Practice Management News

From 2017 to 2018, the rate of all drug overdose deaths decreased 4.1%, prescription opioid-involved overdose deaths decreased 13.5% and heroin deaths dropped 4%, according to the CDC. However, agency also reported that deaths involving synthetic opioids, excluding methadone, increased by 10% during that same period.

Some of the greatest strains on health care providers — managing numerous patients with CVD, physician burnout, insufficient capacity — have been significantly improved by physician-pharmacist collaborations, according to experts.

President Donald J. Trump’s tweet on Feb. 7 suggesting that “as the weather starts to warm & [COVID-19] hopefully becomes weaker, and then gone” has prompted a debate among medical professionals about the seasonality of the disease.

President Donald J. Trump declared a national emergency today in response to COVID-19, a move he said will provide $50 billion to fight the pandemic.

Researchers said they have developed a novel tool that uses artificial intelligence to help ICU physicians ascertain if a patient does not require an intervention and intense monitoring — allowing them to focus instead on more critical or unstable patients.

In the ED, time is critical. Researchers have developed an app that they say can help physicians cut the time they need to retrieve clinical information from systems outside the electronic health records from several minutes to as little as 5 seconds in an emergency setting.

Patients will soon have what HHS called “unprecedented” secure and free access to their health information.

Institutions are limiting employee travel and medical societies are canceling or postponing their annual medical conferences because of concerns about COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

Some sleep experts want to establish a permanent standard time nationwide.

Total annual spending per person with employer-sponsored health insurance increased 18.4% to nearly $5,900 between 2014 and 2018, according to a Health Care Cost Institute report.