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Salesforce.com Dips Its Toe Into Electronic Medical Records

This is a section of the All Things Digital Web site featuring posts from around the Web, from other Dow Jones properties and also original pieces we solicit. The section is now explicitly labeled that it comes "from other Web sites." We are fully ...

From JACOB GOLDSTEIN, Voices | All Things Digital,  5 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Dow Jones,  Wall Street Journal

J&J Drug, On Hold in U.S., Wins Approval in Europe

WSJ’s blog on health and the business of health. The latest indication that it’s easier to get a drug onto the market in Europe than in the U.S. these days: European regulators approved a Johnson & Johnson drug to treat serious cases of psoriasis ...

From JACOB GOLDSTEIN, Wall Street Journal,  22 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Food and Drug Administration,  Johnson & Johnson,  Sanofi-Aventis,  Wall Street Journal

Venture-Capital Losses Nick UnitedHealth

WSJ’s blog on health and the business of health. We knew UnitedHealth paid $350 million in the fourth quarter to settle lawsuits over out-of-network reimbursements. But the company’s earnings announcement, out this morning, brings news of another ...

From JACOB GOLDSTEIN, Wall Street Journal,  22 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Wall Street Journal

Where Should the Money for Primary Care Come From?

Health wonks talk all the time about how we need to spend more money on primary care in this country. But you don’t hear so much about where that money’s going to come from. So the Health Blog was struck by the way Ben Brewer (a primary care doc) ...

From JACOB GOLDSTEIN, Wall Street Journal,  22 Jan 2009

Health Reform Passes! (In China)

WSJ’s blog on health and the business of health. Millions of uninsured, unequal access to care, a pressing need to spend government money to stimulate the economy — China knows all about it. Under a plan passed Wednesday by the State Council, China ...

From JACOB GOLDSTEIN, Wall Street Journal,  22 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Wall Street Journal

Coming Soon: yourdoctorsfinancialties.com

WSJ’s blog on health and the business of health. Some new information recently showed up on the Cleveland Clinic’s online profiles of its doctors. Down there below “Awards & Honors” and “Professional Memberships,” a section called “Industry ...

From JACOB GOLDSTEIN, Wall Street Journal,  22 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Medtronic, Inc.,  Food and Drug Administration,  Wall Street Journal

Pete Stark vs. Doctor-Owned Hospitals

WSJ’s blog on health and the business of health. Pete Stark is taking the fight to doctor-owned hospitals again, tying restrictions on the facilities to the kids’ health bill moving through Congress. This isn’t wildly surprising, given that the ...

From JACOB GOLDSTEIN, Wall Street Journal,  22 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Pete Stark,  Barack Obama,  Wall Street Journal

Polio Fight Gets $630 Million from Gates, Rotary & Governments

WSJ’s blog on health and the business of health. A child receives polio vaccine in Democratic Republic of Congo in 2001. The eradication of smallpox in the late 1970s was one of the great achievements in global public health, and was accomplished in ...

From JACOB GOLDSTEIN, Wall Street Journal,  21 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Bill Gates,  Wall Street Journal

A Simple Surgical Checklist Saves Lives

WSJ’s blog on health and the business of health. Score another victory for the humble checklist. Adopting a surgical safety checklist reduced deaths and complications by more than a third in a study published online by the New England Journal of ...

From JACOB GOLDSTEIN, Wall Street Journal,  15 Jan 2009
Related Topics: World Health Organization,  Peter Pronovost,  Wall Street Journal

Religious Investors Push Companies to Embrace Health Reform

WSJ’s blog on health and the business of health. More than $100 billion worth of investment capital is pushing companies to embrace broad health reform principles — though the principles are so broad that it’s not entirely clear what that embrace ...

From JACOB GOLDSTEIN, Wall Street Journal,  14 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Wall Street Journal

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