Jackie Syrop

Despite price inflation of at least 20% on more than one-third of brand-name medications in 2015, Express Scripts reported slowed increases in overall drug spending.

Giving consumers prices so they can shop around for the best value for nonemergency healthcare appears to have only a modest effect on reducing healthcare spending.

Smartphone personal voice assistants, such as Siri and Cortana, often fail to provide appropriate information when asked questions about mental health, rape, and domestic violence.

Growing numbers of women with breast cancer in one breast are choosing to have preventive double mastectomies despite there being little evidence that the surgery actually improves quality of life for those women.

Employers are willing to invest the money on emerging technologies aimed at improving employee wellbeing, but they face challenges with budgets and issues of confidentiality and privacy.

Twitter may have the potential to promote trial recruitment for cancer clinical trials by promoting interest and boosting enrollment in the trials.

Standard ways of assessing depression risk may not work as well among black adults as white adults, according to the results of a long-term study.

Rather than decreasing healthcare spending, retail health clinics actually modestly increase spending by $14 per person per year.

Updated guidelines on the use of colony-stimulating factors (CSFs) in people with cancer address the strengths and limitations of the use of CSFs, which reduce the risk of neutropenia.

Factors determining access to care are closely associated with hospital and emergency department visits among adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Increased medical provider consolidation with hospitals and/or health systems results in increased spending on outpatient prescription drug-based cancer treatment.

A new system could help healthcare providers predict patients with palliative care needs when they are admitted to the hospital.

Integrated approaches using electronic health records, clinical decision support, and patient-controlled technologies may help improve the appropriate use of medication as well as the management of type 2 diabetes.

Despite big changes in the American healthcare system over the past 2 years, most US residents report that the healthcare they personally receive has remained about the same.

A novel unit created to care for critically ill patients significantly sped access to specialized care.

The health insurance marketplace’s application/verification process is vulnerable to fraud, found a report from the US Government Accountability Office.

The current system of long-term care puts an enormous burden on family members and friends, often results in poor care, and frequently causes preventable harm, according to a report from the Long-Term Care Financing Collaborative.

The is a wide variation across the country between hospitals using costly positron emission tomography scans for follow-up care for survivors of lung and esophageal cancers.

Primary care physicians correctly estimate medication adherence of their Medicare patients only half of the time and usually overestimate adherence rates, according to a new study.

While survey results show that belief in the importance of comparative effectiveness research is largely solid, its impact is yet to be realized or acknowledged by stakeholders in the United States.

Women hospitalized with coronary artery disease are less likely to receive optimal care at discharge compared with men and African Americans have an elevated risk of mortality compared with white patients, study finds.

While the cost of the widely used stroke clot-busting drug alteplase has more than doubled over the past decade, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement has remained far behind.

Detecting acute HIV infections is important because this infection contributes disproportionately to the transmission of HIV and highly contagious.

A healthcare delivery model that utilizes home visits and that is interdisciplinary and team-based has been shown to improve care while controlling costs for patients with complex needs

Risk adjustment for social determinants of health could reduce penalties to children’s hospitals for patient factors that are beyond their control, according to the results of a new study published in JAMA Pediatrics.

A review of evidence of the clinical safety and efficacy of Zepatier found that the hepatitis C virus treatment appears to have a less risky safety profile than Sovaldi and a similar safety profile as Harvoni.

A study of decade-long trends in the incidence and mortality rates of patients who develop cardiogenic shock during hospitalization for acute myocardial infarction found a decline in death rates, but not incidence.

While patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease have a higher risk of stroke than the general population, patients who have frequent exacerbations of their illness actually have a reduced risk of stroke than those with infrequent exacerbations.

Patient's whose complete hospital treatment was captured by an electronic health record were up to 30% less likely to experience in-hospital adverse events.

Relatively simple improvements could increase patient satisfaction and potentially improve the important process of imparting patient information during enrollment of cancer patients into clinical trials.