7/29/2010

1. Caremark.com iPhone app allows Rx management, research CVS Caremark has released the Caremark.com iPhone® application, which is available free at the iPhone App Store.     2. Cancer website adds medical history form for patients The free website Navigating Cancer has added a medical history form that enables patients to manage and update their medical history on demand.     3. GAO: Genetic tests may pose health risks DTC genetic tests now on the market may be getting ahead of current medical science and could ironically pose health risks to those patients who may change their medical care based on those results, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) study and testimony.     4. Most pharma sales managers aren't armed with health outcome info Although pharma sales executives agree that delivering health outcomes data is increasingly important in the biopharma sales process, only 6% of district sales managers currently understand and often communicate this type of data to sales representatives.     5. More patients, more tests, but less money for cardiologists Cardiologists are seeing more baby boomer patients than ever, but they are being reimbursed less for those services by Medicare and insurance firms, according to a survey from MedAxiom.     Privacy Statement / Terms of Use Copyright © 2010 All Rights Reserved, ePharmaceuticals™, A Division of HCPro, Inc.

1. Consumers less comfortable accessing mobile medical info than other info 2. Partnership allows hospitals to deliver health news, online CME 3. Health insurance included in AHRQ's State Snapshots 4. Galderma funding skin education initiative for adolescents 5. CIGNA teams with online health insurance guide