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- Patient Portals as a Tool for Health Care Engagement: A Mixed-Method Study of Older Adults With Varying Levels of Health Literacy and Prior Patient Portal Use – PMC
- To Combat Physician Burnout and Improve Care, Fix the Electronic Health Record – Harvard Business Review
- CDC Grand Rounds: Improving Medication Adherence for chronic disease management – innovations and opportunities.
- Life Expectancy drops again as opioid deaths surge in the U.S. – NPR, Public Health
- Medicare Advisory Panel wants to Scrap MIPS – FierceHealthcare
- The Cost of Not Taking your Medicine – NY Times, Well
- Opioid Crisis Impacts ICUs with more Admissions, Deaths – American Thoracic Society
- Doctors look to Price for Tweaks in Medicare Rule – The Hill
- H.R.3528 – Every Prescription Conveyed Securely Act – Congress.Gov
- An Antidote for the Opioid Epidemic – The Hill
- Study: Non-physicians deliver same care as docs in community health centers – FierceHealthcare
- Unintended consequences of EHR regs hinder interoperability – Health Data Management
- Tom Price weighs pros, cons of electronic health records at Senate HELP Committee hearing – FierceHealthcare
- Malloy Unveils Plans to Further Combat Opioid Crisis – CT News Junkie
- The Complexities of Physician Supply and Demand: Projections from 2014 to 2025 – IHS
- QuintilesIMS drug spending outlook: $1.5 trillion in 2021, up 33% – Pharmaceutical Commerce
- Why Patient Engagement Will Rise in Importance – Health Data Management
- Patient-Doctor Partnerships: A Recipe for Better Medical Care – U.S. News
- Practices Need to “Sell” Patients on Patient Portal Benefits – Fierce Healthcare
- CMS Offers Docs More Help to Implement MACRA – Fierce Healthcare
- Mobile Tech a MUST HAVE for docs – Fierce Healthcare
- New Law Tightens Regulations for Pain Clinics – Tennessee Medical Association
- Online Portals Top List of Patient Engagement Tools
- FDA to Review the Marketing of Off-Label Use of Medications to Doctors
- Health System Finds Technology Can Boost Patient Engagement – AAFP
- QD 2016 Prescription Drug Monitoring Report – Quest Diagnostic Health Trends
- Changes in Prescription and Over-the-Counter Medication and Dietary Supplement Use Among Older Adults in the United States, 2005 vs 2011 – JAMA Network
- Maine to Require Providers Use E-Prescribing and Check Prescription Monitoring Data for Opioids, Benzodiazepine; Law Includes New Limits for Opioid Prescribing25 Things to Know About ePrescribing – www.nabp.net
- How I Learned to Start E-Prescribing In Pursuit of the Fabulous Fob – June 14th 2016 – by Roy Harvey Greenberg
- Federal Officials, Advocates Push Pill-TrackingDatabases
- NYS Department of Health releases ePrescribing Waiver Rules and Regulations – March 16, 2016
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