Practice Transformation Are you ready to share your notes? As of April 5, health care organizations must provide patients with free, full and immediate electronic access to their doctors’ clinical notes as well as test results and pathology and imaging…
Practice Transformation Amazon enters the care delivery business Amazon will take its telehealth services nationwide. It will immediately expand its Amazon Care telemedicine program to interested employers in Washington and, this summer, will expand to all Amazon workers and to…
Practice Transformation Health Affairs: Team-based care is better Team-based care is superior to solo care, according to an aptly titled paper in Health Affairs, “Provider Teams Outperform Solo Providers in Managing Chronic Diseases and Could Improve the Value of Care.” Looking…
Practice Transformation Put diagnosis on the prescription Prescriptions for outpatient drugs should include diagnoses. That information should also be captured in claims data, write Christi A. Grimm and Julie K. Taitsman of the HHS Office of the Inspector General. “As…
Practice Transformation Testimony: Include PCPs in the vaccination process Want to reduce COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy? Let people talk to their primary care physician about it. That was the message public health experts delivered to the House Ways & Means Health…
Practice Transformation Collaboration improves diabetes, hypertension outcomes Interprofessional collaborative practice (ICP) among providers in the primary care setting leads to markedly better patient outcomes for those with hypertension and diabetes, according to analysis published in JAMA Network Open. The authors also…
Practice Transformation A key factor in vaccination access: car keys Transportation and social support are emerging as a critical barrier as older adults try to access COVID-19 vaccines. Seniors without family or friends to help them land vaccine appointments are…
Practice Transformation Ambiguous gene testing results: Fear, confusion Doctors are increasingly using genetic testing to identify hereditary cancer risks so they can recommend treatments or preventive measures. However, many genetic findings are ambiguous. An inconclusive result—variant of uncertain significance (VUS)—may…
Practice Transformation HIT training, optimization can reduce burnout Health IT and EHR optimization can mitigate clinician burnout, EHR training and care team expansion, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. “Arguably, the primary drivers of…
Practice Transformation Analysis: Hospitals dramatically marking up prices Hospitals mark up prices on medicines by an average of 250%—and some as much as 533%, according to Bernstein analyst Ronny Gal. For example, Neulesta, a drug given to chemotherapy patients, was…
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