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Which COVID-19 vaccine works better?
In the first head-to-head comparison of the effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, researchers examined the electronic health records of veterans who had received each vaccine. Both vaccines were highly effective in preventing COVID-19 outcomes such as documented infection, hospitalization, and death. (Source: World Pharma News)
Source: World Pharma News - December 2, 2021 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Featured Research Research and Development Source Type: news

CareAlign raises $2.3M from investors with ties to Harvard, Princeton
University of Pennsylvania spinout CareAlign raised $2.3 million in a seed extension round. CareAlign is a HIPAA compliant collaborative task management platform integrated into the electronic health record, or EHR, for clinicians and their teams. Its features include shared task lists, care plans, patient documentation and notes. The platform can upload information into the EHR that can later be printed for a paper chart. CareAlign was founded in 2014 by Dr. Subha Airan-Javia, a former associate… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines - November 30, 2021 Category: Health Management Authors: Kennedy Rose Source Type: news

Reaching Gen-Z
Despite creditable ongoing efforts by pharma to represent the broadest and most diverse population of patients in research and care, younger patients still often don ’t get represented and consulted as they might. Only by building a closer understanding of them will pharma be able to serve them better. And it can only do this by first finding and listening to them. There ’s an obvious, if still under explored avenue here. “If you think about where younger people are, they ' re on social media, ” says Seth Rotberg, who co-founded Our Odyssey, a nonprofit organization dedicated to connecting young adults impacted ...
Source: EyeForPharma - November 24, 2021 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Risa Kerslake Source Type: news

Gambling disorder in an italian population: risk of suicide attempts and associated demographic-clinical factors using electronic health records - Pavarin RM, Fabbri C, Fioritti A, Marani S, De Ronchi D.
To identify the demographic and clinical characteristics associated with access to Emergency Departments for Suicide Attempt in a cohort of patients with Gambling disorders. We used electronic health records of inpatient and outpatient services to identify... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - November 22, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news

An Apache Tribe ’s Innovative COVID-19 Contact Tracing Model Saved Lives. It Could Work Elsewhere Too.
After performing funeral rites for 40 of his neighbors, Gary Lupe tested positive for COVID-19 in October. Lupe, a 56-year-old minister on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation in Whiteriver, Ariz., had spent the previous months in quiet expectation despite being vaccinated in January. On Oct. 10, as he was experiencing flu-like symptoms, a nurse at the nearby Indian Health Services (IHS) ordered Lupe to its emergency room, as his wife Berlita and their six kids immediately began quarantining. Lupe received Regeneron’s monoclonal antibody treatment without hesitation: IHS, he says, was to be trusted. “They were (a...
Source: TIME: Health - November 12, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mark Oprea Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

Conducting Sepsis Surveillance by Applying Sepsis-3 Criteria to Electronic Health Record Data: Promises and Potential Pitfalls
A subsequent study sponsored by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) adapted the Sepsis-3 approach to facilitate consistent surveillance across diverse EHR systems in order to generate updated national estimates of sepsis incidence, mortality, and trends. ICU mortality was highest for ICU-acquired sepsis (24%) followed by hospital-acquired sepsis (19%) and community-acquired sepsis (13%). These factors have collectively led to underestimation of the burden of sepsis, overestimation of changes in sepsis incidence and outcomes, and difficulty in comparing sepsis outcomes across hospitals, regions, and co...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - November 10, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Identifying High-Risk Subphenotypes and Associated Harms From Delayed Antibiotic Orders and Delivery
Conclusions: Delays in antibiotic ordering and drug delivery are both associated with a similar increase in mortality. A distinct subgroup of high-risk patients exist who could be targeted for more timely therapy. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - November 10, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Exploiting Real-World Data to Optimize the Use of Antibiotics
This new impact story describes CDER-led research to use real-world data (from electronic health records) to advance the safe use of antibiotics and reduce rates of antibiotic resistance in bacterial pathogens. (Source: FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research - What's New)
Source: FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research - What's New - November 9, 2021 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: FDA Source Type: news

Mandrola Previews the Virtual AHA 2021 Mandrola Previews the Virtual AHA 2021
Trials on aortic stenosis, atrial fibrillation, and a pragmatic use of EHRs are among the picks from this year ' s American Heart Association scientific sessions.theheart.org on Medscape (Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines - November 9, 2021 Category: Cardiology Tags: Cardiology Expert Column Source Type: news

Changing Cancer Care, So Patients No Longer Feel Like a Number
“Having cancer is terrifying. It’s scary. And going to the hospital—I really felt like a number,” says Marc Hulett, who was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2004. Hulett had surgery to remove his prostate and has been on hormone therapy for 17 years. Every three months, he gets a blood test to monitor his progress, but he no longer feels like a number. He drives from his home in Palm Springs, Calif., to Los Angeles—which can take up to six hours—to see his oncologist, Dr. David Agus, at the Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine. As the name suggests, the Institute isn’t ju...
Source: TIME: Health - November 3, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized Cancer healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

Addressing gender identity biases in electronic health record systems
A team of transgender researchers, led by YSM postdoctoral researcher Clair Kronk, are working to better represent patients ’ gender identities in EHR systems. (Source: Yale Science and Health News)
Source: Yale Science and Health News - October 15, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Development and internal validation of a risk prediction model for falls among older people using primary care electronic health records - Dormosh N, Schut MC, Heymans MW, van der Velde N, Abu-Hanna A.
BACKGROUND: Currently used prediction tools have limited ability to identify community-dwelling older people at high risk for falls. Prediction models utilizing Electronic Heath Records (EHR) provide opportunities but up to now showed limited clinical valu... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 15, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news

Using electronic health records to predict physician departure
Hoping to reduce costly and disruptive physician turnovers, a new Yale study examines electronic health record use to identify providers at risk of leaving. (Source: Yale Science and Health News)
Source: Yale Science and Health News - October 12, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

New Data Shed Light on COVID-19's Debilitating Second Act New Data Shed Light on COVID-19's Debilitating Second Act
A large review of electronic health records by Boston-based researchers has revealed 33 phenotypes that are indicative of long COVID-19 among people who contracted the virus but did not need hospital care.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - October 6, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news

What Happens When the World ’s Most Popular COVID-19 Dashboard Can’t Get Data?
One Monday in late February 2020, Lauren Gardner was working frantically. The website she’d been managing around the clock for the last month—which tracked cases of an emerging respiratory disease called COVID-19, and presented the spread in maps and charts—was, all of a sudden, getting inundated with visitors and kept crashing. As Gardner, an associate professor of engineering at Johns Hopkins University (JHU), struggled to get the site online again, an official in the Trump Administration falsely claimed on Twitter that JHU had deliberately censored the information. “Seems like bad timing to sto...
Source: TIME: Health - September 29, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Emily Barone Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news