Health Care Delivery

Christine Ko, MD, professor of dermatology and pathology at Yale University, reflects on her use of telehealth and how it allowed her to establish and maintain emotional connections with her patients, all at high risk of skin cancer.

An overview of the latest news in Parkinson disease reported across MJH Life Sciences™.

Between 2014 and 2018, annual diagnoses for HIV in an emergency department (ED) in Hamilton County, Ohio, more than doubled, from 20 to 42.

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with Gregory Harris, MD, MPH, DFAPA, senior medical director for behavioral health at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, about the challenges of meeting the demand for mental health service during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A higher risk of COVID-19–related mortality was found among hospitalized patients with Parkinson disease (PD) than in the general population. Overall inpatient mortality of those with PD was also significantly higher in 2020 than in the year prior.

Mount Sinai research released today shows a possible link between excess pericardial fat and greater risk of heart failure, with implications for early intervention and prevention of heart disease.

Ultrasounds and MRI are both used to monitor inflammation activity in rheumatoid arthritis, but their value in refining future treatment strategies has so far been unknown.

Patients with sickle cell disease face substantial health care utilization and impaired health-related quality of life (HRQOL).

Matthew Reynolds, PhD, vice president of real-world evidence at IQVIA, discusses findings of a recent paper with the National Pharmaceutical Council on how COVID-19 affected real-world data and research, as well as implications for future studies.

An overview of the latest news in Parkinson disease reported across MJH Life Sciences™.

Results of a US claims database show erenumab is associated with reduced acute medication use and health care resource utilization.

The technique uses optical coherence tomography angiography to assess the motion of blood flow, instead of static images.

Mark Trusheim, MS, BS, strategic director at the NEW Drug Development ParadIGmS program and visiting scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, explains factors involved when considering whether a therapy would be suitable for performance-based contracting.

It is already known that dual-eligible older adults are at an increased risk for death in the year following a stay in the intensive care unit (ICU), but it previously wasn't known whether dual-eligible status is linked with functional decline after an ICU stay.

Patients with refractory or unexplained chronic cough are concerned about how they appear to others, and it takes them many years to get diagnosed, according to posters presented at the American Thoracic Society 2021 International Conference.

Amy Abernethy, MD, PhD, a hematologist/oncologist and palliative medicine physician, and former Principal Deputy Commissioner of the FDA, discusses new collaborations in the health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) landscape.

An author of a study in the May 2021 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® describes how the COVID-19 pandemic, the aging of America, and already-existing workforce shortages will further threaten the dual-eligible population unless policy makers reform scope-of-practice laws.

New guidelines recommend Americans get screened earlier for colon cancer; Johns Hopkins University will send mental health providers on security calls; Tennessee's governor signs bill limiting health care for transgender youth.

During a panel at Virtual ISPOR 2021, speakers presented global perspectives of COVID-19 vaccine rollout and efforts to target vaccine-hesitant communities.

Lou Garrison, PhD, professor emeritus in the Department of Pharmacy at the University of Washington, explains what is needed to optimize use of health technology assessment (HTA) in the fragmented US health care system.

During the ATS 2021 International Conference, several studies shed new light on 2 asthma biologics.

J. Jaime Caro, MDCM, FACP, FRCPC, is chief scientist at Evidera, professor in practice at London School of Economics, and adjunct professor of medicine, epidemiology, and biostatistics at McGill University.

Older adults who have a higher annual household income (HHI) were shown to be less likely than those with lower HHI to receive a dementia diagnosis after referral in Denmark, but more likely to receive that diagnosis earlier and at a less severe cognitive stage.

Two posters presented at Virtual ISPOR 2021 analyzed the health care resource utilization and cost of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with pneumonia, as well as the cost savings of treating patients with frequent or severe COPD exacerbations with a fixed-dose triple therapy.

The COVID-19 pandemic brought together the world and taught health systems how to be resilient and adapt to both predictable and unpredictable changes, said the panelists during the plenary on day 1 of Virtual ISPOR 2021.