Pharmaceuticals
Inside a drug pricing contract | Axios
The anatomy of an Express Scripts contract template shows how the contracts tend to favor pharmacy benefits managers.
Safety, quality and clinical practice
Abortion is safe but barriers reduce quality of care | The Associated Press
The risk of death for pregnant women is greater from tonsillectomies and childbirth than from abortion, according to a new report. But providers in some states still force delays and lie to women about the risks.
Information technology
Take this app and call me in the morning | The New York Times
Doctors are more and more often prescribing apps. They might prescribe Reset, for instance, to patients addicted to drugs; the app was the first substance-use disorder treatment app to be approved by the FDA.
EHR data helps predict opioid use | Health Data Management
Researchers tapped data from the Denver Health Medical Center to predict which patients are most at risk of developing addictions to opioids.
In other news
Women in medicine shout #MeToo about sexual harassment at work | The Washington Post
About a third of women working in medical facilities said they'd been sexually harassed in the past two years, according to a recent survey. "We know harassment is more common in fields where there are strong power differentials," said the researcher who ran the survey. "And we know medicine is very hierarchical."
