Practice Management News

Providing clinicians with pharmacist recommendations on a patient’s opioid use before the patient visits for management of chronic pain led to less opioid use and did not lead to an increase in pain scores, according to research recently published in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine.

Amazon, along with Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase, will form an independent health care company for their employees in the United States, the three companies have announced.

I recently heard a financial reporter refer to a 100-point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average as “a 100-point plunge,” which made me laugh.

The Consumer Technology Association recently held its annual CES Conference in Las Vegas, where the latest innovations in technology are showcased, and a variety of experts discuss key trends and emerging advances in all things tech.

Doctors and patients are more frequently engaged in the shared decision-making process now than they were in the past, according to findings recently published in Annals of Family Medicine.

Although overall postoperative misuse of opioids was low, refills and longer durations of prescriptions increased the risk for abuse, according to findings published in the BMJ.

In the United States, 42% of physicians report burnout and many also report depression, according to Medscape’s 2018 National Physician Burnout and Depression Report.

Hologic Inc. announced today that the FDA has granted premarket approval to the company’s Aptima HBV Quant Assay.

The Trump administration announced a new civil rights division within the Department of Health and Human Services that proposes to protect health care workers who refuse to render services that fall outside their religious or moral beliefs.

The FDA and the Federal Trade Commission sent joint warning letters to 11 companies for marketing and selling 12 illegal and unapproved products that claim to treat opioid addiction and withdrawal.