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An ER doctor's final frontier: Tricorders could be coming to a sick bay near you | Salon

Years ago, emergency room physician Dr. Basil Harris realized that a lot of the patients he was treating weren't coming in with the kinds of severe trauma that ERs were designed for, such as car accident injuries or other immediate life-threatening conditions.

Some practices still don't run analytics on EHR data | HealthcareIT News

A new survey from MGMA has found that medical practices have mixed approaches to analyzing their electronic health record data.

Pharmaceuticals

In small Alzheimer's study, hints of modest benefit from unusual drug | STAT

A little-known drug company announced modestly encouraging results for its experimental Alzheimer's drug on Monday, a rare but still preliminary glimmer of hope in a field that has been battered by failure after failure.

Most Americans still want Washington to do something about drug costs | STAT

A majority of Americans continue to believe that lowering prescription drug costs should be a top priority for the Trump administration and Congress, and most overwhelmingly favor taking several steps — such as allowing Medicare to negotiate or importing medicines from Canada — as a potential solution.