Patient professional satisfaction , consistent with the American Medical Association’s core strategic objectives, is to advance healthcare delivery and payment models that enable high-quality, affordable care and restore and preserve physician satisfaction. Such changes could yield a more sustainable and effective health care system with highly motivated physicians. As hospitals and health systems affiliate with […]
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Helping physicians and pharma – Technology Adoption
Helping physicians and pharma through the healthcare system showed resilience over this past year and remained accessible to many. In fact, the 2021 Accenture Health and Life Sciences Experience Survey of nearly 1,800 people in the United States revealed that 26% said their access to healthcare has been even better since the onset of the […]
Thyroid Eye Disease: How A Novel Therapy May Change The Treatment Paradigm
Thyroid eye disease (TED) is a complex, debilitating autoimmune disease that causes orbital inflammation and tissue remodeling, leading to proptosis, diplopia, and even vision loss in severe cases. TED can cause facial disfigurement and severely impact the patient’s quality of life. Although the course of TED was established more than 60 years ago, effective treatments […]
Moscow says India may replace West in Russian pharmaceuticals market
After several Western sanctions are imposed against Russia due to Ukraine’s invasion, Indian pharmaceutical companies may replace Western manufacturers in the Russian market, Russian envoy to India Denis Alipov said on Friday. This news comes after reports of Western pharma companies shutting down operations in Russia. “The withdrawal of many Western companies from the Russian […]
Age at diagnosis and cancer subtype may affect risk for CV death among cancer survivors
According to studies published in Kidney Medicine, patients who started urgent start peritoneal diagnosis in an integrated health care system had good survival and modality retention rates one year later. Furthermore, experts propose that in circumstances requiring an unanticipated dialysis start, urgent start PD should be explored. Sijie Zheng, MD, PhD, of Kaiser Permanente Medical […]
Telemedicine and e-Health in the Management of Psoriasis
The COVID-19 pandemic has opened up new opportunities in telemedicine, including for people who have psoriasis. In most cases, medical management of psoriasis can be safely and effectively handled via this medium. The term “telehealth” is used even more broadly, to include technology used to collect and send patient data, such as email and remote patient monitoring. […]
Root Cause Analysis–Finding the Root of the Problem
Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is a popular and often-used technique that helps people answer the question of why the problem occurred in the first place. It seeks to identify the origin of a problem using a specific set of steps, with associated tools, to find the primary cause of the problem, so that you can […]
Antibiotic allergy labels in hospitalized and critically ill adults
A Vanderbilt study shows that physicians can safely identify and disprove low-risk penicillin allergies using an oral amoxicillin challenge in consenting patients, even those in the intensive care unit (ICU) who are recovering from critical illness. This finding, reported in The Journal of Antibiotic Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, shows that similar approaches can be made in other […]
Deaths From Heart Disease and Stroke Rose Sharply During Pandemic
While the official national death toll for COVID-19 soars upward of 130,000, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), experts warn that the number of pandemic-related deaths is much higher. Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond analyzed national weekly death data from January to mid-April of this year and compared it with data from […]
Omicron infection linked with common respiratory illness in children
Although young children with Covid-19 generally experience mild illness, the omicron coronavirus variant has led to more children being hospitalized with Covid-19 in recent months at a rate five times higher than with the Delta variant. All the kids included in the study were below five and were not vaccinated. The current Omicron wave that […]