Researchers have identified 16 assessment scales with “moderate” to “very good” abilities to determine the likelihood of death within six months to five years in various older populations. Susan L. Mitchell, HMS professor of medicine at Hebrew SeniorLife, is quoted.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has named 11 health care providers from New England, including three from HMS, to join the first class of “innovation advisors.”
Putting all publicly available tweets with the word “cholera” and the hashtag “#cholera” on a timeline, researchers at HMS were able to show a surge in cholera-related tweets early in the epidemic. John Brownstein, HMS assistant professor of pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Boston, is one of the founders of HealthMap, which aggregates global information about infectious diseases. Rumi Chunara, HMS research fellow in pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Boston and at HealthMap, was also quoted.
Five area hospital and doctor groups, including Partners HealthCare, the Beth Israel Deaconess Physician Organization and Mount Auburn Cambridge Independent Practice Association, are trying out the new accountable care organization model, which is designed to improve the care of Medicare patients while lowering the costs of treating them.
A research collaboration called OpenNotes has set out to discover what would happen if patients had access to their medical records. Tom Delbanco, the Richard A. and Florence Koplow-James L. Tullis Professor of General Medicine and Primary Care at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, is a principal investigator of the study. Jan Walker, HMS instructor in medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, is the lead author.
New research suggests that losing a loved one can increase the risk of heart attack. Murray Mittleman, HMS associate professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, is the lead author.
Millions of people taking statin medications to lower their cholesterol are at a slightly higher risk of diabetes, suggests new research. JoAnn Manson, the Michael and Lee Bell Professor of Women’s Health at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is a co-author of the study.
In an article, researchers identified who they believe was the first person to get cholera in Haiti after the earthquake two years ago. Louise Ivers, HMS assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and David Walton, HMS instructor in medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, wrote the article.
