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Payers who rapidly adopt effective “digital-first” healthcare services can thrive by providing patients low-cost, high-quality care, says Keith Algozzine of UCM Digital Health.

Advising patients on cannabis use can be challenging for clinicians – while it’s legal or approved for medical use in many U.S. states, because it’s illegal at the federal level, there’s lack of clinical standards and knowledge about interactions.

COVID-19 has accelerated the adoption of digital health. Understanding and meeting the challenges of six key trends can help healthcare businesses improve efficiency and customer satisfaction in the new e-health era.

As news about COVID-19 changes every day and the world awaits the distant promise of a vaccine, healthcare workers are now focused on the daily realities of treating the disease. This is, like everything else about the pandemic, an informational moving target. Every day there are new ideas, new evidence, old possibilities are disproved, and clinicians and researchers in trenches share the benefit of their experiences.

Payers who rapidly adopt effective “digital-first” healthcare services can thrive by providing patients low-cost, high-quality care, says Keith Algozzine of UCM Digital Health.

COVID-19 has accelerated the adoption of digital health. Understanding and meeting the challenges of six key trends can help healthcare businesses improve efficiency and customer satisfaction in the new e-health era.

The recently held National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) Annual Meeting provided an upbeat picture of community pharmacies trying to meet continuing pricing pressures by focusing on value-based services.

There have been millions invested in healthcare technology over the past 10 years focused primarily on improving the administrative efficiency of our healthcare system and providing greater access...

Recent cohort studies find racial disparities in the tools used to detect and assess the severity of sepsis. Geraldine Finlay, MD, discusses the critical implications these finding have for providers and patients.

Sepsis surveillance is critical for early identification of and actionable support for patients at risk for sepsis.

Review the benefits and drawbacks of kidney function estimating equations including Cockcroft-Gault, MDRD, and CKD-EPI.

Pharmacy teams ensure that each patient receives the right dose and optimizing renal dosing. Discover how to leverage tools to improve care and dosing for patients.

Critical thinking is a key skill developed during medical school that will impact how a student performs in practice. One medical school is teaching this skill in a unique way – through design thinking.

What happens when you design a medical school based on digital learning? That’s what the Noorda College of Osteopathic Medicine (Noorda-COM), a new medical school in Provo, Utah, has set out to find.

Simulation has long been used in medical education through cadavers and high-fidelity mannequins to help students practice procedures or interact with the human body in a low-stakes, real-life experience.

Medical school faculty around the world showed creativity and innovation in their response to the shift to remote instruction brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.