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**The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs**

**Wednesday, September 23, 2020**

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TODAY ON THE BLOG

QUALITY OF CARE

Telehealth Should Be Expanded-If It Can Address Today's Health Care
Challenges

By Shantanu Agrawal and Tejal K. Gandhi

For telehealth to persist after the COVID-19 pandemic is over, policies
supporting its continued adoption and integration must focus on
measurable improvements to systemic shortcomings in health care. Read
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IN THE JOURNAL

OPIOID USE DISORDER

Regulating Opioid Supply Through Insurance Coverage

By M. Christopher Auld, Jill R. Horwitz, Benjamin Lukenchuk, and Lynn
McClelland

Christopher Auld and coauthors find that requiring physicians to receive
prior authorization for OxyContin prescriptions in Manitoba, Canada,
significantly decreased OxyContin prescriptions, especially for
opioid-naïve patients, with only modest substitution of other opioids.
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**A CLOSER LOOK**-The 100 Percent Fallacy

When students receive their medical training, they are tested and graded
like any other student, with achieving 100 percent considered the
optimal outcome. However, this definition of "best" does not make sense
in actual medical practice, argues Richard J. Baron in his 2017 blog
post. Read his explanation and recommendation to policy makers on how to
achieve better quality of care
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