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The extensive training requirements and caps on patients treated have been removed. That means all prescriptions for buprenorphine now require only a standard DEA registration number.

In total, 1,732 grants were included in the study. The grants were mostly given to researchers in the United States (93%), and the majority of recipients were men (61%). Researchers at four institutions received more than one-third of the grants: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, MD Anderson Cancer Center, and John Hopkins University.

To assist retail pharmacies in filling the care gap left by physician shortages and transitioning to an effective, patient-centric clinical services business model, real-time communication and seamless data sharing among pharmacists, diagnostic providers, physicians, and patients are required. Linking the care team in a way that allows for not only efficient care delivery but also efficient provider billing with full interoperability will be critical to pharmacies’ long-term success as clinical service providers.

Mike Serbinis, CEO of League; Pete Anevski, CEO of Progyny; John Erwin, CEO of Carenet Health; Mick Mazour, president of Carenet Health; BJ Schaknowski, CEO of symplr; Tanja Dowe, CEO of the Debiopharm Innovation Fund; Derek Streat, Co-founder and CEO of DexCare; and Kimberly O’Loughlin, CEO of Health Recovery Solutions, provide their thoughts on this year’s meeting, with value-based care, healthcare technology, hospital medicine, and the overall economy being the familiar strings.

The merit-based incentive payment system (MIPS), which adjusts clinician Medicare Part B payments for performance on quality, cost, improvement activities, and use of certified EHR technology for interoperability, along with EOM quality measurement systems for Medicare, should ideally be meaningful to physicians and patients and coordinated to magnify the quality signal. How do these novel methods compare, then, in terms of genuinely comprehending the standard of cancer care provided to Medicare beneficiaries?

Reducing unneeded lab work in the hospital setting is a monumental task. It is a kind of security blanket, and it is automated in many EMRs. For clinicians, seeing that lab values are stable can be a reassurance while waiting for treatment to take effect. And everyone has their story of the one patient for whom a change in routine daily labs prompted urgent intervention.