Reducing Malpractice Risk Through More Effective Communication

A greater proportion of patients with type 1 diabetes who used automated insulin delivery systems vs multiple daily injections achieved the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) glycemic measure.

This study found that certain characteristics in linked electronic health record data across episodes of care can help identify patients with Alzheimer disease and related dementias at high risk of 30-day readmissions.

Limiting health-related social needs screening to lower-income areas would reduce screening burdens; however, this study found a 2-stage screening approach based on geography to be suboptimal.

Medicaid’s Institution for Mental Diseases (IMD) rule bars federal funding for psychiatric facilities with more than 16 beds, but findings indicate that state waivers allowing treatment of serious mental illness in IMDs do not increase overall psychiatric hospitalizations.

The foundation of medically integrated pharmacy includes 7 critical pillars. This commentary focuses on the benefits of 3 of those pillars: abandonment, adherence, and access/affordability.

Two-thirds of pharmaceutical companies did not proactively release the launch price of their medications from 2022 to 2024.