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This Software Is Changing Drug Discovery
Plus, a sensor the size of a magazine wirelessly monitors patients, and more health innovations to marvel at.
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Quality & Safety
Ohio Health System Opens Grocer In Food Desert
ProMedica's pop health institute features fresh foods, education and employment in a renovated facility
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Opioids Add to a Sharp Rise in Hospitalizations, Costs
Health Affairs study finds that the cost of care for such patients has more than tripled in 10 years, up to $15B, as the epidemic has worsened.
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Trending at H&HN
Polypharmacy Is Counting Your Pills; Researchers Find a Biological Source of Happiness
Plus, patients get involved in emergency department treatment; California may lose more physicians and more in this week's health care roundup
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New Bacterial Threat Known as Elizabethkingia Emerges
The origin of the Wisconsin strain seems to be based in the community, but hospitals should be alert for signs. An unrelated strain has emerged in Illinois.
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Hit Hard by Opioid Epidemic, Virginia Rolls Out 14 ED Strategies to Combat Drug Use
Hospitals use prescription monitoring programs, dedicated prescriber to battle overdose deaths in the Old Dominion State.
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Doctors Urge CMS, Joint Commission to Rethink Pain Treatment to Help Stem Opioid Epidemic
Coalition of providers believes that requirements have helped to 'foster dangerous prescribing practices.'
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CMS Primary Care Initiative Leaps Some Hurdles from the Past
Focus on payer cooperation and assistance with up-front costs may encourage adoption
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Weekly Reading: Patient-reported Outcomes Gain Attention; Drone-delivered Care; Pfizer, Allergan Toss Deal
Also, will Yelp be a factor in hospital ratings? What are the health care costs of air pollution?
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Throwback Thursday
Franklin Roosevelt’s Surgeon General’s ‘Six-Point Program’
We throw it back to 1936, when the surgeon general’s top priorities included wiping out tuberculosis and boosting access to cancer treatments. We also look at how a hospital managed a surge of patients after a flood.
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