Considering Social Determinants of Health When Caring for Underserved Communities
February 4th 2015Panelists at the annual meeting of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology discussed efforts to holistically treat low-income or chronic care populations by taking social determinants of health into consideration.
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Evidence-Based Care Can Eliminate Gaps in Cancer Survival Rates
February 4th 2015Although African Americans have had lower colon cancer survival rates over the past 2 decades compared with white patients, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found evidence-based care can remove the racial disparity.
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FDA Announces Measure to Ease Patient Access to Investigational Drugs
February 4th 2015In his blog post on FDAVoice, Peter Lurie MD, MPH, associate FDA commissioner for public health strategy and analysis, announced the introduction of a draft form and a draft guideline that can be used by a physician to request access to an experimental drug or biological product that is still under development.
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ONC Announces $28 Million in Grant Funding to Achieve Interoperability
February 3rd 2015During remarks at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Annual Meeting 2015, HHS Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced a new funding opportunity to achieve interoperability.
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Medicare Offers Relief to 400,000 Caught in Aetna Pharmacy Network Mix-Ups
February 3rd 2015More than 400,000 Medicare beneficiaries who may have been confused or misinformed about the pharmacy details of their 2015 Aetna prescription drug plans have until the end of this month to find participating pharmacies or switch plans, according to CMS.
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Innovation in Interoperability and Engaging Patients
February 3rd 2015Putting data in patient hands, the construction of an open API, and interoperability are big hopes for the future of health information technology (IT), according to panelists at the annual meeting of the Office of the national Coordinator for Health IT.
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Health IT Creates Unintentional Healthcare Disparities
February 2nd 2015Health information technology (IT) can create greater healthcare disparities if all patient groups and their concerns aren't considered properly, panelists said on the first day of the annual meeting of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.
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Lilly's Glyxambi, First-in-Class Combination Pill, Approved for T2DM
February 2nd 2015The dual inhibitor tablet, a combination of an SGLT-2 inhibitor and a DPP-4 inhibitor, is expected to stimulate the pancreas to produce more insulin and stimulate the liver to produce less glucose, and also prevent glucose reabsorption.
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Ohio's Kasich Lets Legislators Avoid Vote on Medicaid Expansion
February 2nd 2015Governor John Kasich changed eligibility rules to add 450,000 Ohioans to Medicaid last year. The budget he presents to the Legislature will be silent on reauthorizing those rules, but will call for changes to find savings elsewhere in the program.
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Specialist Doctors Head for Exit as US Shifts Payments
February 2nd 2015The Obama administration's push to transform the way the US pays for healthcare is splitting the medical profession, as family doctors embrace changes that oncologists, neurologists and other specialists are concerned will cause turmoil.
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Study Substantiates Cost-Effectiveness of Biomarker-Based NSCLC Treatment
February 2nd 2015Multiplexed genetic screening for EGFR and ALK gene rearrangements and subsequent biomarker-guided treatment is cost-effective compared with standard chemotherapy treatment without any molecular testing in the metastatic NSCLC setting in the United States, researchers report in The Journal of Thoracic Oncology.
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