http://ntrypoint.com/blog Ntrypoint Media's Blog Sat, 17 Apr 2010 23:44:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last month, we discussed patient-reported outcomes and some potential implications of the final FDA guidance on using patient-reported outcomes to validate claims in medical product labeling. I read an interesting blog article today about Foundation Medicine's plan to genome-sequence every cancer tumor. The blog's author, Trista Morrison, stated: If they can pull it off, this ... http://ntrypoint.com/blog/?p=35 In January, the Food and Drug Administration published its final guidance on the use of patient-reported outcomes (PRO) instruments to support claims in approved medical product labeling. Although the guidance does not address the use of PRO instruments beyond this scope, it does lend itself to some interesting connections and ... http://ntrypoint.com/blog/?p=31 Today, we learned that health reform took one step closer to its goal of expanding health insurance coverage to perhaps 30 million more Americans. Likely the politicians will agree to disagree. There is one thing we need more agreement on: personal responsibility. Whose responsibility is it to eat well, exercise, and ... http://ntrypoint.com/blog/?p=28 While Washington politicians duke it out over healthcare reform and what President Barack Obama called “health insurance” reform in his press conference on Wednesday night, ordinary consumers are cooking up a reform of their own. Young people who graduated this year without job prospects or health insurance and those workers ... http://ntrypoint.com/blog/?p=25 There is no shortage of articles written about how pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device makers supposedly fear the Internet and social media. That's why I am glad to see social media playing an increasing role in patient outreach as evidenced by sites like UC and Crohn's, Novel Patient and PatientsLikeMe. Recent research published ... http://ntrypoint.com/blog/?p=21 Today, we got the results of an online poll we conducted on LinkedIn, a social networking site for professionals seeking to manage and further their careers. When we decided to make healthcare one of our social change focuses, we began brainstorming what type of people would be most interested in ... http://ntrypoint.com/blog/?p=18 Some people are ashamed to admit that they choose generics over name brand drugs. Even worse, dare I say vitamins or drugs altogether! I read an enewsletter article today published by Dr. Kevin Pho in response to this NY Times article written by Alex Williams. The gist is hard times are forcing ... http://ntrypoint.com/blog/?p=7 A new administration is running things in Washington D.C. and its key priorities are reforms in healthcare, education and energy. Already, over $20 billion in economic stimulus has been earmarked for healthcare. Many challenges abound in the current healthcare system. Since 1994, the cost per person of American health care ... http://ntrypoint.com/blog/?p=3