Buzzing on the blogs this week…
- There is much discussion of proposed transparency rules (read the full text here) from The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding “financial relationships between drug and device manufacturers and certain health care providers.” The rule would implement the “Physician Payments Sunshine Act” requirements of the health reform law.
- Nagarathna Manjappa, MD writes about practicing doctors’ relationships with pharma in this piece on Kevin MD, arguing that the industry has a much larger impact on healthcare through other avenues
- There is a new bi-partisan plan to fix healthcare… the NYTimes report is here, or view the full white paper (via @medicallessons).
- For conference coverage, the Pharma Strategy Blog has some posts here and here on the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium and on American Society of Hematology 2011, as does the Biotech Strategy Blog.
- Solving distracted doctoring from smartphones and tablets from KevinMD and a related commentary, Order Interrupted By Text: A Multitasking Mishap from John Halamka, MD MS on WebM&M (via @tbtam), call for education and policies regarding the use of mobile technologies in the medical field.
- An article in the December 12th issue of The New Yorker discussed the power of the placebo effect and reviewed some of the recent scientific findings related to placebos.
- A Man of Badly Encoded Character has a good post (including some excellent comics) entitled How to get a (better) response from your Systems Librarian /Sys Admin / Helpdesk Support Elf