The statewide experiment aims to test new payment systems, prevent unnecessary treatments, constrain overall growth in the cost of services and drugs, and address public health problems such as opioid abuse.
A group founded by a University of Vermont Medical School pediatrician believes that a smartphone triage tool aimed at community health workers in developing countries could go some ways to reducing preventable child deaths in these areas
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
After a long battle, proponents of e-prescribing have achieved their goal of electronic prescribing of controlled substances becoming legal nationwide, as Vermont has become the last holdout to change its rules.
BERLIN, Vt. – Dr. Marvin Malek has been yearning and advocating for a publicly financed, single-payer health care system for at least two decades. Now, as Vermont stands on the threshold of being the first state to launch such a plan, he’s confessing to trepidation. “I am pretty damn nervous,” he confided before bounding off […]
By James C. Shehan – Vermont law has banned manufacturers of prescription drug, device, and biologics products from providing most gifts to physicians and other healthcare professionals since 2009 and has required these manufacturers to report permitted gifts and payments to Vermont HCPs since 2002 (summarized in our previous post here). On February 4, 2014, […]
Pharmaceutical companies landed a big win in Vermont yesterday, after a three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit ruled that a Vermont law restricting the mining drug prescription data violates the First Amendment.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.