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The drumbeat of opioid overdose deaths goes on, none more tragic than the passing last July of a 9-month-old who accidentally swallowed a fentanyl-laced pill purchased by her 17-year-old mother and 43-year-old grandmother. When police investigated their suburban home, they found more than 100 empty capsules, including some in the baby’s diaper […]

In March, retail pharmacy giant Walgreen Co. started hiring pharmacists specifically tasked with addressing medication non-adherence. The new role, described as a health outcomes pharmacist, entails having the pharmacists call customers with diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol who have been historically non-adherent to their drugs, find out why and get […]

The Trump administration made a full-court press to bring down healthcare spending in 2019 through increased price transparency and other cost-cutting measures, even when it meant flouting the courts. In year two of Alex Azar’s reign as HHS secretary, the department doubled down on its efforts to bring the power […]

Dec. 17: President Donald Trump last year signed the Support for Patients and Community Act into law, which aimed to give HHS and states more tools to combat the opioid crisis. The Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing titled, “Tackling the Opioid Crisis: A Whole-of-Government Approach.” Opioids killed more than […]

As 2019 winds down and the holiday season descends, Outliers has been checking its list, pondering who’s been naughty and who’s been nice during a hectic year for healthcare news. The Sackler family and the company it owns, OxyContin marketer Purdue Pharma, faced a wave of lawsuits over their role […]

After several years of rapid consolidation, healthcare mergers and acquisitions lulled in 2019, with several major deals falling apart in the early stages of talks. In the Midwest, Sanford Health nixed its deal to form an $11 billion system with UnityPoint Health. Partners HealthCare ditched its plan to acquire Rhode […]

When MetroHealth in 2017 launched a $946 million campus transformation project in Cleveland, the second-poorest large city in the nation, construction firm owner Adrian Maldonado saw a big opportunity. He and other Hispanic contractors arranged a meeting with MetroHealth CEO Dr. Akram Boutros, who proposed setting aside 5% of the work […]

In 2019, few phrases were uttered more often by healthcare industry stakeholders than ‘“social determinants of health.” From affordable housing initiatives to funding economic revitalization of impoverished communities, the year saw industry leaders make some of their biggest investments yet toward addressing socioeconomic factors tied to improving patient outcomes. Interest […]

Dr. Akram Boutros, CEO of MetroHealth in Cleveland, was speaking to a group of 11th graders on a hospital field trip several years ago when one student asked how he got his job. He asked them to guess. “Luck?” one student ventured. “The concept of a career was foreign to […]

If anyone has ever met another person who has been affected by a painful and debilitating knee problem they will soon realise how critical knee health is to one’s ability to live a happy and fulfilling life. What are five of the top tips from an expert on how to […]