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Innovation
Death By A Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong
The U.S. government claimed that turning American medical charts into electronic records would make healthcare better, safer, and cheaper. Ten...
Clinical Care
Delayed Flu Shots Are More Effective, But Riskier Too
Waiting until closer to the start of flu season offers greater immunity. However, there are risks with delay, especially if...
Clinical Care
Diagnostic Errors, Managing Patient Data Top ECRI's Patient Safety List Again
A new report from the nonprofit patient safety organization pinpoints risks from EHRs, mobile health, behavioral health, clinician burnout, and...
Clinical Care
Military Doctors In Crosshairs Of A Budget Battle
The Department of Defense has reportedly drafted proposals to convert more than 17,000 medical positions into fighting and support positions...
Clinical Care
Reduce Adverse Drug Events Among High-Risk Patients in Your Community
Community consulting pharmacists work with patients' prescribers and pharmacies for as long as a year after hospital discharge.
Clinical Care
Racial Differences Persist for Bariatric Surgery Outcomes
Complication rates are lower for white patients when compared with black patients.
Clinical Care
Intermountain Cut the Number of Opioid Pills Prescribed by 30%
While the reduction is impressive, it's still short of the 40% reduction goal set forward by the Utah-based health system...
Clinical Care
Hidden FDA Reports Detail Harm Caused By Scores Of Medical Devices
The FDA has let medical device companies file reports of injuries and malfunctions outside a widely scrutinized public database, which...
Strategy
Cities And Counties Unlikely To Heed FDA Warning On Importing Foreign Drugs
Prices of drugs from overseas pharmacies can be as much as 70% lower than what people pay in the U.S....
Physician-Senators Square Off on Vaccine Mandates
If one person's choices on vaccines threaten other people's health, whose liberty is infringed?
Clinical Care
Children's Hospital Pharmacy Automation Expected to Slash Costs
Texas Children's Hospital is implementing the latest technology to dispense, store, and administer medications.
Clinical Care
Patients Experiment With Prescription Drugs To Fight Aging
A small but growing number of doctors prescribe drugs 'off-label' for their possible anti-aging effects, even though there is scant...