Pharmacist-Driven SMART Formulary Improves Pharmacoequity
A large academic medical center implemented a charitable care formulary with clinical pharmacist oversight, which resulted in more efficient usage of funds and fewer readmissions.
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Impact of COVID-19 on Specialty Televisits in a Large Integrated Health Care System
Specialty televisits remain common in the Veterans Health Administration following the COVID-19 pandemic, suggesting they will remain an important ongoing care modality for many patients.
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Digital Health Implementation Among Older Adults: Health Technology Navigators’ Perspectives
Health technology navigators share perspectives on barriers to and facilitators of digital health access for older, linguistically diverse patients in a Los Angeles safety-net system.
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Effects of Maryland’s All-Payer Model on Elective Joint Replacement Surgery
The Maryland All-Payer Model was associated with an increase in population-based rates of elective major joint replacements, with a more pronounced effect observed in Maryland-only hospitals.
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NCCN Summit Seeks to Build Better Connections Between Oncology and Primary Care
May 7th 2025The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) policy summit highlighted the need for improved communication between oncology and primary care to enhance cancer survivor outcomes and care transitions.
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Contributor: For Complex Cases, Continuity in Acute Care Is Necessary
April 23rd 2025For patients with complex needs and social challenges like unstable housing, the hospital has become their de facto medical home—yet each visit is a fragmented restart, without continuity, context, or a clear path forward.
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Organizational Factors Associated With Variation in Primary Care Providers in ACOs
April 8th 2025A higher percentage of accountable care organization (ACO) primary care providers was associated with physician leadership, upside financial risk, and financial compensation of physicians tied to performance measures.
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Neurologists Share Tips for Securing Patient Access to Gene Therapies
March 19th 2025Tenacious efforts at every level, from the individual clinician to the hospital to the state to Congress, will be needed to make sure patients can access life-saving gene therapies for neuromuscular diseases.
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Solving the Transition Conundrum as More Children With Muscular Dystrophy Live to Adulthood
March 17th 2025Learning from examples like congenital heart disease and cystic fibrosis can help health systems and clinicians prepare to care for an influx of patients with neuromuscular diseases as they reach adulthood thanks to transformative therapy advances.
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Improving System-Based Tobacco Cessation in a Community Health Clinic
This case study demonstrates how system-based tobacco cessation was enhanced in a community clinic.
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Health Impacts of Health System Implementation of a Food-as-Medicine Strategy
This article describes the reach of a Food-as-Medicine strategy implemented by a regional health care system and its impact on adult participants’ cardiometabolic risk factors.
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Improving Pain Clinic Outcomes With Preappointment Surveys: Data-Driven Policy Change
Implementing a policy change to require preappointment surveys before scheduling initial clinic evaluations can improve wait-list times and show rates.
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Use of AI Lets Health System Find Lung Cancer at Early Stages
March 8th 2025Artificial intelligence (AI) helps a Sarasota, Florida, health system catch lung nodules that appear on CT scans for patients treated for scores of conditions, allowing them to be referred for a possible lung cancer diagnosis.
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