Vance Vanier’s Blog
How a Proposed Change in Drug Pricing Would Affect A Value-Based Model
Political discussion on how to solve America’s drug pricing problem has been ongoing for years, and for good reason. Patients in the United States often face intimidating prices when filling their prescriptions. According to data [...]
Should COVID-19 Aftermath Be of Concern for Primary Care Physicians?
Nine months into the pandemic, it has become clear that patients’ health problems may not end when their acute COVID-19 infection does. While formal research into the virus’s long-term implications is still too nascent to [...]
Assessing the Long-Term Impact of COVID-19 on Telepsychiatry Availability
Before COVID-19, the question of whether digital consultations would ever supplant in-person sessions as the industry norm would have been difficult to imagine. However, when faced with the choice of either shuttering their doors against [...]
The Potential for Telemedicine Support in Emergency Medicine
While telemedicine’s applications in primary and senior home care have been extensively covered in journals and newspapers, comparatively little has been said about digitally-facilitated treatment’s place in emergency medicine. Telemedicine has significant, if relatively untapped, [...]
“Waiting Out” COVID-19 Isn’t a Solution for Outpatient Care
The likelihood of a second COVID-19 wave occurring in the fall appears high to the point of inevitability. Given this, outpatient providers must make a concerted effort to inform patients that the instructions that they [...]
Advanced Genomic Technologies May Speed COVID-19 Vaccine Development
Since its global debut at the start of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has simultaneously posed an exhausting challenge and sparked remarkable innovation worldwide. In no field is this more evident than vaccine development. Over the [...]