Fierce Healthcare

JULY 18, 2023

Fewer target Provider Relief Fund (PRF) payments sent to hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic’s opening year reached hospitals serving patient populations with more Hispanic/Latino Americans, acc | The government watchdog found that hospitals serving heavier concentrations of Hispanic/Latino Americans were tied to lower Provider Relief Fund payments (..)

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Hospitals 98

STAT

JULY 14, 2023

Not-for-profit hospitals have been cutting ties with Moody’s Investors Service in recent years, citing the high cost and time commitment required to maintain their relationships with the rating agency. Increasingly, that means cutting a bond rating. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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Hospitals 98

STAT

JULY 7, 2023

The new policy initiatives target some of the usual suspects: surprise billing , which was restricted in 2020 yet persists as health care providers exploit loopholes ; short-term insurance policies that often fail to cover essential treatment; and high-interest credit cards and payment plans especially marketed to help patients cover medical debt.

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Hospitals Insurance 102

Fierce Healthcare

JULY 19, 2023

Relief funding distributed to hospitals across 2020 and 2021 “may have been larger than was necessary for many hospitals,” researchers wrote in a recent review of more than 4,400 hospitals’ financi | A recent Rand Corporation analysis found that 2020/2021 relief funds kept about 30% of hospitals from entering new financial distress.

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Hospitals 75

STAT

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Coronary stenting is, by some measures , the most overused procedure in hospitals. In 2020, Medicare started paying physicians to place stents, balloons, and perform other procedures designed to open clogged coronary arteries outside of hospitals, in less expensive outpatient settings.

Hospitals 145

Hospitals Insurance 145

STAT

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The data mark a steady rise in sales under the 340B Drug Discount Program, which requires drugmakers to offer discounts that are typically estimated to be 25% to 50% — but could be higher — off all outpatient drugs to hospitals and clinics that primarily serve lower-income patients. billion in 2016.

Hospitals 134

Hospitals 134

STAT

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO — It was during some of the darkest days of the pandemic — November 2020 — when Melissa Lawson, 36, was helicoptered from an emergency room in Santa Rosa, Calif., to a hospital here, her blood so thick with white blood cells doctors thought she might not survive the night.

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Hospitals 143

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

A study aimed at quantifying excess antibiotic use in an acute UK hospital found that nearly a quarter of antibiotic days of therapy (DOTs) were unnecessary. Assessment of the appropriateness of antibiotic prescribing in an acute UK hospital using a national audit tool: a single centre retrospective survey.

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Hospitals 59

STAT

MARCH 7, 2023

But a new partnership between the electronics retailer and Atrium Health, part of the nonprofit health system Advocate Health, is a sign of how big tech and retail companies are getting in on the booming hospital-at-home market. Atrium Health, meanwhile, launched its home hospital program in 2020 and has since served over 6,300 patients.

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Hospitals Communication 98

STAT

JANUARY 24, 2024

In the spring of 2020, my almost 4-year-old daughter Livie sustained a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) when a tree branch fell on her head in our backyard, devastating our whole family.

Hospitals 144

Hospitals 144

Omnicell

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Randall Lipps Chairman, President, CEO, and Founder, Omnicell Today, I was excited to join thousands of registrants representing pharmacy, nursing, informatics, and healthcare leaders for the launch of Omnicell Illuminate 2020 , one of the year’s biggest digital events dedicated to technology-driven medication management.

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Omnicell Controlled Substances Compounding Hospitals 52

STAT

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The study of 18,000 children who were treated at 49 pediatric hospitals in the U.S. between 2004 and 2020 found that those who had cranial surgery, which involves removing or disconnecting the brain portion where seizures occur, were 83% more likely to be alive after 10 years.

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Insurance Hospitals 136

STAT

APRIL 28, 2023

She and a Wunderkind from the class of 2020, Altaf Saadi , assistant professor of neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, spoke at a virtual STAT event Thursday about their journeys in science and medicine — what their work is, what brought them to the field, and what keeps them going.

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Medical Schools Hospitals 118

STAT

JANUARY 3, 2023

The number of people in the United States hospitalized with Covid-19 is about to surpass the figure reached during this summer’s spike, federal data show , as a confluence of factors — from the continued evolution of the coronavirus to holiday gatherings — drives transmission. Read the rest…

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Hospitals 102

STAT

MAY 15, 2023

In the early days of the Covid pandemic, gravely ill patients began to fill America’s hospitals. In a 2021 APC survey, more than 80 pharmacies nationwide reported they had provided compounded versions of those essential drugs to hospitals under the temporary guidance.

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Compounding Pharmacies Compounding Hospitals FDA 98

Pharma Marketing Network

APRIL 27, 2021

HBA Honorable Mentor 2020-21, Dr. Rod MacKenzie. The post Dr. Rod MacKenzie, 2020-2021 HBA Honorable Mentor appeared first on Pharma Marketing Network. Rod MacKenzie, PhD, is Chief Development Officer and Executive Vice President for Pfizer.

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Hospitals 52

European Pharmaceutical Review

JULY 14, 2022

The affected product was distributed nationwide to wholesalers, hospitals and Department of Defense in the US between 10 June 2020 and 26 June 2020. Wholesalers or hospitals with an existing inventory of the lot should stop use and distribution and quarantine immediately. The full details are listed below: Products.

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Hospitals 105

STAT

OCTOBER 24, 2022

On, December 9, 2020, my mom, brother, and I waited in a cold, wintery drizzle outside the local hospital in my hometown in southern Colorado, anxiously hoping to be allowed to see my dad for the last time.

Hospitals 85

Hospitals 85

STAT

OCTOBER 14, 2022

By 2020, for the first time, less than half of U.S. practicing physicians were employed by hospitals, and another 122,000 were employed by corporations of various kinds — health insurers, pharmacy chains, private equity-backed companies. physicians worked in physician-owned settings: more than 300,000 U.S.

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Insurance Hospitals 111

STAT

JANUARY 3, 2023

More specifically, 70 of the 93 top-selling drugs covered by the Medicare Part B program – which are typically pricier medicines that are administered by physicians or in hospitals – between 2018 and 2020 would have been subject to inflationary rebates each year, according to the analysis published in JAMA.

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Immunization Hospitals 98

Pharma Mirror

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Increasing burden of chronic diseases and rising awareness about necessity of early warning signs are fuelling the demand of remote patient monitors With the COVID-19 pandemic, health systems or hospitals rapidly adopted remote patient monitoring technology to maintain social distancing and thereby control viral spread. million by.

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Hospitals 96

STAT

JANUARY 31, 2024

” said Ameet Sarpatwari, the assistant director of the Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, and Law at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Experts say that the Singulair incident highlights a flawed system, both in the U.S. “Are we at the right balance?

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Adverse Reactions FDA Labelling Hospitals 121

Pharmaceutical Technology

APRIL 3, 2023

Treatment is then conducted as a clinical trial by the National Cancer Center Hospital to confirm its safety and efficacy. Eisai will be responsible for providing tazemetostat to the National Cancer Center Hospital free of charge.

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Hospitals Insurance FDA 98

Pharma Times

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Heart failure accounted for approximately 90,000 hospital admissions in England in 2019 to 2020

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Hospitals 62

STAT

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The inclusion of race in dozens of these tools has sparked vigorous debates and roiled medicine since 2020, when many physicians began pointing out that the tools rely on faulty science that depicts race as biological, and that they can harm some already marginalized patients by making it seem they are healthier than they really are.

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Hospitals 133

STAT

DECEMBER 14, 2022

When Covid-19’s first surge hit Boston in 2020, biomedical engineer Scot Mackeil knew every single ventilator mattered. Recruited by a local hospital to vet ventilators from a federal stockpile, he examined hundreds of the life-sustaining machines.

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Hospitals 98

pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

One important capability driving the company’s significant growth in the last twelve months is its ability to anticipate patient flow in hospitals. In September 2020, NHSX , the organisation driving the digital transformation of health and social care, announced a £250 million investment into injecting more AI technology into UK healthcare.

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Hospitals Pharmaceutical Companies Pharmaceutical Companies Patient Care 118

pharmaphorum

JANUARY 13, 2022

In 2020, over half of total spending on brand medicines went to the supply chain, middlemen and other stakeholders, overtaking the amount going to drug manufacturers for the first time, according to a new study. ” says the report.

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Payment Processing Generic Medicine Insurance Hospitals 111

Board Vitals - Pharmacist

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Jen Trachtenberg (@askdrjen) on Sep 24, 2020 at 3:41pm PDT. doctor.mike) on Sep 29, 2020 at 6:54am PDT. A post shared by Suchismita (Tia) Paul, MD (@drspaulderm) on Sep 18, 2020 at 7:55am PDT. A post shared by Nii-Daako Darko, DO, MBA, FACS (@drniidarko) on Aug 17, 2020 at 5:05am PDT. Mike Varshavski, MD. doctor.mike .

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Hospitals Medical Schools Patient Care 98

Pharmacy Is Right For Me

APRIL 3, 2023

The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that the employment of pharmacists will increase by 3% from 2020 to 2030. Pharmacists can work in a variety of settings, including hospitals, community pharmacies, research laboratories, and government agencies. For example, they can become clinical pharmacists and work in hospitals.

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Research Laboratories Community Pharmacies Hospitals 130

pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Dinesh Saralaya has been a consultant respiratory physician and honorary senior lecturer at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust since 2014. He leads the severe asthma service at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the Respiratory Clinical Trials unit at the Bradford Institute for Health Research (BIHR).

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Hospitals 92

European Pharmaceutical Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

This could be important to treat KRAS G12C -mutated cancers, as the KRAS G12C protein regenerates every 24−48 hours, the company stated, elucidating research published in 2020 in the journal Cancer Discovery. Mirati Therapeutics also shared in a press release that adagrasib has shown clinically to penetrate the central nervous system.

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Chemotherapy Hospitals 98

Omnicell

JANUARY 10, 2023

Interestingly, the 340B law was actually included in a veterans healthcare bill (the Veterans Health Care Act) that also established a separate drug pricing program for veterans hospitals. It also raised the DSH payment cap for some rural and small urban hospitals to 12%. Hospitals sued the agency. However, the U.S

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Hospitals Omnicell Insurance Documentation 96

pharmaphorum

JANUARY 6, 2021

Ultimately, it’s a team sport between Kite and Gilead and the 100-plus qualifying hospitals across Europe, all of which have been individually trained and assessed to ensure they are fully compliant with the necessary procedures and meet exacting standards. UK-CTH-2020-11-0075 | Date of preparation: December 2020.

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Hospitals Communication 119

pharmaphorum

MAY 30, 2022

“The pandemic has further led to loss of workforce, causing a bleak outlook for hospital output around the globe, and leading to reduced access and continuity of care,” he said. “We have clear momentum in the market and will be the first to bring autonomous technology to European hospitals.”

Hospitals 116

Hospitals 116

Pharmaceutical Technology

JULY 21, 2022

In June 2020, these antibodies, discovered at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, were licensed to AstraZeneca. In May, the company supplied the first doses of the antibody therapy to Swiss hospitals for Covid-19 prevention. Currently, the drug combination is offered for preventive usage and the federal government reimburses it.

Hospitals 105

Hospitals 105

The Checkup by Singlecare

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Although amlodipine doesnt typically impact your heart rate, other antihypertensive medications can, according to Hosam Hmoud, MD, a cardiology fellow at Northwell Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, New York. As a 2020 systematic review notes, high-dose alcohol consumption increases heart rates for up to 24 hours after drinking.

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Hospitals FDA 98