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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.
May 11, 2016
Matt O'Connor
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Plus, a sensor the size of a magazine wirelessly monitors patients, and more health innovations to marvel at.
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Ohio Health System Opens Grocer In Food Desert

ProMedica's pop health institute features fresh foods, education and employment in a renovated facility
May 9, 2016
Jeff Ferenc
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ProMedica, Toledo, Ohio, recently opened a full-service grocery store in a renovated building that now provides healthful and affordable food choices in a formerly designated food desert.
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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.
May 5, 2016
Marty Stempniak
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Health Affairs study finds that the cost of care for such patients has more than tripled over a decade as the heroin and prescription painkiller epidemic has worsened.


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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
April 29, 2016
Matt O'Connor
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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.
April 22, 2016
Paul Barr
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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.
April 18, 2016
Marty Stempniak
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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.'
April 15, 2016
Marty Stempniak
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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
April 13, 2016
Paul Barr
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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?
April 8, 2016
Matt O'Connor
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Also, Yelp jockeys to be a factor in hospital ratings, and air pollution costs health care big, in this week's roundup of health care news.


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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.
April 7, 2016
Paul Barr
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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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