SPOTLIGHT -
Texas Hospitals Leveraging Social Media Amidst Hurricane Aftermath
The strain placed on health systems that have remained open has staff working long hours. Many hospitals have been turning to social media in search of reprieve.
Study: Drugs Approved Through FDA Expedited Review Offer Greatest Health Impacts
The findings are particularly relevant in light of the 21st Century Cures Act implemented last December and the Right to Try Act approved by the Senate last week.
Meta-Review of mHealth Applications in Children Endorses Viability
The review included nearly 30,000 young patients and found a "small, but significant" effect of mHealth as a viable modality in their treatment.
Surgeon Urges Use of New Tech to Reduce Excess Opioid Supply: "We cannot sit idly by."
Respected surgeon pens plea in Annals of Surgery urging increased use of electronic prescribing platforms to stem the tide of opiate misuse.
Financial Literacy Not Necessarily an Indicator of Medical Debt, Which Has Fallen
Two recent reports from the Urban Institute examined trends in the proportion of adults with medical debt, and whether such trends related to the citizens' confidence in their own financial literacy.
Study: Elderly Cancer Patients Benefited from Navigator Program
Costs and hospitalizations both fell, according to a University of Alabama at Birmingham Report.
Telehealth Growing in Appeal, Survey Finds
More consumers seem comfortable with the idea of such services, and telehealth providers may have an advocate in the new administation.
OxyContin Maker to Bankroll Virginia’s Prescription Monitoring System Upgrade
With words like “crisis” and “epidemic” increasingly murmured after “opioid,” the maker of the famous, and perhaps notorious, opioid joins the effort to curb abuse.
