Contemporary Pediatrics Newsletter

To view this email as a web page, click here.

NICU graduation is the icing on the cake for families heading home

For parents of infants who require extra care after birth, experiences in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) can be filled with the anxiety and stress of frequent setbacks. Here's how one hospital helps parents mark the transition to home and bring a joyful closure to the NICU experience.

Find out more

Father, son share similar blue bumps

A father brings his 8-year-old son to the office for evaluation of new, asymptomatic blue bumps that have appeared on the boy's chest over the last several months. The dad notes that he has had similar lesions as well.

What's the diagnosis?

ADHD in Children

To glean new insights into the treatment of ADHD, athenaResearch analyzed records from all 295,000 patients who visited doctors for ADHD treatment on athenahealth's EHR service from January-April 2016.

CONTEMPORARY PEDIATRICS VIDEO

Does strep elevate risk for mental disorders?

For Contemporary Pediatrics, Dr Bobby Lazzara discusses a large cohort study published in JAMA Psychiatry that examined whether children with a positive strep test are more likely than their counterparts to develop mental disorders, particularly tic disorders and OCD.

All Healthcare is not Local: The Human Cost of Disparate Health Data

Can you access patient data from outside systems within your existing EHR workflow? Now you can.

Read how a truly national record locator service improves patient care coordination and positively impacts care quality.

This is a post-only, outbound email. Please do not reply to this email as we will be unable to respond to your reply. Please use the links provided if you have questions or concerns regarding this email or your subscription.