One Drop, a digital diabetes self-management platform, will partner with Fitbit to provide data-driven care management tools to those living with diabetes.

The prevalence of physician burnout could worsen the shortage of doctors in the U.S., according to an American Medical Association (AMA) survey which found nearly one out of five physicians want to cut back their clinical hours to part-time within a year, while others are thinking of retirement, pursuing a different kind of practice or leaving healthcare altogether.

Utah and New Jersey are the first states approved by CMS to design demonstration projects allowing Medicaid to pay for opioid addiction treatment, including enrollees residing in residential treatment facilities.

In a position paper presented at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Annual Scientific Meeting, allergists and immunologists presented a case for telemedicine in allergy care. The paper offered recommendations for improving telemedicine access to allergy patients in Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.

Researchers from Harvard have developed a predictive model, called MELD-Plus, capable of identifying patients at high-risk for developing negative outcomes following a hospital admission for cirrhosis. Findings were published in PLOS One.

CMS quality programs will require the use of a new health IT standard, called Clinical Quality Language (CQL), in the 2019 care year to “better express logic defining measure populations to improve the accuracy and clarity” of electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs).

Telehealth could make managing chronic conditions like hypertension more cost effective, according to a study published in JMIR Medical Informatics.

Analyzing brain patterns with machine learning could predict people at risk of suicide, according to a study published in Nature Human Behavior.