Medical economics
Emailing your doctor could soon cost you
Email has become an easy and essential form of communication between patients and physicians—so much so that doctors are deluged daily with messages from patients.
Feb 10, 2023
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News tagged with patient access
Cardiology
Exploring the capabilities of vascular monitoring technology
Research led by Henry Ford Health's Lalathaksha Kumbar, M.D., evaluated and validated a remote access monitoring technology that can predict vascular access blockages in dialysis patients.
Jan 18, 2023
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Medications
Study finds 'startling' inequities in end-of-life opioid treatment
Older Black and Hispanic patients with advanced cancer are less likely than white patients to receive opioid medications for pain relief in the last weeks of life, according to a study led by investigators at Harvard-affiliated ...
Jan 18, 2023
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Medical economics
IBD outcomes improved with financial assistance program
A financial assistance program (FAP) improves outcomes for indigent patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to a study recently published in Pathophysiology.
Dec 12, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Ethnic and racial disparities found in buprenorphine treatment
A quartet of researchers, three with Harvard Medical School's Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Technology Assessment, and the fourth with McGill University, has found that there are ethnic and racial disparities ...
Medical economics
Telehealth makes hearing health care more equitable
According to the World Health Organization, 1.6 billion people across the globe are living with hearing loss. Much of that is preventable, stemming from excessive noise, untreated ear infections, and exposure to ototoxic ...
Sep 20, 2022
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Other
CVS to acquire home healthcare company Signify Health for $8B: What it means for patients
CVS Health on Monday agreed to an $8 billion acquisition of Signify Health, a healthcare platform that uses analytics and technology to pair clinicians with patients for home-based visits.
Sep 7, 2022
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Medications
Legal use of medicinal cannabis on the rise in Australia
New research from the University of Sydney's Lambert Initiative finds most Australians are still medicating with illicit cannabis, although numbers accessing prescription products have risen dramatically.
Aug 25, 2022
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Cardiology
When heart-assisting implants could save a life, patients who are Black or female don't get them as often
Black people and women with severe heart failure who might be good candidates for surgery to implant a heart-assisting device have a lower chance of actually getting that operation than white patients, or male patients, a ...
Aug 1, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Benefits of pre-surgical immunotherapy were independent of race in patients with aggressive breast cancer
Treatment outcomes were similar between Black and non-Black patients with triple-negative breast cancer who received neoadjuvant durvalumab (Imfinzi) plus chemotherapy, according to phase I/II clinical trial results published ...
Jul 29, 2022
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