Bevey Miner: Unpacking the 21st Century Cures Act, the Role of Open Comment Periods
February 1st 2024Bevey Miner, executive vice president of health care strategy and policy, Consensus Cloud Solutions, discusses the complex landscape of proposed health care rules, and the potential impact of CMS' Advancing Interoperability and Prior Authorizations Rule.
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Dr Sudipto Mukherjee Discusses Survival Outcomes Data in US Patients With ISM
January 30th 2024Sudipto Mukherjee, MD, PhD, MPH, hematology and medical oncology, Cleveland Clinic, suggests that some patients with indolent systemic mastocytosis (ISM) may be progressing at a faster rate than expected, and will need to be monitored and started on appropriate therapies.
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Bevey Miner Talks Interoperability in Digital Health Policy
January 29th 2024Bevey Miner, executive vice president of health care strategy and policy, Consensus Cloud Solutions, discusses the historic progression of health information technology and the role interoperability plays in secure exchanging of patient data.
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NCCN Guidelines Update Adds Momelotinib Below Ruxolitinib for High-, Low-Risk Myelofibrosis
January 23rd 2024Momelotinib was given category 2A and 2B status for patients with high- and low-risk myelofibrosis (MF) and MF with anemia. However, ruxolitinib retains a higher category of recommendation as a treatment for patients with MF.
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Molly Mendenhall on Standardizing Comprehensive Biomarker Testing in NSCLC
January 18th 2024Molly Mendenhall, BSN, RN, director of quality and compliance at Oncology Hematology Care, Inc (OHC), discussed a 1-year quality improvement project implemented by OHC to standardize comprehensive biomarker testing in patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
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Bevey Miner, executive vice president of health care strategy and policy, Consensus Cloud Solutions, shares how extraction artificial intelligence is helping train machine learning models to recognize and extract information from documents, providing structured data with confidence scores.
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Dr Michael Gieske on Successes and Challenges in Increasing Lung Cancer Screening in Rural Regions
January 12th 2024Michael Gieske, MD, director of lung cancer screening at St. Elizabeth Health Care, speaks to the success of the Rural Appalachian Lung Cancer Screening Initiative, along with challenges to implementing increased lung cancer screening.
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Substantial State Variations Identified in Health Insurance Coverage at Cancer Diagnosis
January 11th 2024Health insurance coverage is a strong determinant of cancer care access and survival, and the observed variations are despite a significant increase in coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
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Dr Margaret Liang on Mitigating Financial Toxicity for Patients With Cancer
January 6th 2024Margaret Liang, MD, MSHPM, gynecologic oncologist and health services researcher and director, Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship Program, Cedars-Sinai Cancer Center, discusses financial toxicity in cancer care and how institutions can help alleviate the financial burden for patients.
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Dr Michael Gieske on Addressing Lung Cancer Screening Disparities in Rural America
January 5th 2024Michael Gieske, MD, director of lung cancer screening at St. Elizabeth Health Care, discusses disparities in lung cancer incidence and mortality that the Rural Appalachian Lung Cancer Screening Initiative aims to address.
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