Editor's Note  According to a May 2022 study from UCLA Health, liquid biopsies for certain cancers are becoming more popular because they are less invasive, Healthcare Purchasing News July 18 reports. This method can be used to monitor cancer treatment and accurately evaluate effectiveness. In this study, UCLA researchers studied…

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Editor's Note The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on July 15 released its Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) proposed rule that would raise rates by a net 2.7% in CY 2023. This update is based on the projected hospital market basket percentage increase of 3.1%, reduced by 0.4%…

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Editor's Note This study led by researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, UCHealth, Aurora, finds an association between healthcare workers (HCWs) reporting high childcare stress and burnout during COVID-19. The researchers surveyed 58,408 HCWs in 208 organizations from October 2021 to May 2022 on their concerns about…

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Editor's Note This national survey study led by researchers from Stanford University finds that the COVID-19 pandemic was linked to disparities in the receipt of timely cancer care in Black and Latinx adults. Of 1,240 adult cancer patients surveyed, Black and Latinx respondents had greater odds of : involuntary treatment…

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Editor's Note The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on July 14 identified the recall of American Contract Systems’ COVID Test Kit Nonsterile and Clean Catch Urine Kit as Class I, the most serious. The recall was initiated because the Kits were assembled in an uncontrolled facility by people without proper…

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Editor's Note The Joint Commission on July 13 announced via its blog Dateline @ TJC that it has partnered with the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to compile and make available several CISA educational resources and tools on cybersecurity at no cost to healthcare providers. These include: A template…

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Editor's Note The healthcare software company Epic has been seeing an upward trend in its revenue, reporting “double-digits [growth] every year for the last decade,” Becker’s Health IT June 13 reports. Citing CB Insights and Forbes, Becker’s noted that Epic’s revenue grew by 13% in 2021 and hit $3.8 billion.…

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Editor's Note This Italian study describes the long-term features of the immune response to COVID-19 for different ages after mild infection. In this cohort of 252 family clusters with COVID-19, the immune response persisted until 12 months after infection in all age groups, with significantly higher antibody peaks for younger…

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Editor's Note The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a surge in antimicrobial resistance in US hospitals, reversing years of progress, according to a new analysis released July 12 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). During the first year of the pandemic, antimicrobial-resistant infections and deaths increased in hospitals…

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Editor's Note The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on July 12 that it will hold an emergency meeting—the second emergency meeting convened—next week to determine the global health risk of monkeypox, CNBC July 12 reports. The organization decided not to declare monkeypox a global health emergency just last month, noted…

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