Headlines: Britain Streamlines Patient Safety Agencies
FALLS CHURCH – Top headlines from Noblis Health Innovation for Monday, July 26, compiled daily. Click on the underlined item for the actual story:
- Britain Streamlines Patient Safety Agencies: Health watchdogs are to be tamed in move to ease overlap of bureaucratic agencies.
- VA easing rules for users of medical marijuana: The New York Times reports that the Department of Veterans Affairs system will formally allow veterans to use the drug in states where it is legal, though they will not prescribe it.
- Sustainability threatens HIEs even as their numbers increase: Finding a durable business model to keep afloat financially is one of the biggest challenges facing health information exchanges as the federal and state grants that funded their start up and early development expire.
- V.C. firms bullish on health IT: Information Week reports “new figures from Dow Jones VentureSource show that venture capital investors poured $157 million into U.S. based medical software and information services companies in the second quarter of 2010 compared with $82 million during the same quarter of last year — a 91 percent increase.”
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