OHSU has opened a centralized Mission Control center — the first time since the coordinating effort launched in 2017 that all of the technology and teams have been in one centralized location. Matthias Merkel, M.D., Ph.D., says, “Now we are instead working with unprecedented collaboration, better connecting Oregon’s health services, improving access for Oregonians, and supporting clinicians at every level of care through OMCC and OBCC.”

Kimberly Hutchison, M.D., discusses new testing and technology to make sleep apnea easier to live with; she says, "There’s a new thing coming out every few months. You want to have a very validated form of measuring and monitoring. At this point in time, that would be your physician.”

OHSU has opened a centralized Mission Control center — the first time since the coordinating effort launched in 2017 that all of the technology and teams have been in one centralized location.

The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a total of $2 million to OHSU and Columbia University "to improve care delivery, advance research capabilities and address emerging challenges related to interoperable health information technology" as part of its "Leading Edge Acceleration Projects in Health IT program."

In a Popular Science article on the failure of insurers to update their mental health care provider directories, experts, including Jane Zhu, M.D., explain how patients can navigate these challenges to find treatment: “Verify, verify, verify. Accuracy in behavioral health provider directories is akin to a coin flip.”

OHSU will receive federal funding to accelerate adoption of health IT in behavioral health settings.

A Wine Enthusiast columnist who had two cavities in the past four years asks Brian Guthrie, D.M.D., about the impacts of wine on teeth; Guthrie says wine’s acidity is the number one risk to the structure of teeth and stimulating saliva flow will help; he says, "Your saliva is the best buffer to those acids.”

A study led by Archie Bleyer, M.D., finds the prevalence of firearms, not mental illness, is what's driving gun deaths in U.S.

A Medscape article highlights new clinical trials available to patients with breast cancer, including a study led by Kerri Winters-Stone, Ph.D., called “Exercising Together.” The study seeks to determine whether exercising together prevents decline in a couple's physical and mental health as one partner undergoes radiation therapy.

Amy Cantor, M.D., author of new guidelines that found insufficient evidence to support screening and treating iron deficiency in pregnant people without symptoms of iron deficiency, is quoted in a Canadian Broadcasting Company article on how redefining "normal" iron levels could help women's health: "Conflicting guidelines, variable clinical practices, changing cutoffs for diagnosis, and access to health care services may affect the accuracy of reported rates of screening and supplementation in all populations and in those at risk for experiencing health disparities."