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3. Just five little minutes
Minor five-minute changes to administrative charting requirements aren’t so minor, especially when you add more time for quality assurance reporting or pay-for-performance initiatives. Suddenly huge swaths of time from a doctor’s opportunity to take care of their patients. We need more care time and less data entry time, wrote Westby Fisher.
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2. Cancer genetics: Learning the rules for breaking chromosomes
In many cancers chromosomes get reshuffled, with sections breaking off and attaching to other chromosomes in what are called translocations. Fred Alt and his team are trying to better understand where chromosomes are most likely to break and where the broken pieces are most likely to attach, knowledge that could help better understand some aspects of cancer, reported Children’s Hospital Boston’s Tom Ulrich.
1. Stealth drugs: The necessity of drug distribution permits for devices
It is generally known that a prescription drug manufacturer must obtain state licenses in order to legally distribute product and that the number of licenses required varies depending upon the method of distribution. But what about devices? Device companies are beginning to realize is that they too have licensing requirements in numerous states, reported Frank Fazio.
