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Telehealth User Experiences During COVID-19: A Case Study of Outpatient Cardiovascular Clinics Affiliated With a Large Academic PracticeIn cardiovascular clinics during COVID-19, notable barriers to successful telehealth use included obtaining diagnostic information needed to deliver high-quality care and technology-related challenges for patients.
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Barriers and Facilitators to Managing Social Care in the Digital Era Among Michigan Health CentersThere is widespread interest in understanding the role of health care in meeting social needs. This study examines community-wide activities, resources, and information technology used to manage social care.
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Patient Need and Provider Referrals to Diabetes Self-management EducationThis article demonstrates that few patient encounters with indicators of need for diabetes self-management education result in a provider referral to the service.
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Economics of a Health System’s Direct-to-Consumer Telemedicine for Its EmployeesA direct-to-consumer telemedicine service resulted in lower per-episode unit costs for care within 7 days and only marginally increased the use of services overall.
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Optimizing the Management of TRDDrs Steven Levine, Patricia Ares-Romero, Samuel Nordberg, Martin Rosenzweig, and Carrie Jardine share insight on the future treatment landscape for TRD.
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European Commission Approves Mirvetuximab Soravtansine for FRα+ Platinum-Resistant Ovarian CancerThe European Commission has approved mirvetuximab soravtansine for select patients with pretreated folate receptor–alpha (FRα)-positive, platinum-resistant ovarian cancer.
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Leveraging Predictive Analytics to Target Payer-Led Medication Adherence InterventionsThis article explores how payers can enhance their medication adherence initiatives to reduce costs and improve member health outcomes by leveraging predictive analytics through machine learning.
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Mobile Health Clinic: Lessons Learned Building Partnerships Across Health SystemsEstablishing mobile health clinics in rural settings requires collaboration across health systems by aligning missions, building infrastructure to support research, and demonstrating proof of concept.
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Durability, Reduced Toxicity of CAR NK Therapy in AML May Aid Curative TreatmentSecond of 2 parts featuring an interview with Stephen Strickland, MD, MSCI,director, Leukemia Research for Sarah Cannon Research Institute. Strickland recently presented data from a phase 1 trial of SENTI-202, an investigational chimeric antigen receptor natural killer (CAR NK) cell therapy. Toxicity with this therapy is lower than seen in many conventional CAR T-cell therapies.
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Experts Share Top Takeaways From AACR Annual Meeting 2025During interviews at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2025, experts shared key insights from this year's conference.
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Chronic Overlapping Pain Conditions and Long-term Opioid TreatmentLittle is known about opioid prescribing patterns in patients with chronic overlapping pain conditions. This study suggests target populations for interventions to manage chronic pain.
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Leveraging Longitudinal Clinical Laboratory Results to Improve Prenatal CareCollaboration between a clinical laboratory and a managed care organization improved prenatal care and outcomes through real-time, actionable, laboratory-derived insights and care coordination.
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Cross-Validation of Insurer and Hospital Price Transparency DataReal-world cross-validation of insurer and hospital price transparency data finds low overlap but high concordance between data sources.
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Hospital Discharge Diagnosis Position: Impact on Adult Pneumonia Burden EstimatesDisease burden estimates of pneumonia-associated hospitalizations are more sensitive when including pneumonia coded in any diagnosis field vs in only the first discharge diagnosis field.
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Adolescent Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: A Decade of Rising Surgical CostAdolescent anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction surgery can preserve health and restore function of the knee joint, but the surgical cost has outpaced inflation.
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Telemetry: Appropriateness of Initial Assignment and Duration in Nonintensive SettingThe authors report overutilization of telemetry monitoring in a community setting, increasing the cost of health care and potential harm to patients with unnecessary interventions.
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Combination of Magrolimab and Rituximab Well Tolerated in Patients With Refractory/Relapsed Indolent NHLA 3-year follow-up of patients with refractory/relapsed indolent non-Hodgkin (NHL) treated with a combination of magrolimab and rituximab showed no new treatment-emergent adverse events, suggesting long-term safety. The treatment also confirmed magrolimab penetration into the tumor.
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TeleConnect: Digitally Connecting Physicians Across the Health Care SystemTeleConnect introduces the concept of connecting primary care physicians and specialists by leveraging technology. Improving communication in a health care system betters patient care.
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Responsibility for Treating Tobacco Dependence in Health Clinics Serving Medicaid EnrolleesThis article describes the implementation of Medicaid smoking cessation guidance in a large, urban federally qualified health center to examine how state-level provisions translated into clinic-level policies.
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Assessment of Structured Data Elements for Social Risk FactorsAn expert panel identified and assessed electronic health record and health information exchange structured data elements to support future development of social risk factor computable phenotyping.
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Gene Therapy Holds Potential in Otoferlin-Related Hearing LossJay T. Rubinstein, MD, PhD, University of Washington School of Medicine, discusses DB-OTO, an investigational gene therapy with potential to treat otoferlin gene–related hearing loss.
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Insurance Payer Is Associated With Length of Stay After Traumatic Brain InjuryAmong hospitalized patients with traumatic brain injury, Medicaid fee-for-service was associated with longer hospital stays than private insurance and Medicaid managed care organizations.
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TPIP a Potential Game-Changer for Prostanoid Therapy in PAHTreprostinil palmitil inhalation powder (TPIP) for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) showed promising results in a midstage clinical trial, significantly improving key measures of heart and lung function.
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Scaling Care Coordination Through Digital Engagement: Stepped-Wedge Trial Assessing ReadmissionsThis evaluation looks at a postdischarge digital engagement (PDDE) program using causal inference methods to examine the impact of PDDE on readmission.
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Characteristics of Self-Triaged Emergency Department Visits by Adults With CancerAdults with cancer may have difficulty self-assessing the clinical severity of their acute care needs, yet they rarely use a telephone triage line available to them.
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How State Surprise Billing Protections Increased ED Visits, 2007-2018: Potential Implications for the No Surprises ActState surprise billing protections decreased emergency department (ED) out-of-pocket payments to such an extent that ED visits actually increased.
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Artificial Intelligence in Medicare: Utilization, Spending, and Access to AI-Enabled Clinical SoftwareThis study quantified the trends over time in utilization of, spending on, and access to CT fractional flow reserve, the first artificial intelligence (AI)–enabled clinical software reimbursed by Medicare.
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Health Plan Switching and Satisfaction in a Medicaid MLTSS ProgramHealth plan dissatisfaction was higher among Medicaid managed long-term services and supports (MLTSS) beneficiaries who did not follow through with an intention to change health plans.
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Evaluating Alternative Methods of Comparing Antihypertensive Treatment IntensityMedication dose captures modification of hypertension treatment intensity more precisely than medication count, and this measure should be preferred in studies that aim to improve hypertension management.
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Cost Savings From an mHealth Tool for Improving Medication AdherenceThe Wellth smartphone app significantly increased medication adherence and lowered unnecessary health care utilization and costs over 9 months among Medicaid beneficiaries who were self-managing chronic conditions.
