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The Organ Transplant and Procurement Network (OTPN) is set to undergo modernization and improvement after being criticized for lack of transparency, long waits, mishandling of organs, and the number of people who die on the waitlist each year. The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has launched the OTPN modernization project, which will focus on accountability. The current system is outdated and has been responsible for 70 deaths between 2010 and 2020, according to a 2022 senate report. The HRSA plans to take steps, such as creating a new dashboard, to provide transparency and better serve patients and their families. Additional modernization will focus on overhauling the operations of the OTPN system to ensure higher compliance and a greater focus on patient safety. Organ transplants and the OTPN disproportionately affect the Black community in the US. About 30% of the ONTP waitlist is Black Americans, and about 90% are waiting for kidney transplants. The HRSA’s plan hopes to address the inequality by improving accountability, transparency, and systems of organ retrieval and matching. The changes will benefit patients, and physicians might be able to see more of their patients receive the life-saving transplants they need.

For the first time, Uber Health users, including healthcare providers and health plans, will be able to manage prescription delivery from any pharmacy in their service area via the same platform they use to coordinate patient transportation. This launch allows providers to offer a comprehensive suite of care solutions that extend beyond the four walls of a clinic and is intended to improve patient experiences and health outcomes.

The event will be held on Tuesday, April 11th, 2023 from 5:00pm – 9:00pm at The Hermitage Hotel in Nashville, TN, in the Grand Ballroom. Tennessee Oncology’s Stephen Schleicher, MD, and Larry Bilbrey will be your hosts for this one-night event, which will provide commentary on how cancer care has become more complicated over the last 15 years and how data is disrupting delivery today and in the future, from the private sector to tech companies.

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.

According to a University of Washington research, only 40% of rural counties nationally had at least one licensed physician who could prescribe buprenorphine in 2016. The analysis discovered that by 2020, that number had increased to 63%. The increase was attributed by the study to modifications in federal regulations that permit NPs, PAs, and other healthcare professionals to prescribe buprenorphine. Only doctors could perform this in the past, and many remote counties lacked any. In 2002, Suboxone received approval from federal regulators, providing a new option for addiction treatment in communities without methadone facilities. Marshalltown, a town of 27,000 people encircled by rural areas, offers a feasible alternative, according to Andrea Storjohann, NP.