Prof. Dr. Dr. von Eiff zum neuen Fokus "Hospital Management and Health Services" an der HHL – Video

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Prof. Dr. Dr. Wilfried von Eiff, Akademischer Direktor des Center for Health Care Management Regulation zum neuen Fokus "Hospital Management and Health Ser...

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Health care transition pains coast

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While local providers are upbeat, there is no avoiding the fact that the Affordable Care Act is having profound effects on rural health care, from patients to hospitals, especially on the Mendocino Coast.

But the ACA is not creating all the challenges, as representatives from Mendocino Coast District Hospital and Mendocino Coast Clinics made clear at a public health care forum hosted by the League of Women Voters of Mendocino County on Feb. 11 in Caspar. What they describe is a system being rapidly transformed by demographic, economic and policy changes that has everyone scrambling to understand and adjust to a new world of domestic health care even as the ACA is rolled out in California.

There is general agreement that many factors contribute to the current health care system turmoil. The question is, is the ACA the solution?

Doctors getting older, patients getting sicker

Wayne Allen, chief financial officer and interim CEO of Mendocino Coast District Hospital, presented data showing that our current system is broken.

Almost one quarter, (24.7 percent), of physicians nationally are 60 years old or older. In California the figure is slightly higher, at 29.2 percent. But at MCDH, 61.5 percent of the doctors are in that age group.

Meanwhile, the incidence of chronic diseases is increasing. Worse, a lot of patients with these illnesses are here. From 44 to 49 percent of adults in Mendocino County have one or more chronic illnesses, according to a California Health Care Foundation graphic that Allen displayed.

Then there are costs.

Nine percent of Americans were enrolled in Medicare in 1965. In 2011, that number increased to 16 percent. We also spend four times as much treating persons over 80 years of age compared to the U.K., Germany, Sweden and Spain.

Yet, in a country that spends so much on health care, 47 percent of Americans were uninsured in 2013. The number is attributable to rising costs to treat the sick and a recession that combined to put health insurance out of reach for many.

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Health-care deal sent to AG amid cost concerns

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By Andy Metzger

State House News Service

BOSTON -- A proposed hospital acquisition by the state's largest private employer, Partners Health Care, was referred Wednesday to Attorney General Martha Coakley as the state agency overseeing the health-care market determined it would increase health spending, reduce competition and result in increased premiums.

The final report by the Health Policy Commission puts Partners' acquisition of South Shore Hospital and Harbor Medical Associates into a 30-day holding period before the Weymouth institution can join Massachusetts General Hospital, McLean and Brigham and Women's hospitals in the Partners organization.

The commission voted unanimously. Through a spokesman, Coakley's office said it had no comment.

Commission Chairman Stuart Altman said Coakley can block the merger, an action the hospitals could overturn in court, and he raised the specter of anti-trust action.

"Don't rule out the Justice Department. This is also a federal anti-trust law. So there's a state anti-trust law, and then there's a federal anti-trust law," Altman told reporters after the meeting.

HPC director of policy for market performance Karen Tseng said the merger would cause a $23 million increase in total medical expenses, cost the three largest health-care payers an additional $15.8 million, and said a shift in referrals will result in increases of $7.4 million to $10.6 million. On the other hand, according to Tseng, the merger's efficiencies would result in savings of $6.6 million.

She said Partners had made "unsubstantiated" claims of greater savings, some of which were "inconsistent with objective data."

"As groups get bigger they have used their power of bigness to generate higher rates," Altman said. He said, "Our goal is to get total medical expenditures down."

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Dr. Max Gomez: Gene Therapy Could Be Lifesaver For Cancer Patients

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NEW YORK(CBSNewYork) It has been called the cancer breakthrough of the year by a major scientific journal.

Therapy that eradicates cancer using a patients own cells has already saved a number of terminal leukemia patients, CBS 2s Dr. Max Gomez reported.

It has been the Holy Grail of cancer therapy and it harnesses the patients own immune system to attack cancer.

Now, a major new study has shown how to do that when treating leukemia. It involves using gene therapy to convert a patients white blood cells into killers.

Ive had several doctors tell me there is nothing else that can be done, leukemia patient Paolo Cavalli said, It is difficult with a new family to think about those things.

After six years of chemotherapy, stem cell transplants, and multiple relapses Cavalli was out of options for his leukemia.

I dont think I had many days left, he said.

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Super-Brain, Super-Human: Future of Health Care – Futurist Keynote Lecture on MedTech – Video

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SAE International Announces Wednesday and Thursday Keynote Speakers for 2014 World Congress

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Warrendale, PA (PRWEB) February 19, 2014

An industry futurist and a trend-setting publisher will serve as keynote speakers during the SAE 2014 World Congress & Exhibition, which will be held April 8-10 at Cobo Center in Detroit, Mich.

Hyundai will serve as Host Company, and Tier One Strategic Partner for the event is Delphi. With a theme of Creating New Possibilities, the SAE 2014 World Congress assembles the best talent in the automotive industry; experts, management teams, engineers, and executives alike gather to collaborate and address these current challenges, celebrate evolution and achievement over the last 100+ years, and promote the multitude of opportunities fundamental for a successful future.

Wed., April 9, 2014 AVL Technology Leadership Center 9:00- 9:45 a.m.

Dr. Peter Phelps, Senior Research/Futurist with the Institute for Mobility Research, BMW Group, will present "Mobility: Future Market, or End of Growth?"

For more than a century, intercity rail, public transport and the mass production of cars has strongly supported economic growth and continuously rising sub-urbanization. Transportation has pushed industrial development all around the world. Mobility has become a necessity to handle everyday life. Yet, while developing countries have just recently entered the period of fast mobility growth, in many industrialized countries one can find evidence for stagnating passenger travel, especially driven by changing car usage. Next to economic factors, explanations point to demographic development or increasing multi-modal mobility patterns of young adults.

What does this mean for the future? Must industrialized countries like the US or Germany cope with stagnating mobility development? Which mobility path will subsequent developing countries (such as BRIC - Brazil, Russia, India, China) follow in the future? Based on international research initiated by the Institute for Mobility Research (ifmo), this keynote address will answer the above questions and conclude new possibilities for the future mobility market.

Thursday, April 10, 2014 AVL Technology Leadership Center 9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Myles Kovacs, President/Co-Founder, DUB Magazine

Kovacs is a leading voice of the influential, trend-setting youth segment. He connects with young consumers through America's influencers-entertainers, media, hot- product designers and mainstream corporations-and through his cornerstone asset, DUB magazine.

Kovacs has propelled DUB Publishing Inc. and its family of companies into an annual $50 million-plus business. He has partnered with such organizations as Best Buy, Chrysler, Energizer, General Motors, Ford, Microsoft, Mobil 1, NASCAR, Procter & Gamble and Wal-Mart, targeting the youth market, and is now the executive producer of two new TV series "The DUB Magazine Project" on MTV2 and "DUB Latino" on mun2. Newsweek named Kovacs one of the nation's "10 Big Thinkers for Big Business in the 21st Century."

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Up next for care hacking startups: Transforming data into action

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Digital health futurist Fard Johnmar has a great way of describing the movement under way in consumer health engagement he calls it care hacking.

In a Wednesday webinar hosted by personal health record startup Dossia, Fard described how consumers turning to the web and other digital sources (like apps or personal health records) to guide their own care or someone elses could revolutionize the healthcare industry.

Johnmar, who runs a consultancy called Enspektos LLC and co-wrote a book called ePatient 2015: 15 Surprising Trends Changing Health Care, said that leveraging the care hacking movement to its full potential requires a three-step approach for the healthcare industry: Gathering patient data, extracting insights from it and using the insights to deploy personalized interventions.

While some startups like Ginger.io and Validics have garnered a lot of attention in this space, most startups dont have the resources needed to address all three of those layers, he said.

A lot of companies are trying to conquer pieces of it, he explained. There are challenges with interoperability and from the funding perspective [] and also not having linkages to institutions or payers that will allow them to leverage their data sets.

But because employers and payers are now aggressively thinking about consumer engagement, there are still plenty of opportunities for startups: One strategy is to get acquired; thats where I see things going in the short-term, he said.

He equated the near future of this market to whats happening in the wearable device market, where a transition is occurring from a bunch of devices that do slightly different things to a push for more comprehensive devices that can collect multiple kinds of data at once. Similarly, different pieces of the care hacking trifecta data collection, insight and intervention will come together to create more comprehensive solutions.

Industry analysts, too, have predicted more digital health M&A this year, as venture funding for the sector reached its highest level yet last year.One example that thats already starting to happen is UnitedHealths buying a majority stake in Audax Health, which works with insurers to provide a wellness and rewards platform to members. Welltok hasnt been acquired, but it did strike a partnership with IBMs Watson Business Group to use Watsons cognitive computing intelligence in its CafeWell platform. It also received an investment from the company as part of a $22.1 million Series C. Welltok works with payers, health systems and ACOs to provide personalized health and wellness content to their members.

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