Health Care Delivery

Strategies to enhance virtual care through quality assurance frameworks, technological innovation, and provider support were laid out in a pair of posters presented at the recent AMGA Annual Conference.

Implementing artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed clinicians' and health systems' ability to screen for and distinguish forms of cardiorenalmetabolic disease.

Mapping care management needs by defining patient populations and then stratifying them according to risk and their needs can help to spur the transformation of a siloed health care system into an integrated system that is able to better provide holistic, value-based care despite the many transitions that continue among hospital, primary, specialty, and community care environments.

Keep up with the latest moves made in health policy under President Donald Trump's second administration. This timeline will be updated as orders and policy progress.

Medication nonadherence to oral anticoagulants and oral anti–prostate cancer medication has been scrutinized through new research conducted among patients and health care providers and presented by the American Medical Group Association at its 2025 annual meeting, held March 26-29 in Grapevine, Texas.

For higher-risk multiple myeloma (MM), successful patient selection and monitoring strategies are vital for the management of adverse events and the disease itself.

Weight loss is a key effect of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs), but these drugs may also provide liver health benefits independent of this mechanism.

In the wake of the 2025 measles outbreak and lingering vaccine hesitancy, here are 5 things to know about the safety, efficacy, myths, and more related to childhood vaccinations.

Documentation efficiency was higher among younger and male clinicians.

Jaime Murillo, MD, discusses the importance of fostering open communication with patients as a means of encouraging adherence to various treatments.

A new Commonwealth Fund report estimates that states' collective gross domestic products would shrink by $95 billion, with total economic output declining by $157 billion.

The Trump administration has expressed interest in eliminating or changing the Division of HIV Prevention in the CDC, which could introduce gaps in addressing the HIV epidemic.

Best practices can help MA plans improve their Star Ratings performance while allow for strategies for medication adherence to grow.

Ajai Chari, MD, stresses the importance of making bispecific therapies more accessible at the community level to improve outcomes in multiple myeloma.

New topline data from the Launch-HTN (NCT06153693) and Advance-HTN (NCT06153693) clinical trials show these investigations met their primary end points os statistically significant reductions in systolic blood pressure.

Lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] plays a key role in assessing cardiovascular risk, making awareness efforts equally essential for prevention and early intervention.

This commentary explains why comparing a launch price with a value-based price from a cost-effectiveness analysis requires further examination.

In a recent decision, the FDA approved vutrisiran (amvuttra), making it the only approved therapy for adults with hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis (ATTR-CM) or wild-type cardiomyopathy.

Ajai Chari, MD, University of California San Francisco, explores the challenges that accompany integrating chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies into multiple myeloma treatment.

Addressing patients with chronic kidney disease requires a commitment to data, education, and community, specifically in those affected by social determinants of health (SDOH).

Patients who did not complete a distress screener were also less likely to receive autologous stem cell transplants.

The PROMPT trials evaluate the influence of electronic health alerts for informing appropriate, evidence-based therapies to patients with cardiovascular conditions.

A study of 200 patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) showed a lower rate of severe and serious adverse events among those treated with zanubrutinib compared with ibrutinib.

To better understand patient experiences, the researchers analyzed qualitative and quantitative data from their social media posts about uncomplicated urinary tract infections (UTIs).

Tenacious 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.

Medication costs are only a piece of the puzzle when clinicians think about health care access, explains Leigh Maria Ramos-Platt, MD.

Recent cuts to federal grants are set to have a widespread impact across numerous scientific and medical studies.

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) can have a substantial impact on patients everyday life and, consequently, put added stress on health care systems.

The rapid development of gene therapy options for treating neuromuscular diseases has created new therapeutic options but also logistical hurdles and a need for complex discussions between clinicians and families.

Adeno-associated virus (AAV)–mediated gene therapy was one of the focal points of this year's Muscular Dystrophy Association conference. Here, Barry Byrne, MD, PhD, University of Florida, speaks to the novel development of AAV gene therapy and its mechanism of action.