Study: Online Dashboard Improves Safety of Anticoagulant Prescribing
Dashboard was developed by the VA in 2016 to highlight and optimize the treatment of patients with direct oral anticoagulants
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UnitedHealthcare Replaces CFO Amid Financial Turmoil
Two days after announcing it was dropping MA plans, the insurer announced a new CFO
Liver Failure-Associated Death Reported in Patient Treated With Sarepta Gene Therapy Elevidys
Sarepta Therapeutics said the Duchenne muscular dystrophy patient recently had a cytomegalovirus infection, which can damage the liver and may have contributed to the fatality. It’s the first patient death out of more than 800 patients treated with Elevidys, a gene therapy for the rare muscle-wasting disease. The post Liver Failure-Associated Death Reported in Patient…
California Halts Medical Parole, Sends Several Critically Ill Patients Back to Prison
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California has halted a court-ordered medical parole program, opting instead to send its most incapacitated prisoners back to state lockups or release them early. The unilateral termination is drawing protests from attorneys representing prisoners and the author of the state’s medical parole legislation, who say it unnecessarily puts this vulnerable population at…
A Look at the New Executive Order and the Intersection of Homelessness and Mental Illness
This brief describes the new executive order, examines the intersection of homelessness and mental illness, reviews the history of the deinstitutionalization movement, and discusses specialized treatment services for people with SMI.
Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ Taint Rural California Drinking Water, Far From Known Sources
Juana Valle never imagined she’d be scared to drink water from her tap or eat fresh eggs and walnuts when she bought her 5-acre farm in San Juan Bautista, California, three years ago. Escaping city life and growing her own food was a dream come true for the 52-year-old. Then Valle began to suspect water…
The Life365 Demo
Kent Dicks, CEO, and Kendall Paulsen, Telehealth Solutions lead, at Life 365 showed me their comprehensive set of tools and services for remote patient monitoring, or what I call the “continuous clinic”. Kent did this with MedApps, later acquired by Alere. But at Life 365 he’s building a new approach to getting the tools and…
Plummeting Patient Collection Rates Call for a New Approach to Hospital Payment
For community hospitals, it’s a sign of the need for a different approach to patient financial communication and payment — one that meets patients where they are and protects their dignity while avoiding undue stress on the organization’s bottom line. The post Plummeting Patient Collection Rates Call for a New Approach to Hospital Payment appeared…
Talkspace Acquires Peer Support Platform Wisdo Health
Mental health company Talkspace has purchased Wisdo Health, an AI-powered platform for social health and peer support. The post Talkspace Acquires Peer Support Platform Wisdo Health appeared first on MedCity News.
Patients Suffer When Indian Health Service Doesn’t Pay for Outside Care
When the Indian Health Service can’t provide medical care to Native Americans, the federal agency can refer them elsewhere. But each year, it rejects tens of thousands of requests to fund those appointments, forcing patients to go without treatment or pay daunting medical bills out of their own pockets. In theory, Native Americans are entitled…