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Type 2 Diabetes in Young Patients Spiked in Year 1 of COVID-19 Pandemic

Drug Topics

Using electronic medical record data from 2018-2020 obtained from 24 medical centers across the US, including Johns Hopkins, University of Colorado, and Mayo Clinic institutions, a new study suggests rates of youth onset type 2 diabetes increased 77% during the first year of the pandemic.

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No longer brushed off: A Minnesota clinic tries to rewrite medicine’s approach to miscarriage

STAT

— By the time Taylor Teske came to be sitting on an exam table in an obstetrician’s office in Minnesota, her medical records marked a devastating journey: nine pregnancies, one baby, eight miscarriages. The first miscarriage happened in June 2018, almost as soon as she found out she was pregnant.

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Five Lessons Learned About Antimicrobial Stewardship Metrics

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It may be derived from work completed inthe microbiology lab, unitsdispensed from the pharmacy, administrations performed by nurses, expenditures produced from drug purchases, documentation within any area of the electronic medical record, extraction from supplemental tools or data warehouses, and so much more.

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Include penicillin allergy history in medicines reconciliation to ensure accurate status, says RPS

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

Mislabelled penicillin allergy Figures show around 6% of people have a penicillin allergy label on their medical record, equating to four million people in the UK. The researchers had estimated that incorrect penicillin allergy records affect 2.7 million people in England.

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Roivant spinout Datavant merges with Ciox to form $7bn health data giant

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San Francisco-based Datavant was spun out of biopharma entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy’s Roivant group in 2018, and operates a cloud-based platform that helps life sciences and healthcare groups manage, secure and share anonymised data.

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When Worlds Collide: The Theory of Real-World Evidence Meets Reality

The FDA Law Blog

RWD can be collected from a wide range of sources, such as electronic health records, registries, administrative claims, pharmacy data, and feedback from wearables and mobile technology. In fact, in 2018, FDA emphasized that leveraging the use of RWD and RWE in regulatory decision-making is “a top strategic priority for the FDA.”

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Care … Amazon’s Revolutionary Move into Healthcare

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2018 — Haven, PillPack, and Aiva. Amazon’s public charge into the US healthcare market started in 2018. By 2020, Amazon had built or had agreements in place to offer a very impressive portfolio of patient-focused healthcare services around primary and urgent care considering it had only started on this journey in early 2018.