March 2015
Health information technology is improving patient safety. It can also help to create new kinds of errors, which may potentially harm patients in a phenomenon some are calling “e-iatrogenesis.”
Not too long ago, retail health clinics were viewed with wariness—and worse—by other health care players. Now their value is recognized.
Richard G. Stefanacci, DO, MGH, MBA, AGSF, CMD
Americans are going to emergency departments for traumatic brain injuries in record numbers. What’s behind the increase? What are obstacles to care?
Ibrahim M Abbass, RPh, PhD ;
Trudy M. Krause, DrPH, CPHQ ;
Salim S. Virani MD, PhD ;
J. Michael Swint, PhD ;
Wenyaw Chan, PhD
Departments
Legislation & Regulation
The force may be leaving the AMA as it seeks another ICD-10 delay. The politics are lining up so this may be at long last the year it gets implemented.
Richard Mark Kirkner
Medication Management
Most Part D plans have such systems, and beneficiaries appreciate the lower copayments. Independent drugstores say they are shut out—and want in.
Thomas Reinke
Formulary Files
Krishna Rutvij Patel, PharmD
Plan Watch
Provider-sponsored Healthfirst scores well in the stars program despite serving a disadvantaged New York City population
Frank Diamond
Tomorrow's Medicine
Enteromedics’s Maestro Rechargeable System was approved when the FDA considered weight differences after the yearlong trial was officially over
Thomas Morrow, MD
Managed Care Outlook