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FDA: Don’t use certain test strips to monitor blood thinner dosing
The Food and Drug Administration Friday warned physicians and patients who use medical devices to monitor levels of the blood thinner warfarin that certain test strips used with the devices may provide inaccurate results and should not be relied on to adjust the drug dosage.
AHA Stat Blog: Study on hospital and physician prices misses the mark
The authors of a new study on hospital and physician prices “use limited data to draw broad conclusions,” writes AHA Executive Vice President Tom Nickels in the AHA Stat blog.
HRSA to award grants to expand rural substance use disorder services
The Health Resources and Services Administration's Federal Office of Rural Health Policy plans to award about 75 grants of up to $1 million each to expand opioid and other substance use disorder services in high-risk rural communities.
Senate hearing examines role of primary care in reducing costs
The Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee today held a hearing to examine how primary care affects health care costs and outcomes.
Are You Up to the Challenge?
The 2019 AHA Innovation Challenge is a juried award program to source and spread innovative technological approaches that address social determinants of health. The World Health Organization defines social determinants of health as the circumstances in which people are born, grow up, live, work and age and the systems put into place to deal with illness.
A Startup That Bears Watching in Primary Care Market
Backed by private investors ranging from former Goldman Sachs’ CFO David Viniar to BlackRock’s Larry Fink, 98point6 is melding a direct primary care subscription model with virtual care approach to give consumers a low-cost way to establish a relationship with a primary care physician.
Why Amazon Has Inside Track to Lead Health Care Disruption
As investors and health care organizations place their bets on companies that will have the greatest impact in disrupting health care, many in the financial community have made it clear who they think will win the battle. More than 600 respondents to a recent poll by CB Insights, a market data and research firm serving venture capitalists, investment bankers and others, chose Amazon as the big tech company that will have the largest sway on health care by nearly a 2-1 margin over Google and Apple. Microsoft finished a distant fourth.
Study calls for CJR strategies to address safety-net hospitals’ disadvantage
Hospitals that serve a disproportionate share of low-income patients were less likely to qualify for financial rewards in the first year of Medicare’s Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement model.
House holds hearing on preventing gun violence
A witness called for a broad multidisciplinary, multi-strategy approach supported by science and research, similar to the approach used to prevent motor vehicle injuries and death.
House hearings examine threats to preexisting condition protections
The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee today held a