PricewaterhouseCoopers Identifies Top Seven Health Industry Trends of '07?
The year ahead will be a watershed for the health industries as health savings accounts reach a tipping point, states act where the federal government hasn’t and pressure on pricing amid demand for transparency forces pharmaceutical companies, hospitals and health plans to rethink their strategies. For example, nearly one-quarter of Americans don’t believe that having an electronic health record will improve the quality of healthcare.

The Roulette Wheel: An Aid to Informed Decision Making
For physicians and their patients to make informed decisions, they must not only have access to the best available information, but also must also understand what it means, as well as the possible consequences of the choices open to them. Like others, we believe that visual tools can be an extremely useful part of this process, particularly when they allow us to bypass the need to understand numerical probabilities, or to “translate” such numbers into artificial and often equally obscure surrogate “utilities” [11,17–19]. The programmable “roulette wheel”tool described in this paper should allow patients and physicians to incorporate directly their own values about competing benefits and competing harms, and thus lead to choices that are most consistent with their aspirations and fears, as well as with the best available evidence, even as it changes over time.

New Journal: International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology (IJBET)
IJBET aims to advance and foster cutting edge research in the multi-disciplinary area of biomedical engineering and technology. Medical science is rapidly incorporating advances in science and technology that are combining to produce more accurate diagnoses, more effective treatments with fewer side effects, and improved ability to prevent disease and provide superior quality healthcare.

Technologies Available for Licensing from NIH/FDA and Non-Profit Institutions
Technologies related to rare diseases or conditions available for commercial licensing are listed under the related disease or condition. If you are a non-profit institution you can also have your technology included in this list.