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Gerald Onuoha, MD, MS’15

Medical Marketing Has Skyrocketed in the Past Two Decades, While Oversight Remains Limited

In an article recently published in the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA), researchers from The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice reviewed medical marketing (the marketing of prescription drugs, disease awareness, laboratory tests and health services to consumers and professionals) over a 20-year period from 1997 through 2016 and found that while it had increased dramatically from about $17.7 billion to $29.9 billion, regulation has not.

It’s all in the algorithm!

In an effort to improve what can often be a frustrating and confusing search for information about cancer treatment options, two PhD students at The Dartmouth Institute, Katie Saunders and Curtis Peterson, are using machine-learning technology to rate and evaluate whether the materials patients receive is clear and helpful.

Veterans Health Administration Hospitals Outperform Non–VHA Hospitals in Most Healthcare Markets

The Dartmouth Institute Honors the Legacy of Professor Lisa Schwartz

The Dartmouth Institute honors the legacy of Professor Lisa Schwartz whose pioneering research helped improve the communication of medical information to physicians, policymakers, media, and the public.

Patient Engagement as a New Blockbuster Drug, Not Quite Yet, Study Finds

A new study by Dartmouth Institute researchers tries to answer the question: If patient engagement is the new ‘blockbuster drug,’ why are we not seeing spectacular effects? The team conducted 103 interviews with 68 healthcare professionals designed to measure understanding of PAE and barriers to implementation were conducted in May of 2015 and May of 2016.

Key Elements: Valuing Medical Students in Research

Dartmouth Institute researcher Paul Barr, PhD, MSc and the Open Recordings team have been working with Geisel medical students on a range of projects centered on developing and implementing scalable solutions for the use of recordings in clinical practice.

Professor Ellen Meara Appointed to Endowed Professorship

Ellen Meara, PhD, has been named to the Peggy Y. Thomson Professorship in the Evaluative Clinical Sciences.

Recent Survey Provides an Updated National Estimate of Doctors’ Financial Ties to Industry

Dartmouth Institute physician-researchers Lisa Schwartz and Steven Woloshin were part of a team that conducted a national survey of internal medicine doctors to better understand the effects of changes in gift and payment policies from pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers to physicians implemented in 2013.

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