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During President Donald Trump’s first address to Congress, his call to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act was met with one of the speech's longest and loudest rounds of applause from Republicans.

Expanding a health system pharmacy’s operations to include specialty drugs, namely oral oncology agents, improved patient care by reducing errors and saving costs.

Clinical guidelines suggest that adequate physical activity after an acute coronary syndrome event is a key component of preventing reoccurrence, but a recent study found disappointingly low levels of compliance with these recommendations.

The National Organization for Rare Disorders has announced a new, yearlong campaign to raise public awareness of rare diseases. “Do Your Share for Rare” shines a light on people living with a rare disease and provides an opportunity for them to share their story.

The lack of measurement goes against the trend toward accountability in healthcare. Studies show there are savings to be found in post-acute settings.

The study points to an additional tool that could help prevent at-risk patients from progressing to diabetes.

Overall, the United States is predicted to see a shortage of 193,000 nursing professionals by 2020, according to a 2015 report.

A new grant aims to gather data on thousands of African American cancer survivors to understand factors that influence disease progression, recurrence, mortality, and quality of life.

For some time, studies have shown a link between elevated stress and obesity. Measuring cortisol levels in the hair may be a better way to evaluate chronic stress, since the hormone level will not fluctuate from day to day.

A study of 3 low-cost pill reminder devices found that their use did not meaningfully increase medication adherence among the patients who had received them.

At the 2nd cost-sharing roundtable hosted by the Patient Access Network Foundation and The American Journal of Managed Care®, Tricia Neuman of the Kaiser Family Foundation provided a perspective on what the future might hold for patients enrolled in Medicare.

The bill circulating Friday would allow insurers to charge older Americans 5 times what the youngest group pays; insurers could charge anyone with a lapse in coverage 30% more to re-enter the market.

A recent cost-effectiveness analysis of 4 colorectal cancer screening initiatives found that some strategies may be more valuable than others in reducing screening disparities.

A recent paper in JAMA Internal Medicine examined the accountable care organization programs in Colorado and Oregon to determine their impacts on spending, access, and utilization.

A new Kaiser Health Tracking Poll that asked Americans their opinion on the future of the US healthcare system found the country is deeply divided, but not only on questions of health policy. Americans also have widely varying feelings on which media sources they can trust for healthcare news — if they can trust any at all.

A study of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease worldwide found that higher self-reported symptom burden was associated with more severe impairment of work and activities, as well as increased utilization of healthcare services.

Topics like cybersecurity are always top of mind at health information technology meetings, but other topics, such as artificial intelligence, also grabbed people’s interest at HIMSS 2017.

This week, the top managed care stories included Republicans releasing an outline for replacing the Affordable Care Act, pharmacy benefit managers and pharmaceutical companies pointing fingers over drug costs, and findings on engagement for patients with chronic conditions.

The shift is almost entirely due to a boost of support from independents. Respondents also overwhelmingly support keeping funds for Medicaid expansion.

Patients treated by primary care providers with a high volume of patients experienced worse management of their disease. However, if a physician specifically treated a higher number of diabetics, the quality of the diabetes care received by patients was significantly higher.

Coverage of our peer-reviewed research in the healthcare and mainstream press.

Using body composition metrics to guide the dose in patients receiving anthracyclines-taxane—based chemotherapy for breast cancer can reduce treatment-related toxicity.

The FDA has approved lenalidomide as maintenance therapy in patients with multiple myeloma following autologous stem cell transplant.

The results are important given the concentration of Medicare beneficiaries who are in Medicaid and being treated for multiple chronic conditions.

Amgen and Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare have entered an outcomes-based contract that is based on the efficacy of Amgen’s immunomodulatory agent etanercept (Enbrel), for patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

The study adds to the growing body of evidence linking heart disease and diabetes to dementia.

While many questions on the outlook of healthcare “re-reform” remain afloat, many important insights into President Donald Trump’s potential path forward are now identified.