Coverage of our peer-reviewed research and news reporting in the healthcare and mainstream press.
POLITICO’s Thursday Morning eHealth report included a study published in the February 2019 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® (AJMC®). The study, “Does Comparing Cesarean Delivery Rates Influence Women’s Choice of Obstetric Hospital?” found that providing women with an interactive tool to compare cesarean delivery rates across hospitals in their community improved women’s familiarity with variation in cesarean delivery rates but did not increase their likelihood of selecting hospitals with lower rates.
A study published in the January health information technology issue of AJMC®, “Understanding the Relationship Between Data Breaches and Hospital Advertising Expenditures,” was highlighted in an article from DigitalCommerce360. The study, which estimated the relationship between data breaches and hospital advertising expenditures, found that a data breach was associated with a 64% increase in annual advertising expenditures.
The National Pharmaceutical Council’s Wednesday CER Daily Newsfeed mentioned a study published in the February issue of AJMC®, “Process Reengineering and Patient-Centered Approach Strengthen Efficiency in Specialized Care.” The study found that improving efficiency is complex and requires a multimodal approach. The researchers concluded that health information systems, patient feedback, and multidisciplinary teams are components that can improve clinical processes.
Tuesday’s CER Daily Newsfeed included an article from AJMC®. The article, “Getting Ready for the Use of Real-World Evidence,” covered the FDA’s launching of a process that will give real-world data generated outside clinical trials more importance than they have had in the past—with implications for payers, drug companies, and most of all, patients.
Urticaria Diagnosis Challenged by Overlapping Pruritic Skin Conditions
April 23rd 2025Urticaria is complicated to diagnose by its symptomatic overlap with other skin conditions and the frequent misclassification in literature of distinct pathologies like vasculitic urticaria and bullous pemphigus.
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New Research Challenges Assumptions About Hospital-Physician Integration, Medicare Patient Mix
April 22nd 2025On this episode of Managed Care Cast, Brady Post, PhD, lead author of a study published in the April 2025 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care®, challenges the claim that hospital-employed physicians serve a more complex patient mix.
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Personalized Care Key as Tirzepatide Use Expands Rapidly
April 15th 2025Using commercial insurance claims data and the US launch of tirzepatide as their dividing point, John Ostrominski, MD, Harvard Medical School, and his team studied trends in the use of both glucose-lowering and weight-lowering medications, comparing outcomes between adults with and without type 2 diabetes.
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ACOs’ Focus on Rooting Out Fraud Aligns With CMS Vision Under Oz
April 23rd 2025Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are increasingly playing the role of data sleuths as they identify and report trends of anomalous billing in hopes of salvaging their shared savings. This mission dovetails with that of CMS, which under the new administration plans to prioritize rooting out fraud, waste, and abuse.
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