Offering Specialty Infusions May Be Worth the Work for Oncology Practices

In a move to lower health care costs for Americans, HHS announced earlier this year that it intends to take swift action to implement President Donald Trump’s Most Favored Nation (MFN) prescription drug pricing executive order.

An electronic health record (EHR) alert identifying patients with high-risk metastatic cancer entering the hospital, followed by a targeted set of interventions, resulted in significantly fewer 30-day readmissions and reduced length of stay (LOS) in a real-world study led by Michelle M. Chin, MS, from the University of Central Florida College of Medicine in Orlando, and colleagues. Findings were recently published in JCO Oncology Practice.

Patients need to communicate clearly with their health care provider. But that’s getting more difficult for those in the U.S. who don’t speak English.

For years, it has been one of the most tantalizing ideas in medicine: One day, a simple blood test will detect nascent cancers — allowing doctors to intervene when tumors may be easier to treat.