- University of Nevada School of Medicine, Aurora Diagnostics Western Pathology Announce Partnership (medicine.nevada.edu)
The University of Nevada School of Medicine and Aurora Diagnostics,…announced today a new educational and clinical affiliation,.. This unique public-private partnership is designed to enrich learning opportunities for students at the School of Medicine,…
- Renown donates $250,000 to wellness center (rgj.com)
Renown Health contributed $250,000 to Northern Nevada HOPES to help build its upcoming community wellness center. To date, HOPES has raised $2.75 million towards its capital campaign goal of $5 million to build the Stacie Mathewson Community Wellness Center.
- How Specialty Pharmacies Increase Value (specialtypharmacytimes.com)
Amy Grogg, PharmD, at AmerisourceBergen Specialty Group discusses how the Affordable Care Act has emphasized the importance of specialty pharmacy services.
- Canadian Pharmacists Association Launches “Pharmacare 2.0” (pharmacists.ca)
CPhA today launched Pharmacare 2.0 – a comprehensive multi-phased consultation to develop a national consensus for a pan-Canadian pharmacare framework. clear evidence for policymakers and a clear national consensus on priorities ….ensure that all Canadians have access to pharmacy services and appropriate drug therapies."
- Antibiotic-resistant superbugs: ‘Health crisis of this generation’ (fiercehealthcare.com)
….the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs, calling the dangerous infections the "health crisis of this generation... "Overuse and misuse of life-saving antibiotics has led to the spread of infections that are now impervious to the medications….at least 23,000 people die as a direct result of these infections, The crisis is no longer "looming," it is here now…..
- Do advocates overestimate the benefits of personalized medicine? (fiercehealthcare.com)
..advocates of personalized or precision medicine may have set up unrealistic expectations about its promise while leaving many questions unanswered,…."Even though personalized medicine will be useful to better understand rare diseases and identify novel therapeutic targets….the promise of improved risk prediction, behavior change, lower costs, and gains in public health for common diseases seem unrealistic,"….
- Hospitals hope to beat Yelp at its own game (cnbc.com)
With online reviews more important that ever, hospitals are now getting into the physician ratings game. Instead of relying on popular review websites…hospitals want to "out-Yelp Yelp" by sharing patient satisfaction surveys with the general public,…..That's because 77 percent of consumers begin their search for health care online,…
- OSHA to crack down on hospitals that don’t protect nurses from injury (fiercehealthcare.com)
Noncompliant hospitals will face fines up to $70K. The Occupational Health and Safety Administration has announced a new initiative to drastically increase scrutiny of injuries among hospital nursing staff….. step up regulation of occupational risks in healthcare settings in the wake of an April report…
- Doc groups call for ICD-10 grace period (fiercepracticemanagement.com)
The country's four largest state medical associations (Texas, California, Florida and New York) say two years of 'on-the-job training' will avert financial disaster for physician practices…"We believe that two years of transition time, on-the-job learning by physicians--plus our continued ICD-10 educational activities--will result in a much less disastrous transition to this overwhelmingly complicated new coding system,"......
- Hope And Hype For New Type Of Antidepressant (forbes.com)
…… one an entrepreneur, the other a Columbia University psychiatrist – are claiming today that a new combination of experimental medicines may prevent suicidal thoughts….. seems like a stretch based on what is actually being published on D-cycloserine – and NeuroRx is making a mistake by emphasizing that result in its press release this morning…data come from only seven patients,….