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The Infomercial Comes to The Wall Street Journal

Sensible Medicine

For calcium deposits in breast arteries to be important, we would need to know that some action based on this finding, whether it be further diagnostic testing, lifestyle modification, or medical therapy, actually benefits a woman. One of them, the coronary artery calcium score (CAC) was reviewed in 2018 by the U.S.

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Supplementing Your EHR To Improve Patient Care and Experience

Electronic Health Reporter

By Tom Romeo, general manager of healthcare IT, Quanum Solutions, Quest Diagnostics. Despite widespread adoption, a 2018 Quest Diagnostics survey was among the first to cast doubt on overall usefulness of “basic” EHRs. Illegal copying is prohibited. Only 39% of physicians surveyed believed […].

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Personalized Medicine: Consumer Concerns About Coverage, Affordability and Privacy

Health Populi

.” When the concept of therapies tailored to individual patients is explained, most people like the idea of diagnostic tools that can identify biological markers and marry to personal medical records data to help determine medical treatments that best fit them. This picture of U.S.

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When Trials Find Implausible Results—The SCOT-HEART trial

Sensible Medicine

An imaging test. One group of patients with chest pain received standard stress testing; the other received standard stress testing plus a coronary CT scan (CCTA). The Edinburgh-based team presented their 5-year results in 2018, and their 10-year results last week. Not a drug. Not an intervention. Both were positive.

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HIPAA Violation Cases

The HIPAA Journal

territory of Guam, was investigated after a complaint was received about a December 2018 ransomware attack. The data was exposed online between August 2015 and July 2018. The first breach involved unauthorized access to the ePHI of 197,986 individuals betweenSeptember 25, 2018, and November 30, 2018. Warby Parker, Inc.,

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In Defense of the Coronary Artery Calcium Scan in Primary Prevention of Atherosclerotic Heart Disease

Sensible Medicine

JMM Although the skeptical cardiologist questions the value of many procedures and diagnostic tests in cardiology, he remains an enthusiastic advocate of the use of coronary artery calcium (CAC) testing to better personalize each individual's risk of heart attack and stroke.

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Prescriptions Are Up, Health Services Utilization Down, and GLP-1s Are a Major Growth Driver: IQVIA’s 2024 Update

Health Populi

In the past year, the growth of prescription drug utilization and spending has much to do with the use of GLP-1 agonists to treat diabetes and obesity, along with immunology therapy, and lipid meds, along with specialty medicines now accounting for over half of spending — up from 49% in 2018.