The acquisition contains a lot of technology solutions here, if not almost all technology solutions with those algorithms. I guess we are beginning to see this focused everywhere today with modeling physician performance adding additional compensation for the business models. In the text...
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Fighting skin cancer and finding the targets for drug development is not an easy task and UCLA released their recent findings on how they are working to find solutions for cancers that become resistant after a period of time. As you can read further in the press release, one experimental drug offered...
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The McKesson website has provided a video with both sides discussing the use of evidence based medicine and access to cancer drugs. We are talking web services and information for cancer treatments. It is bringing a lot of information under one website to give support to doctors and patients...
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The point of the personal health records is to benefit the patient and the prime example he points to here are those with cancer or chronic diseases. Dr. David Brailer also talks about the slow process of getting their records together without a PHR. As a reminder I have a full section...
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Back in February of this year United Healthcare sent a report out to Oncologists across the country with a small study relative to following procedures and rules and added some cost analysis. After reading this article in the New York Times there seem to be some open lines of communication and...
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NEW CENTER PROVIDING INTEGRATIVE ONCOLOGY CARE OPENS AT UCLA’S JONSSON COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER This looks to be a great idea with family interests and help involved as well as the patient. In just looking around the website, there seems to be everything from supplements to community groups...
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The UK continues to say “no” to cancer drugs due to price. If you stop and look at the prices for cancer drugs, something along the line here is going to need to balance soon. It is great and wonderful to have the R and D and great breakthroughs that are occurring almost daily, but what good does...
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If you want to do some reading up on the topic, this site may offer some help, along with the upcoming conference to be held here in the Los Angeles area in October. As posted recently there are plans for many of the service companies, such as 23andMe , Navigenics , DeCode, LabCorp , and perhaps...
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