Updated COVID-19 vaccines; a telehealth anniversary; clinical updates for primary care – Morning Medical Update

Updated COVID-19 vaccines

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the updated mRNA vaccines against the latest circulating variants of COVID-19. Read the news release here, and check out this COVID-19 Vaccines resource page for the most current information from the federal regulators.

20 years of telehealth

The U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) did not invent telehealth. But it is celebrating the 20-year anniversary of funding Project ECHO, a model that has served thousands of experts and health workers to benefit patients. It “proved wildly successful and remains the model on which a significant amount of telehealthcare is based,” said two AHRQ analysts who commemorate the anniversary with this write-up.

Keeping up with the clinical

Independent primary care physicians are savvy business operators, but they also need to keep abreast of the latest clinical developments involving common conditions of their patients. An easy way to do that is by visiting www.patientcareonline.com, a sister publication to Medical Economics. Patient Care also publishes digital versions of its print supplement here, and a digital edition is here.