Practice Management News

Safe storage and disposal messages were not explicitly mentioned on many package inserts for opioid analgesics and were inconsistent across opioid types, according to findings published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Kratom, a derivative of an Asian evergreen tree, that contains the stimulant mitragynine and narcotic 7-hydroxymitraginine, is used by as many as 5 million people in the United States. The substance has been touted as an alternative approach to pain management.

PARIS — A web-based lifestyle counselling program for patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease demonstrated long-term efficacy and non-inferiority compared with group-based lifestyle counselling, according to a presentation at the International Liver Congress 2018.

Nearly two in three physicians in Georgia are multisite practitioners — that is, they have multiple hospital privileges and/or work in multisite group practices — according to findings recently published in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine.

PARIS — Beginning Wednesday, April 11, Healio Gastroenterology and Liver Disease will provide live coverage from the International Liver Congress 2018.

ORLANDO, Fla. — A presenter here at Hospital Medicine 2018 encouraged attendees to be aware of their subconscious bias and to connect with people beyond the context of the doctor-patient relationship.

In a new commentary published in Annals of Internal Medicine, experts suggest that the FDA’s Digital Health Software Precertification Program may lead to less rigorous FDA oversight and studies of safety and effectiveness of marketed digital health apps, with uncertain patient outcomes.

Ischemic heart disease was still the No. 1 cause of death in the United States from 1990 to 2016, according to findings recently published by the U.S. Burden of Disease collaborators and appearing in JAMA.

The estimated yearly cost of drug-related morbidity and mortality caused by nonoptimized medication therapy — those prescriptions that are unfilled, contribute to a new health problem or are not exactly the right medication or dose — was more than half a trillion dollars in 2016, according to findings recently published in Annals of Pharmacotherapy.

In the first entry to our Healio Legal Perspectives resource center, experts from Epstein Becker and Green discuss how to inoculate a health care practice against the realities of sexual harassment in the health care sector.