All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Business of Medicine
Posted May 12, 2008
Merck Receives Not Approvable Letter from FDA for MK-0524A (ER niacin/laropiprant)
Analysis of: Merck Receives Not Approvable Letter from FDA for MK-0524A (ER niacin/laropiprant) | www.pipelinereview.com
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
Analysis of: Merck Receives Not Approvable Letter from FDA for MK-0524A (ER niacin/laropiprant) | www.pipelinereview.com
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
Meerck at this point has no major Cardiovascular contentender without issue. This is clearly bad for the company.
Posted May 12, 2008
Medicare PHR Pilot is Underway in South Carolina
Analysis of: Medicare PHR Pilot is Underway in South Carolina | www.govhealthit.com
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
Analysis of: Medicare PHR Pilot is Underway in South Carolina | www.govhealthit.com
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
Medicare has launched a pilot online personal health records program in South Carolina. This programs provides thousands of Medicare beneficiaries access to personal health records (PHRs) containing their hospital and physician claims information. Although information on their prescription...
Posted May 9, 2008
Lawmakers Fault FDA on Heparin
Analysis of: Lawmakers Fault FDA on Heparin | online.wsj.com
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
Analysis of: Lawmakers Fault FDA on Heparin | online.wsj.com
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
Issue: Risk of fraud motivated contamination, and vendor quality failures, could and should have been seen long in advance, and nearly every drug and device faces this threat. Outsourcing Managers have been entirely cost driven, without exercising adequate management of supply chain...
Posted May 8, 2008
Physician report card validity
Analysis of: Physician report card validity | physiciansnews.com
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
Analysis of: Physician report card validity | physiciansnews.com
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
Physician ranking systems will certainly be a part of medical practice. But the real utility is not going to be in allowing patients to choose the "best" doctors--that will perpetuate the fallacy of drawing conclusions about a specific case from the general data. And the ability of this information...
Posted May 8, 2008
Physician report card validity
Analysis of: Physician report card validity | physiciansnews.com
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
Analysis of: Physician report card validity | physiciansnews.com
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
Ranking doctors and hospitals will certainly move the most profitable patients able to afford commercial health insurance AND travel. Medical Providers who help set their (local) standards to affect real outcomes reporting regular consumers can understand will increase their market share. ...
Posted May 8, 2008Analysis of Wal-Mart's Generics Plan
Analysis of: Wal-Mart expands low-price drug program | ap.google.com
Author: Adam Fein, Founder & President Pembroke Consulting Inc
Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) latest expansion of its generic drug program represents more of the same despite the company's promise on Friday to make a “major health care announcement.” Nonetheless, the company’s latest comments shed additional light on the true economics of the program. Here are some high...
Posted May 6, 2008
Esperion Therapeutics Completes $22.75 M Series A Financing
Analysis of: Esperion Therapeutics Completes $22.75 M Series A Financing | www.pipelinereview.com
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
Analysis of: Esperion Therapeutics Completes $22.75 M Series A Financing | www.pipelinereview.com
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
Pfizer attempts to leverage their original purchase by a sale of assets and retention of portions of the Esperion assets. They appear to be retaining a portion of the research of the company while divesting the remaining technology. They are keeping a small equity position in Esperion...
Posted May 2, 2008
Federal Healthcare Agencies Gear Up for NHIN Trials
Analysis of: Federal Healthcare Agencies Gear Up for NHIN Trials | www.healthcareitnews.com
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
Analysis of: Federal Healthcare Agencies Gear Up for NHIN Trials | www.healthcareitnews.com
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
For decades, the Holy Grail for those pushing electronic health information technologies has been the ability to produce for physicians and other caregivers at the point of care complete information about patients from all sources to facilitate intelligent decision making. ...
Posted May 1, 2008
FDA Embarks on Major Hiring Initiative for its Public Health Mission
Analysis of: FDA Embarks on Major Hiring Initiative for its Public Health Mission | pharmalive.com
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
Analysis of: FDA Embarks on Major Hiring Initiative for its Public Health Mission | pharmalive.com
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
In this publications there is am implication that the FDA will approve things faster as the FDA will after hiring so many people with fancy science backgrounds. This might be true but it probably won't be the case.
Posted May 1, 2008Risks when Politicians Tackle Supply Chain Security
Analysis of: Lawmakers Fault FDA on Heparin | online.wsj.com
Author: Adam Fein, Founder & President Pembroke Consulting Inc
The Heparin contamination has pushed the security of America’s pharmaceutical supply chain to the forefront of the news. I’m not yet sure how politician’s newfound involvement in the topic will play out. America needs to harmonize its own internal standards for the pharmaceutical supply chain, but politicians’...
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