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American College of Critical Care Medicine honors Ely

ridingkm — Thu, 12 May 2022 17:38:32 +0000

American College of Critical Care Medicine honors Ely ridingkm Thu, 05/12/2022 - 12:38 RSS:

Wes Ely, MD, MPH was honored by the American College of Critical Care Medicine with the 2022 Distinguished Investigator Award. This award recognizes an established and active Society of Critical Care Medicine clinical investigator for meritorious and pioneering clinical research in critical care who has significantly contributed to understanding the disease or treatment of patients.

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Ely, Wesley, Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction and Survivorship Center

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Major grant renewal to provide five more years of support for VICTR

ridingkm — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 17:48:12 +0000

Major grant renewal to provide five more years of support for VICTR ridingkm Wed, 04/06/2022 - 12:48 RSS:

https://news.vumc.org/2022/04/06/major-grant-renewal-to-provide-five-more-years-of-support-for-victr/

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Wilkins, Consuelo, Bernard, Gordon, VICTR

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Medicare beneficiaries without low-income subsidies were less likely to fill important prescriptions, new study finds

ridingkm — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 17:59:26 +0000

Medicare beneficiaries without low-income subsidies were less likely to fill important prescriptions, new study finds ridingkm Mon, 04/04/2022 - 12:59 RSS:

https://news.vumc.org/2022/04/04/medicare-beneficiaries-without-low-income-subsidies-were-less-likely-to-fill-important-prescriptions-new-study-finds/

Many Medicare beneficiaries do not fill high-price specialty drug prescriptions, particularly those that do not receive a low-income subsidy. Stacie Dusetzina, PhD, Russell Rothman, MD, MPP, and colleagues found that beneficiaries receiving subsidies were twice as likely to obtain the prescribed drug than those not receiving subsidies, demonstrating the need to increase the accessibility of high-price medications by reducing out-of-pocket expenses under Medicare Part D.

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Dusetzina, Stacie, Rothman, Russell, Health Policy

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Barkin departing to become chair of pediatrics at Virginia Commonwealth University

ridingkm — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 17:41:51 +0000

Barkin departing to become chair of pediatrics at Virginia Commonwealth University ridingkm Thu, 03/31/2022 - 12:41 RSS:

https://news.vumc.org/2022/03/31/barkin-departing-to-become-chair-of-pediatrics-at-virginia-commonwealth-university/

Shari Barkin, MD, MSHS will depart VUMC to become chair of the Department of Pediatrics and physician-in-chief at Children’s Hospital of Richmond at Virginia Commonwealth University. Thank you, Dr. Barkin, for your many years of service and leadership at VUMC. We wish you all the best in your new role! Read More

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Barkin, Shari

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VUMC Clickbusters program helps reduce EHR alerts

ridingkm — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 17:56:16 +0000

VUMC Clickbusters program helps reduce EHR alerts ridingkm Thu, 03/24/2022 - 12:56 RSS:

https://news.vumc.org/2022/03/24/vumc-clickbusters-program-helps-reduce-ehr-alerts/

Allison McCoy, PhD and Adam Wright, PhD led a “Clickbusters” initiative to optimize best practice advisories (BPA) in eSTAR and help stem alert fatigue. A comprehensive review of 20% of the rule-based alerts in use at VUMC led to a 15% reduction in interruptive alerts. Sarah Horst, MD, MPH was a co-author on the study. Read More

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McCoy, Allison, Wright, Adam, Horst, Sarah, Vanderbilt Clinical Informatics Center, Electronic Health Record EHR

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VUMC’s DeBaun elected president-elect of the American Pediatric Society

ridingkm — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 17:43:32 +0000

VUMC’s DeBaun elected president-elect of the American Pediatric Society ridingkm Thu, 03/24/2022 - 12:43 RSS:

Michael DeBaun, MD, MS, MPH has been elected president-elect of the American Pediatric Society (APS). The mission of the APS is to shape the future of academic pediatrics through the engagement of distinguished child health leaders to represent the full diversity within the field. Read More

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https://news.vumc.org/2022/03/24/vumcs-debaun-elected-president-elect-of-the-american-pediatric-society/

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U.S. precision medicine research program releases genomic data

ridingkm — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 17:54:16 +0000

U.S. precision medicine research program releases genomic data ridingkm Thu, 03/17/2022 - 12:54 RSS:

https://news.vumc.org/2022/03/17/u-s-precision-medicine-research-program-releases-genomic-data/

Paul Harris, PhD, and colleagues with the All of Us Research Program announced that their cloud-based platform includes genetic data for over 165,000 participants, along with the survey, EHR, physical measurement and activity, and Census data. This repository is poised to be a major resource for biomedical research in this country.

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Harris, Paul

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Study shows little variance in overdose deaths when sorting by Medicaid expansion status

ridingkm — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 18:50:54 +0000

Study shows little variance in overdose deaths when sorting by Medicaid expansion status ridingkm Thu, 03/03/2022 - 12:50 RSS:

https://news.vumc.org/2022/03/03/study-shows-little-variance-in-overdose-deaths-when-sorting-by-medicaid-expansion-status/

Kevin Griffith, PhD examined how the pandemic impacted access to substance use disorder treatment services, which are improved with Medicaid services. Medicaid expansion and non-expansion states experienced similar increases in drug and opioid overdose deaths during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Griffith, Kevin, Health Policy

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