Health Care Insights | Weekly Round Up

Health Care Insights brings you your weekly healthcare round up. Below you will find relevant articles on key industry topics that we thought our readers would benefit from - enjoy.


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How The Upcoming Elections Might Shift The National Health Care Landscape
Here’s a solid prediction about next Tuesday’s elections: They’ll be crucial to the future of universal health care in America — or at least its near-term future.

Health Care Catches Data Fever
The United States is arguably in the midst of a health care crisis, but there is hope on the horizon and it involves learning how to make sense of big data. Over at Communications of the ACM, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) shares how it is helping the health care industry benefit from patient data using the power of graph computing.

CFOs Feel Powerless When It Comes To Managing Healthcare Costs, Poll Finds
With U.S. enterprises spending more than $620 billion each year on healthcare costs, and nearly half of all Americans receiving their coverage through their employer, it’s no surprise that four out of five chief financial officers (CFOs) across all industries are feeling the pressure. In fact, nearly all CFOs (97%) believe that employers must “step-up” to the plate to help fix the broken healthcare system.

Omidria™ Granted Pass-Through Reimbursement Status from CMS
Omeros Corporation (NASDAQ: OMER) announced today that it has received transitional pass-through status for its lead product Omidria™ (phenylephrine and ketorolac injection) 1%/0.3% from the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the federal agency that administers the Medicare program.

Health Groups Aim to Grow Pharmacists’ Care Delivery
Community Care of North Carolina (CCNC), GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), and the University of North Carolina (UNC) Eshelman School of Pharmacy have collaborated to generate new approaches to care delivery through pharmacists that will lower medical costs and improve health outcomes.

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