The HCPLive conference coverage page features articles, videos, and expert-led live coverage from major medical meetings throughout the year.
Clinical Outcome Measures and Future Directions for Multiple Sclerosis Care Centers
June 2nd 2013To prepare for coming changes at the CMS driven by the Affordable care Act, multiple sclerosis care centers should begin to develop MS-specific electronic health record templates that record clinical outcome measures.
A Patient-Centered Medical Home Model for Measuring Multiple Sclerosis Outcomes
June 2nd 2013With so many different interdependent symptoms affecting MS pathogenesis, effective treatment requires intervention by a multidisciplinary team, with progress assessed by validated instruments that measure variables such as physical health, psychological health, and social relationships.
Integrating Behavioral Medicine into Effective Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis
June 1st 2013Comprehensive care for patients with MS starts with medical treatment of the symptoms of their disease, but must also include intervention by clinicians who can address the mental, physical, and social challenges experienced by many patients.
How to Handle MS Patients Who Refuse to Treat Their Disease with Conventional Medications
May 30th 2013Treating patients with multiple sclerosis who opt to use only supplements and other complementary and alternative approaches requires a great deal of tact and education, and input and support from all members of the multidisciplinary treatment team.
Researcher Sorts Through Sea of IBS Remedies
May 22nd 2013As irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) remains a complicated condition to treat with an etiology that's still unknown, it's difficult for physicians to find the best proven therapies among new remedies and the variety of pharmacological and nondrug options they have been trying for years.
Colonoscopy Prevents Crohn's Disease Post-Operative Endoscopic Recurrence
May 22nd 2013While it's already clinically understood that most patients with Crohn's disease suffer a recurrence following an intestinal resection, researchers have not evaluated the best strategy to prevent the disease from recurring.
Abdominal, Bowel Symptom Improvement From Linaclotide Meets FDA Standards for IBS-C
May 21st 2013Patients taking linaclotide experience clinically meaningful improvement in abdominal and bowel symptoms, which closely correlate with the US Food and Drug Administration's new criteria for irritable bowel syndrome with constipation (IBS-C).
Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Boosts Cardiovascular Risk, But Lacks Management Plan
May 21st 2013Growing evidence suggests increased cardiovascular risk in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) - in particular nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASN) - but no data exists to support a specific management approach.
Hospitalists Must Learn to Adapt if They Want to Thrive in a Rapidly Changing Health Care Landscape
May 20th 2013Robert Wachter, MD, assured attendees at Hospital Medicine 2013 that trends point to the ongoing health of the profession of hospital medicine, even in the face of increasing pressures to provide more and more care in the outpatient setting.