STAT

AUGUST 14, 2023

CommonSpirit Health, the massive not-for-profit health system formed through a 2019 merger, paid its former CEO $35.5 million in 2021, the latest year for which data is available.    The size of Lloyd Dean’s pay package is likely to reignite questions about health system CEO pay, especially at tax-exempt organizations.

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STAT

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The study was a page-turner: Researchers at Google showed that an artificial intelligence system could predict acute kidney injury, a common killer of hospitalized patients, up to 48 hours in advance. Read the rest…

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Department of Veterans Affairs Hospitals 246

STAT

OCTOBER 5, 2022

She was rushed to the hospital, where doctors diagnosed the then 29-year-old with a brain tumor. But after all that, another embryo transfer had worked, and in fall 2019, Gatton was expecting. Gatton and her husband had struggled to conceive naturally for years and completed six unsuccessful intrauterine inseminations.

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Chemotherapy Hospitals 265

Pharma Times

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Heart failure accounted for approximately 90,000 hospital admissions in England in 2019 to 2020

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Hospitals 154

STAT

OCTOBER 10, 2024

  Narayan, a professor of computer science at Princeton University, went viral in 2019 for a talk he gave at MIT on how to recognize overblown declarations about AI’s capabilities. Now he’s teamed up with his Ph.D. student Kapoor to publish the book “ AI Snake Oil ,” which came out Sep.

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Drug Development Hospitals 351

European Pharmaceutical Review

MAY 19, 2023

A Phase III trial has found that the novel combination antibiotic sulbactam-durlobactam prevents at least as many fatalities of hospital-acquired pneumonia as colistin, the best currently approved treatment. However, with these positive trial results, there is potential for the FDA to approve the new antibiotic.

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Hospitals Medical Schools 105

Pharma Times

MARCH 13, 2023

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals have been using two Mostcare Up devices since 2019

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Hospitals 138

Drug Channels

JUNE 3, 2020

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) recently released its employment data for 2019. Total pharmacist employment grew in 2019. Consistent with our previous analyses, the share of pharmacists who work at hospitals reached a new high. However, the number of pharmacists working in retail settings decreased.

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Hospitals 52

STAT

JANUARY 9, 2023

The researchers used clinician-level and practice acquisition data to study changes in the makeup of clinician workforces at private equity-acquired versus non-private equity-acquired dermatology, ophthalmology, and gastroenterology practices between 2014 and 2019.

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Hospitals 256

The Guardian - Pharmaceutical Industry

APRIL 20, 2024

An analysis of disclosures by medical device companies found that between 2017 and 2019 they reported €425m (£367m at today’s rates) in payments to healthcare organisations in Europe, according to the study in the journal Health Policy and Technology.

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Hospitals 106

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. 2019 Mar; 2(3).

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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.

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Hospitals Inpatient Community Pharmacies Dosage 52

ALiEM - Pharm Pearls

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Give 600 mg IM every 5 min prehospital or 1-2 g loading dose IV in hospital with optional repeat bolus after 1 hour or continuous infusion. 2019 Aug;9(4):337-342. 2019 Oct;123(4):457-463. Epub 2019 Jun 24. Pralidoxime must be given minutes to hours after nerve agent exposure because the AChE-nerve agent complex “ages”.

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Hospitals 195

NY Times

JANUARY 21, 2022

The treatment must be given via intravenous infusion over three consecutive days, generally at a hospital or clinic.

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Hospitals 61

pharmaphorum

JUNE 15, 2021

Every patient, every doctor or nurse, every hospital worker is a human being influenced by their experiences outside of healthcare. For example, in 2019, 76% of US consumers searched online to learn about their health and care, and nearly half digitally tracked a health metric, such as weight or blood sugar levels. 19 pandemic.

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Hospitals Mayo Clinic Communication 52

NY Times

JULY 6, 2022

A new study found that sabizabulin reduced the risk of death by 55 percent, but some experts were cautious about overinterpreting the results.

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Hospitals 98

NY Times

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Scientists say the results of the latest research examining the inflammation-fighting qualities of fluvoxamine, capping similar smaller studies, could lead to new treatment guidelines.

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Hospitals 98

NY Times

AUGUST 3, 2021

The Food and Drug Administration’s move is expected to kick off more vaccination mandates for hospital workers, college students and federal troops.

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Vaccines Hospitals Immunity Immunization 145

ALiEM - Pharm Pearls

JUNE 15, 2023

Goldfrank’s Toxicologic Emergencies, 11e New York, NY: McGraw-Hill; 2019 Morimoto M, Tatsumi K, Yuui K, et al. Nelson LS, Goldfrank LR. In: Nelson LS, Howland M, Lewin NA, Smith SW, Goldfrank LR, Hoffman RS. Lancet 2003; 361 (9373): 1935-8.

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Hospitals 246

NY Times

MARCH 30, 2022

“At some point it will become a waste of resources to continue studying an unpromising approach,” one expert said.

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Hospitals 98

pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The winners will get mentorship from experts at AWS as well as KidsX, a digital health accelerator owned by Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, and also get $25,000 in credit for free usage of AWS, said Amazon in a blog post. The finalists are: AIVA , a startup that has developed a voice operating system for patient care.

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Hospitals 138

Express Pharma

MARCH 21, 2024

Jain’s journey with CII commenced in 2019 as an elected member. Jain will oversee policy advocacy with the government across various sectors including solar, wellness, hospitality, pharmaceuticals, and others. He was chosen as the Vice President in 2023.

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Hospitals 105

pharmaphorum

AUGUST 9, 2021

Telstra Health managing director Mary Foley said that the acquisition adds to the company’s current range of digital health tools used by hospitals, pharmacies and the aged care sector. Just last month, it took a stake in PowerHealth, which provides billing, budgeting, costing and revenue software for hospitals.

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Hospitals 105

NY Times

JANUARY 25, 2021

Initial studies show a significant drop in infections and hospitalizations after just one dose, and very few cases after two. Experts caution that the results are preliminary.

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Vaccines Hospitals Immunity Immunization 123

pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The online retail giant first started offering the telemedicine service to some of its own employees in 2019, setting it up in collaboration with Oasis Medical Group, but in March this year announced its intention to offer it to all US employees as well as other companies.

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Hospitals 133

ID Stewardship

MARCH 7, 2025

People at high risk for measles include those who are immunocompromised, infants/children below 5 years of age, people more than 20 years of age, and pregnant women. Some statistics to know includes: 1 in 5 unvaccinated people in the U.S. 7 March 2025. MMR Vaccine VIS WHO: Main Measles page Whats going on with measles? Epidemiology.

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Vaccines Immunity Immunization Communication 119

STAT

JULY 24, 2023

after a long night in the emergency department at Beverly Hospital, where he’d gone for help with severe pain in his shoulder. Chan, a gastroenterologist and chief of the Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital. percent a year from 2017 to 2019; the yearly increase among women was 2.4

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Medical Schools Hospitals Chemotherapy Immunity 246

pharmaphorum

APRIL 26, 2021

In 2019 Cognitant and Addenbrook’s Hospital in Cambridge, UK piloted a programme that aimed to educate patients to improve adherence to rheumatoid arthritis medicines. It comprises more than 170 companies and employs 20,000 people across 20 countries worldwide.

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Hospitals 122

RX Note

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Demystifying Drug Dosing in Renal Dysfunction, 2019 Demystifying Drug Dosing in Renal Dysfunction serves as a quick reference for commonly used medication dosing given varying degrees of renal dysfunction and/or use of renal replacement modalities.

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Drug Channels

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

That figure is an astonishing 27% higher than its 2019 counterpart—and more than quadruple the value of discounted purchases in 2014. Despite what you may have heard, the 340B Drug Pricing Program continues to thrive. Discounted purchases under the program reached at least $38 billion in 2020.

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Drug Pricing Hospitals 45

pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Nearly 40 outpatients living with learning disabilities used the Hear Me Know app in a pilot study at the Royal London Hospital between May 2019 and January 2021, with 30 providing feedback after using it for at least 12 months.

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Health and Personal Care Stores Communication Hospitals 128

European Pharmaceutical Review

JULY 5, 2022

To achieve these goals, Pfizer aims to decrease its GHG emissions by 95 percent and its value chain emissions by 90 percent from 2019 levels by 2040. By doing so, Pfizer commits to reduce GHG emissions and to publicly report on its progress as well as develop climate resiliency plans, among other actions.

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Pharmaceutical Companies Pharmaceutical Companies Hospitals 111

pharmaphorum

JANUARY 5, 2021

The prospect of overwhelming hospital ICU capacity was the primary driver of lockdowns, as governments sought to “flatten the curve” and manage infections. Certain countries were also forced to respond by building new capacity-dedicated facilities for severe COVID-19 patients, like the largely unused “Nightingale” hospitals in the UK.

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pharmaphorum

JUNE 14, 2021

The single biggest monetary difference that can be made to the successor to the UK’s 2019 Voluntary Scheme for branded medicines pricing and access (VPAS) is to address the question of how the allowable growth rate for branded medicines is set. The UK’s 2019 VPAS is a successor to the 2014 Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme (PPRS).

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Hospitals 111

pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 1, 2020

In July, data published by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) suggested that almost 30,000 more care home residents in England and Wales died during the coronavirus outbreak than during the same period in 2019.

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Biosimilars Hospitals Inpatient 90

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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Hospitals Inpatient 91

Drug Channels

JUNE 16, 2021

That figure is an astonishing 27% higher than its 2019 counterpart—and more than quadruple the value of discounted purchases in 2014. Despite what you may have heard, the 340B Drug Pricing Program continues to thrive. Discounted purchases under the program reached at least $38 billion in 2020.

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Drug Pricing Hospitals 40