Information technology
Which 10 health tech startups made the cut for the Cedars-Sinai accelerator? | Medcity News
The Cedars-Sinai Techstar-managed accelerator recently began its third class of healthcare startups. They include Aiva Healthcare, which make a bedside Alexa-powered voice assistant, and Narrative Dx, which gathers comments about patient experience from social media, discharge surveys, review sites, and elsewhere to find patterns.
Online toolkit to help nurses integrate genomics into care | Health Data Management
Using a new online toolkit from the National Human Genome Research Institute, nurses will integrate genomics into care. The toolkit "is a starting point for healthcare providers who want to promote genomic integration into practice to benefit their patients," said Laura Lyman Rodriguez, a division director at the Institute.
Hacking still healthcare's top threat, but insider threats often go unnoticed | Healthcare IT News
In August, hacking caused 54.5 percent of healthcare data breaches in August, while insider threats made up 27.3 percent of breaches, according to the Protenus Breach Barometer.
Pharmaceuticals
Novartis' $475,000 price on cancer therapy meets resistance | Bloomberg
The chief medical officer of Express Scripts Holding Co. wrote in a blog post that the price of the drug, Kymriah, is much higher than other complex treatments. Similar drugs are usually used only once by a few patients. "Therein lies the challenger," the CMO wrote. "We need a new payment model."
FDA warns of death, liver injury risks from Intercept's drug | Reuters
The FDA said Ocaliva, made by Intercept Pharmaceuticals, is occasionally improperly dosed in patients with a rare liver disease, a mistake that increases the risk of liver damage and death.
In other news
Aaron Hernandez had server C.T.E. when he died at age 27 | The New York Times
Hernandez had what his lawyer called the "most sever case they had ever seen in someone of Aaron's age." The former New England Patriots tight end was serving a sentence for murder when he committed suicide in April.
