Health Care
Healthy Concern: Dealing with Obamacare
Morel industries, a leading Seattle foundry, focuses on its customers needs. It is adept at applying new technology to the casting of metal and excelling at the rapid conversion of prototypes to systems for high-quality production. There isnt much that confounds Stephen and Mark Morel, who run the family company, but the changes in health…
Bright Idea: Reigning Cats and Dogs
After selling his cigar-importing business for half a million dollars in 1999, Darryl Rawlings used the money to found Trupanion, originally called Vetinsurance, in Canada. Trupanion expanded to the United States in 2007 and claims to be the only exclusive pet insurance company in the world. It offers health coverage for cats and dogs in…
The sequester’s huge impact on biomedical research
As Congress lurched from one drama to the next in 2013, the topic of sequestration didnt last long in national headlines. The across-the-board domestic spending cuts were once deemed dumb by both political parties and predicted to do real damage to the national economy. But because that damage could be interpreted as a nip here…
2013 Leaders in Health Care, Community Outreach
WINNER: Pioneer Square Clinic/Harborview Medical CenterHarborview Medical Centers outreach program lives up to the name of its location in Seattles Pioneer Square by blazing new trails in providing primary care for physical and mental conditions in the homeless and low-income community. For more than 40 years, the King County hospital operated by UW Medicine has…
2013 Leaders in Health Care, Global Health Organization
WINNER: Infectious Disease Research InstituteBefore IDRI began, there was little interest elsewhere in developing an affordable diagnostic tool for Chagas disease, an insect-borne illness that is one of the major health afflictions in South America. The disease largely affects the poor, and a likely return on investment was low. Thats the kind of early-stage development…
2013 Leaders in Health Care, Innovation in Biopharmaceuticals
WINNER: Alder BiopharmaceuticalsFor frequent sufferers of migraines, current therapies can be as troublesome as the debilitating headaches. They would have to be taking drugs all the time, explains Alder Biopharmaceuticals CEO Randall Schatzman, and also deal with the toxicity and side effects that go with them. For its ALD403 drug, Alder engineers migraine-preventing antibodies that…
2013 Leaders in Health Care, Medical Research
WINNER: Dr. Rainer Storb, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/Seattle Cancer Care AllianceRainer Storbs research at SCCA has helped change how bone marrow stem cell transplants are done. The techniques he pioneered offer an alternative to treatments requiring severe radiation and chemotherapy. Instead, they rely on the immune cells of the donor graft to do the…
2013 Leaders in Health Care, Outstanding Health Care Executive
WINNER: Mark Secord, executive director/CEO, Neighborcare HealthBy the eighth grade, Mark Secord knew he wanted to be a hospital administrator, just like his father. But he didnt learn what kind he wanted to be until much later.It was his time as an executive at Virginia Mason Medical Center that revealed what mattered to him most….
2013 Leaders in Health Care, Outstanding Health Care Practitioner
WINNER: Dr. Robert Thompson, Valley Medical Center/Renton RotaCare ClinicThe Renton Rotary RotaCare Clinic operates under the auspices of the Rotary Club but owes its existence to the family practice physician known popularly as Dr. Bob. Robert Thompson had long taken an interest in how difficult it could be for the uninsured or underinsured to get…
2013 Leaders in Health Care: Overview
Welcome to Seattle Business magazines fifth celebration of extraordinary achievement in health care. Since 2009, we have honored individuals and organizations for making heroic contributions to the well being of people the world over through enormous dedication, groundbreaking research and thoughtful stewardship. And each year we have been overwhelmed by their remarkable exploits. The 2013…
Back to the Future: The Doctor Is in House
Employee health care is expensive for both employer and worker, and not just in direct costs such as premiums, administration and deductibles. There’s also the productivity lost when workers take time to travel to, and wait in, the doctor’s office for an exam, and the time lost to illness when a worker puts off dealing…
On Reflection: Healthy Investment
With talk of expansion at the University of Washington School of Medicine WWAMI medical education program in Spokane and establishment of a new doctoral degree in nurse practice at Washington State University, Eastern Washington is hoping to train more medical professionals who will remain in the region and be a catalyst for growth and support…
Balancing Act
If you cover your ears when someone starts talking about the Affordable Care ActObamacare in common parlanceyou have lots of company. Running close to 1,000 pages, the act is mind-numbingly complex, and many details have yet to be worked out. To top it off, many of its provisions dont even take effect until 2018. But…