Medicine has come into the electronic age with telemedicine, which provides wider reaching care in an era when there is a projected doctor shortage.
Today’s evolving healthcare delivery models increasingly require organized, careful multidisciplinary approach that supports the use of specialty medications.
There’s no doubt that complexity is the operational word for reimbursement, and this includes the rules and nuances that govern drugs and biologicals. Even though some healthcare practitioners’ sites may contract with an outside provider of billing services, it’s incumbent on the providers and their office staffs to know the background information on the requirements of what’s reimbursable.
A look at how an epidemiologist conducts an investigation into a measles outbreak shows just how complicated containing an outbreak can be.
New legislation, increased education, and high-tech tracking aim to curb the proliferation of compromised and counterfeit products in the pipeline.
Complexity is the operational word for reimbursement, and this includes the rules and nuances that govern drugs and biologicals. Here is a summary of important 2014 issues.
Allowing pharmacists to become more involved in patient care will reap benefits for patients and save healthcare dollars.
Hospital-acquired infections remain a deadly threat, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in partnership with other healthcare agencies and professionals are working to lower the rates of HAIs with some degree of success.
Counterfeits pose a threat for healthcare professionals worldwide. And, while technological advancements are being made to protect the drug supply, international regulation and politics stand in the way of fixing the problem in the foreseeable future.
The federal government, physicians and consumers all have active roles to play in reducing medication errors that so often result in adverse drug events and a high cost burden.
Despite evidence that vaccinating healthcare workers against influenza helps to protect patients, many still refuse — even during the worst flu season in nearly a decade.
