Generated by Mar a Lago Fundraisers, But Drew the Line at Supporting Nazi Sympathizers
Leaders of big health care organizations have long made excuses for rampantconflicts of interest in health care. Usually, their rationales included something about the need to collaborate with industry to spark innovation. However, some leaders may have been directly benefiting from such conflicts (e.g., academic leaders on the payrolls of drug, device and biotechnology firms, even on the firms 'boards). Others may not have been, but were making millions in the current system, so why rock the boat? Meanwhile, the risks these conflicts posed ofhealth care corruption were not a subject of polite conve...
Source: Health Care Renewal - August 20, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: Cleveland Clinic conflicts of interest Donald Trump health care corruption Source Type: blogs
The Skinny On The Senate ACA Debate, Day Three
Editor’s note: This post is part of ongoing Health Affairs Blog coverage by Tim Jost of the Senate debate over repealing and replacing—or maybe just repealing, or maybe just minimally repealing, or maybe retaining—the Affordable Care Act. See Tim’s earlier post and updates for more coverage.
Update: Medicare-for-All And Abortion
At about 2:30, the Senate voted on an amendment put forward by Senator Daines (R MT) incorporating the House Medicare-for-All bill. His intent was to embarrass and perhaps divide the Democrats by forcing them to vote on a proposal that some of them embrace, but some do not. In fact,...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - July 27, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Timothy Jost Tags: Costs and Spending Following the ACA Insurance and Coverage 1332 waivers Congressional Budget Office employer mandate individual mandate medical device tax skinny ACA repeal Source Type: blogs
We Need To Raise The Bar To Improve Cancer Treatments. What ’s The Best Way To Do It?
Over the past 20 years, we have witnessed an unprecedented development of new life-science technologies. Although clinical outcomes have also improved, the benefits often remain out of reach for many patients. Translating scientific and technological gains into clinically meaningful outcomes that are accessible and affordable to all who need them is one of the great challenges of our time.
Several prominent voices have called on the field to “raise the bar” and aim higher in research efforts, to measurably and meaningfully lengthen and improve patients’ lives. The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), for exa...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - July 26, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Jacqueline Zummo Tags: Drugs and Medical Innovation clinical trials Source Type: blogs
Senate GOP Wins Vote To Debate Health Care, Then Loses Vote On ACA Replacement Bill
On July 25, 2017, the United States Senate began its long-awaited debate on repealing the Affordable Care Act. At around 2 in the afternoon, Senate Majority Leader McConnell called up a motion to proceed on consideration of the American Health Care Act, which the House of Representatives had passed on May 4, with a 217 to 213 vote. A motion to proceed on a budget reconciliation bill needs only to pass by a bare majority, but the Republicans hold only 52 of the chamber’s 100 votes, and Republican Senators Collins (ME) and Murkowski (AK) voted against proceeding.
What’s Happened So Far
There was high drama as Senator McC...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - July 26, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Timothy Jost Tags: Following the ACA Insurance and Coverage abortion coverage ACA repeal and replace employer mandate individual mandate Planned Parenthood Source Type: blogs
Orphan Diseases Or Population Health? Policy Choices Drive Venture Capital Investments
The US exhibits a remarkable pipeline of biopharmaceutical innovation, with 170 new drugs and biologics launched into the market between 2011 and 2015 and another 22 drugs approved in 2016. A striking feature of the pharmaceutical pipeline is the large percentage launched for the treatment of small “orphan” indications, defined by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as including fewer than, often many fewer than, 200,000 patients in the United States. Almost half (74) of the products approved by the FDA between 2011 and 2015 were for orphan indications, twice the number (36) approved during the same period by the Eu...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - July 21, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Dayton Misfeldt and James C. Robinson Tags: Costs and Spending Drugs and Medical Innovation Orphan Drug Act orphan drugs venture capitalism Source Type: blogs
