MHE November 2022

More practices are directly dispensing oral cancer drugs, bypassing specialty pharmacies. What does this trend mean for patients and healthcare?

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute tool evaluates the probability of having genetic mutations that confer elevated risk for 18 cancers.

As SCAN Health Plan worked to boost medication adherence among members, it made a startling discovery.

“For the past 20 to 25 years, the data has fairly consistently shown that, overall, of people who have been prescribed long-term medications, about half of those patients are not going to take them as prescribed,” says Todd Ruppar, Ph.D., a professor in the College of Nursing at Rush University in Chicago.

‘We’ve been successful, and we’d like to share our success,’ says the chief medical officer of the healthcare system’s employee health plan.