Weekly Roundup: Health care news and notes
August 28, 2015 · NCQA
Every Friday NCQA gives a rundown of some of the health care news stories from the past week. Here are some of our picks for this week:
- New federal regulations mean hospitals must count vaccination rates for anyone who works in a health care facility between October 1 and March 31. [Health Leaders]
- Large employers look to tighten control of costs for expensive drugs. [Kaiser Health News]
- IBM crafts a role for artificial intelligence in medicine. [Wall Street Journal]
- Cancer and cardiovascular death rates dropped but rates rose sharply for Alzheimer’s. [Surgical Neurology International]
- If you build the health app, will the Medicaid recipients come? [Modern Healthcare]
- Osteoporosis affects 24.8 percent of women and 5.6 percent of men a 65 and older, with higher rates for Mexican-Americans. [Centers for Disease Control]
- More than 1 in 10 American adults experience chronic pain. [Washington Post]
- Integrated medical-behavioral care increases odds of good pediatric outcomes by 66 percent. [JAMA]
- Preventable pediatric asthma and diabetes hospital stays rose 21 percent from 2008-2012. [Health Affairs]
- Some state vaccination laws contribute to greater exemption rates and disease outbreaks in us. [Health Affairs]
- Diabetes drug costs are up by as much as 325 percent over the last 5 years. [The Alliance of Community Health Plans]
- Modern Healthcare’s 100 most influential people in health care for 2015. [Modern Healthcare]
- The uninsured rate dropped one third, or 15.8 million since Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces took effect and is now just 9.2 percent. [New York Times]
- Medicare says doctors should get paid to discuss end-of-life issues. [Kaiser Health News]
- Paramedics on house calls: Chronic disease care to prevent hospitalizations. [Wall Street Journal]
