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Weekly News Roundup

Holly Scott with a her summary of everything MedTech including Johnson & Johnson MedTech , 美敦力 , 波科 , Akura Medical and much more!

Simon Jenkinson on his top choice articles on regards to #health, #fitness, and #technology in this article

MedTech Noteworthy Posts

Joe Mullings quick thoughts on disruptor companies and products. Create it in a way that someone would have to be insane to copy. More can be found here.

Bertalan Meskó, MD, PhD with a fascinating post on Intuitive 's da Vinci Surgical System "imitation learning". Watch the video here.

"The researchers fed their model hundreds of videos recorded from wrist cameras placed on the arms of da Vinci robots during surgical procedures. These videos, recorded by surgeons all over the world, are used for post-operative analysis and then archived. Nearly 7,000 da Vinci robots are used worldwide, and more than 50,000 surgeons are trained on the system, creating a large archive of data for robots to "imitate."

Obesity, CGM and GLP-1

Nature cover's How ‘miracle’ weight-loss drugs will change the world in this paper. Highly recommend a read of this one.

益普索 is covering more on GLP-1 in an upcoming online event - How GLP-1 will change the game for food and beverage, retail, travel, and beyond on November 20. Kristopher Hull

Naomi Kresge covers 诺和诺德 developing obesity drug that appears to be the most dramatic weight loss yet in this post.

More can be found in this Quartz article - A new stronger Ozempic is coming.

Ted Kyle just dropping a great deal of knowledge in his articles from ObesityWeek 2024 - Chronic Care for This Chronic Disease Is Compelling and Obesity-Related Heart Deaths More Than Doubled Since 1999

Courtney Younglove, M.D., FOMA, FACOG, DABOM review of CGM and Ozempic and Wegovy on their availability.

Michael Albert MD on the compounded GLP-1 and the regulatory environment.

Informative advice from Christo B. Vermeulen RPh, MBA - watch your sugar in take for your baby and toddler.

Medical Upcoding, CMS Rate Cuts, Failures of Hospital Transparency, and Waste

Chris Deacon Review of ethical concerns with medical coding by those who actually perform the work including (1) Manipulation of Risk Scores: 7% of respondents acknowledged accusations of manipulating risk (2) Upcoding as a Major Ethical Concern: 90% flagged “upcoding” (3) Pressure to Commit Fraud: 18% said they’ve felt pressured by employers (4) Concerns Over Social Determinants Coding: 69% worry that coding for social factors

Stacy Mays covers the CMS 2025 rate cut for physicians here. Guess who is likely to be paying for these cuts? Commercial payers, employers and employees will be on the hook. If you want more, read this Axios article.

Image below is from AMA

William Sarraille and Ann Lewandowski cover the failures of hospital pricing transparency here and here Because of the way the the sample results interact with OIG’s extrapolation estimates, it estimates that “46 percent of the 5,879 hospitals that were required to comply with the HPT rule did not”.

Scott Fuqua provided a link on hospital pricing surging twice the rate of inflation since 2000.

Cost of Caring by AHA from May is alarming that this run away train is not going to slow down.

Physician private practices have collapsed from 2012 to 2022 60.1% to 46.7%

Becker's reports hospital consolidation is accelerating as health systems navigate rising costs, staffing challenges and the need for scale to stay competitive.?

Trey R. post on Critical Healthcare Legal Battles: Industry-Shaping Cases to Watch. Along with the election fallout and all these legal battles, there is a lot to watch on how the landscape of healthcare and food will change in the coming years!

Craig Gottwals with this interesting image post., Furthermore, Scott Fuqua response is most intriguing on the challenges for employers.

Singapore Is the Best on Healthcare

An enlightening carousel by Dan Go on how Singapore is a leader in healthy citizens. In my study on the Current State of US Health, there are many factors beyond healthcare and our systems that impact American's health. A lot of it is culture based.

Speaking of solutions, Robert Sundelius, FACHE gives his perspective on The Health Ecosystem: From Vision to Reality in CEOWorld article. I really like his perspective, as his ideas cut across several dimensions that impact human health. The solve for human health is multifactorial and Robert provides practical and reasonable recommendations.

What team are you on? Incestuous relationships - Pharma and US FDA

Dutch Rojas shares the relationship of Big Pharma and US Govt FDA regulators in this post

Employer Sponsored Health Plans

Dean Jargo The False Assumptions Plaguing Employer Sponsored Health Plans here. Furthermore, the blessing and curse of being a health plan fiduciary

The share of employer-sponsored health insurance enrollment in self-funded plans grew from 55?percent in 2015 to 60?percent in 2021. Academic study can be found here

Wellness is Booming

Anthony Vennare touches upon the wellness industry in this post. LinkedIn news added more to this in this article

Human Innovation Has Outpaced Human Evolution

Ricky Du Plessis (MSc.) ?? fascinating read on his reviewing human history (anthropology & paleoanthropology) in this post

#healthcare #medicine #health #future

Joseph W. Sunderman is an Intelligence Analyst/Strategist that is a student of understanding the Current State of the US Health and its impact for the next decade. In my project section of my LinkedIn page, more information can be found.

In the past, Joe spent seven years at medical device giant Ethicon (division of Johnson & Johnson) with the most recent role as US Regional Manager of Strategic Insights and Pricing.? In his seven years at JNJ, he received recognition for his servant leadership, where he was a stand out in performance by being a top 10% recipient of Encore and Inspire Awards over multiple years.? Dozens and dozens of accolades from contributors to senior leaders for his collaborative work.? Prior to Ethicon, Joe has had a wide variety of experiences in medical claims, banking, publishing, and retail.? He began his career at Schaeffer's Investment Research as a financial analyst, where he was ranked by Bridge Information Systems as one of the top 10 market analysts for three straight years for his commentary and stock picks found in Schaeffer's Daily Bulletin. Joe has been published in the Market Pulse Journal and Chartpoint and his market comments have been printed in the USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Investor's Business Daily, Dow Jones News Wire, and Reuters. Also, Joe has made appearances on Bloomberg television.