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> The American College of Physicians has had enough. If you want its members to spend tons of extra time working with electronic medical records and personal health records and countless other categories of online stuff, pay them for their time, darn it! FierceHealthIT

> It looks like drugmaker Eli Lilly is working out the its tsuris with the FDA over an approval for a long-acting, injectable form of its antipsychotic drug Zyprexa. FiercePharma

> After testing the system for just a few months, Tenet Healthcare now allows patients to pay their hospital bills online. FierceHealthFinance

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Long lasting Zyprexa?

Lilly needs to get a grip on issues with it's original formula.
About 30 state attorneys general have subpoenaed documents detailing Lilly's sales practices for Zyprexa as part of a civil investigation under state consumer protection laws.

Experts say Zyprexa qualifies for a MedGuide warning:
(1) The labeling would definitely help prevent serious adverse events;
(2) Few patients would be willing to take the drug and risk developing diabetes given that numerous studies have shown Zyprexa to be no more effective than the older class of antipsychotics that do not cause diabetes; and
(3) Most patients on Zyprexa would learn that the drug is not FDA approved to treat the condition they have.

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