Practice Management News

A HIPAA-compliant, cloud-based telehealth solution that allows physicians to perform their hospital rounds virtually is now available, the digital health platform Zyter announced.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture and HHS have released the 2020 to 2025 dietary guidelines to encourage healthy eating within calorie limits.

Doctors dressed as clowns have been shown to improve symptoms and the psychological well-being of hospitalized children, according to a systematic review published in The BMJ.

There is a lot to learn about the new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that was identified in the United Kingdom, an infectious disease expert told Healio Primary Care.

Almost 10 months after COVID-19 was first diagnosed at Mount Sinai Health System, Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine arrived there Dec. 15.

The AMA has updated the CPT code set to include immunization and administration codes specific to the AstraZeneca and University of Oxford COVID-19 vaccine.

A physician practicing in a region hit hard by the opioid crisis helped develop a program that ascertains which patients in chronic pain who take opioids should undergo urine drug testing and how physicians can interpret these test results.

Pregnant women were “frequently” coprescribed opioids and psychotropic medications, researchers of a cross-sectional study wrote. These prescriptions sometimes led to antepartum hospitalization, they added.

Healio has been named one of the most innovative services of 2020 in PM360’s Annual Innovations Issue, which recognizes services, companies and products in the health care and life science industries.

The FDA has approved an intentional genomic alteration process in a line of domestic pigs that is intended to eliminate alpha-gal sugar on the pigs’ cell surfaces.