Putting Patients First Blog

APRIL 14, 2025

2 ,3 ,4 By retaining the monthly SEP for this population, CMS can achieve better health outcomes at lower costs by preventing unnecessary emergency care, reducing avoidable hospitalizations, and supporting continuity of preventive care. The proposed change also presents challenges to insurers, potentially undermining market stability.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 27, 2025

Ross et al published a landmark study in 2016 evaluating psilocybin’s impact on anxiety and depression in 51 patients with life-threatening cancer. It triggered an outflow of new psychedelic research interest and added evidence to the relationship between mystical experience and the efficacy of psilocybin.

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Pharmacy Times

JULY 8, 2025

SHOW MORE The study found biosimilar initiation rose to nearly 42% from 2016 to 2023. 1 For this retrospective cohort study, the investigators collected data from January 1, 2016, to December 31, 2023, to assess the uptake of biosimilars within the pediatric IBD space. One patient started Inflectra in 2016 and 2017.

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RX Note

DECEMBER 25, 2024

External Links Similar, But Different: Veterinary and Human Drugs, 2018 The Furry Family: Veterinary Pharmacy in Community Practice, 2020 Why I chose veterinary pharmacy instead of community or hospital, 2021

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Pharmacy Times

JULY 1, 2025

031), and diagnosis between 2016 and 2018 (OR 1.93, P < 001) as well as 2019 and 2020 (1.88, P < 001). in 2016, representing a period of rapid uptake—and usage was consistently high from 2016 to 2018. 3 The utilization of HER2 therapies increased from 64.6% in 2013 to 80.9%

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 25, 2025

1 Scientific evidence between January 1, 2016, and January 31, 2023, was included in the study. This was assessed by analyzing real-world pharmacoepidemiological data and conducting a systematic review and meta-analysis to further quantify this risk.

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Pharmacy Joe

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Episode 969: How a pharmacist can ensure the best possible outcomes for status epilepticus Subscribe on iTunes , Android , or Stitcher Whenever I encounter a hospital inpatient with an acute seizure, I make sure that I have IV lorazepam available. Most seizures stop after about 2 minutes.

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Pharmaceutical Commerce

JUNE 18, 2025

This features patients, hospitals, laboratories, and outpatient surgery centers—with sterile barrier packaging that is able to safeguard medical technologies—in an effort to promote uninterrupted supply chains and faster delivery windows.

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Putting Patients First Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Market Basket and Payment Rate Updates Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System Operating and Capital Payment Rate Updates The NHC is concerned about whether CMS’ proposed 2.4 percent update to the operating payment rates for general acute care hospitals—reflecting a 3.2 percent market basket increase offset by a 0.8 percent to 0.3

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pharmaphorum

JUNE 30, 2025

Skip to main content Monday 30 June 2025 BlueSky linkedin youtube rss User account menu Subscribe Channels Channels Digital Market Access Oncology Patients R&D Sales & Marketing Spotlight on Content type Content type Digital -News -Views & Analysis -Deep Dive -Webinars -Podcasts -Video -White Papers -Event Market Access -News -Views & (..)

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JULY 18, 2025

At BIO, David Ridley, a health economist at Duke University, said based on the reauthorisation experience in 2016, the program is likely to be renewed, but in the meantime, “this is slowing down drug development by a couple of years for many of these drugs.” “I Give your business an edge with our leading industry insights.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JULY 7, 2025

J&J gained prostate cancer rights for Zejula from Tesaro in 2016, the latter company was acquired by GSK. Akeega combines the active ingredients in GSK’s PARP inhibitor Zejula (niraparib) and J&J’s androgen blocker Zytiga (abiraterone). Give your business an edge with our leading industry insights.

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JULY 22, 2025

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Beckers Hospital Review

JULY 11, 2025

Community hospitals play a vital role in closing healthcare access gaps, and the CEOs who lead them are committed to providing high-quality, cost-effective care tailored to the needs of their local communities. In addition to his role as president of the community hospitals, he also serves as senior vice president at Atlantic Health System.

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Beckers Hospital Review

JULY 18, 2025

Becker’s is proud to spotlight outstanding chief experience officers who are making a meaningful impact on the patient experience at hospitals and health systems nationwide. Vice President and Chief Experience Officer of Dayton (Ohio) Children’s Hospital. He also formerly worked as chief of staff for the Miami-Dade County commissioner.

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Beckers Hospital Review

JULY 16, 2025

Becker’s has recently reported on the following hospital and health system CEO moves, including appointments and exits. Becker’s has recently reported on the following hospital and health system CEO moves, including appointments and exits. and was named COO of HCA Healthcare’s Doctors Hospital of Augusta (Ga.).

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STAT

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Montana is signaling it might step away from an innovative way of setting the prices its public employee health plan pays hospitals for services, an approach that has saved the state millions of dollars and become a model for health plans nationwide.

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STAT

APRIL 19, 2024

regulators approved several new antibiotics for combating hard-to-treat bacteria during a recent five-year period, hospital doctors instead gave older, generic remedies to more than 40% of patients battling those stubborn pathogens, according to a new analysis. They examined data spanning January 2016 through June 2021 at 619 U.S.

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STAT

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The data mark a steady rise in sales under the 340B Drug Discount Program, which requires drugmakers to offer discounts that are typically estimated to be 25% to 50% — but could be higher — off all outpatient drugs to hospitals and clinics that primarily serve lower-income patients. billion in 2016.

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STAT

DECEMBER 14, 2022

When he was hospitalized in August 2016, hospital staff used a needle to drain 7 liters of fluid from his abdomen. The final years of Carl Hoffer’s life were, in his words, “living hell.” ” His legs were so swollen they’d crack and leak white fluid. Read the rest…

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

I first met Wes Ely in 2016, when I wrote about ICU delirium and Ely’s attempts, as a critical-care physician at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, to urge fellow health care workers to rethink the use of heavy sedation in ICUs. Well, a lot’s happened since 2016.

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STAT

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The latest data mark a steady rise in sales under the 340B Drug Discount Program, which requires drugmakers to offer discounts that are typically estimated to be 25% to 50% — but could be higher — of all outpatient drugs used by hospitals and clinics that primarily serve lower-income patients. In 2016, 340B sales were $16.2

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STAT

OCTOBER 5, 2022

She was rushed to the hospital, where doctors diagnosed the then 29-year-old with a brain tumor. After the brain tumor diagnosis in 2016, Gatton would undergo two brain surgeries, radiation treatment, chemotherapy, followed by an embryo transfer that failed.

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STAT

JANUARY 17, 2024

Geisinger is only the latest member of an elite group of large regional multispecialty medical groups to lose their independence and join large hospital systems or corporations. Virginia Mason in Seattle was fatally damaged by the sad end of its decades-long partnership with Group Health in 2016 and is now part of CommonSpirit.

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The Pharmacist

MAY 30, 2024

since 2016/17, when real-terms funding is adjusted for need, according to new analysis from the Nuffield Trust. increase in real-terms needs-adjusted NHS funding, while funding for acute care in […] The post Pharmacy funding falls amid increases for GP practices and hospitals, says think tank appeared first on The Pharmacist.

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Beckers Hospital Review

JULY 11, 2025

The following hospital and health system executive moves have been shared with or reported by Becker’s since Dec. based Nemours Children’s Hospital. based HCA Florida Fort Walton-Destin Hospital. Community Hospital. Joseph Hospital in Denver. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.

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ALiEM - Pharm Pearls

MARCH 29, 2023

The goal remains to identify infants with bacterial infections in this at-risk cohort of patients while also considering the balance of cost-effectiveness on a population scale and the potential for iatrogenic harm with evaluation such as unnecessary lumbar punctures, unnecessary antibiotics, and unnecessary hospitalization. No LP needed.

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STAT

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

One medical device lawyer wrote that the document “violates” the 21st Century Cures Act passed by Congress in 2016 to exempt certain software products from regulatory review. But they are sharply divided on whether that’s a much-needed change, or a dramatic overreach by regulators.

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ID Stewardship

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Approximately 5-15% of patients requiring mechanical ventilation will develop VAP during their hospitalization. Based on large surveillance data, most regions in the United States have MRSA rates above 30%, therefore, most hospital guidelines in this country likely include an anti-MRSA agent as part of empiric therapy for VAP. .

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RX Note

AUGUST 4, 2023

What can I expect once I entered hospital provisional registered pharmacist training? In most hospitals, you first introduction to your workplace is through an induction period during which you are shown many different areas and meet many new people. Is it very different from I learnt in university and real practice?

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pharmaphorum

AUGUST 9, 2021

Telstra Health – the Australian group’s digital health arm – is paying A$350 million ($257 million) to buy MedicalDirector from investment company Affinity Equity Partners, which bought the company from former owner Healius for A$155 million in 2016.

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ALiEM - Pharm Pearls

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

A 4-year-old male with no significant past medical history presents as a transfer from an outside hospital for suspected inhalation burn secondary to a house fire. He was intubated at the outside hospital due to concern for inhalation injury. Laboratory Data CBC: WNL ABG at outside hospital: pH 7.0, Epub 2016 Jun 23.

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ALiEM - Pharm Pearls

JANUARY 8, 2024

Her hospital course was complicated by tachyarrhythmias requiring cardioversion, and Takostubo physiology. 2016 May;68(5):689-94. This patient was admitted requiring 40 L HFNC, then two days later required intubation for severe ARDS and was placed on VV-ECMO the same day. References Huang K, Levy RD, Avina-Zubieta JA. doi: 10.1002/acr.22728.

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ALiEM - Pharm Pearls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

2016 Dec 28;7(Suppl 44):S1150-S1153. Author information Benjamin Deschner, MD Resident Physician Emergency Medicine HCA Kendall Florida Hospital | The post SAEM Clinical Images Series: An Unusual Foreign Body appeared first on ALiEM. Bales J, Morton RP, Airhart N, Flum D, Avellino AM. Surg Neurol Int. doi: 10.4103/2152-7806.196930.

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PharmD Live

MAY 30, 2024

Every day, 750 seniors (age 65 and older) in the United States are hospitalized due to serious side effects from one or more medications.(Shehab JAMA 2016; 316(20): 2115-25.) Together, these challenges not only aggravate existing health conditions but also increase the likelihood of expensive hospitalizations and readmissions.

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European Pharmaceutical Review

JANUARY 19, 2023

Professor Graham Jackson, Consultant Haematologist at Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust commented: “This treatment has become an important standard of care in relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma over the past five years, so I am delighted with this final decision from NICE.”

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Pharmacy Joe

OCTOBER 20, 2024

The database used in the analysis draws from over 600 US hospitals. Patient data from the beginning of 2016 to the end of 2019 was analyzed, resulting in a study population of over 190,000 patients with sepsis and septic shock admitted from the emergency department to the ICU. The authors observed a 2.5%

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