Contemporary Pediatrics Newsletter

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Why children with diabetes are at risk for disordered eating

Patients with diabetes are at risk for developing inappropriate relationships with food, according to new research, highlighting the need for healthcare providers to provide more psychosocial support to this population.

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Step-by-step guidance for toilet training kids with ASD

Here's a practical, step-by-step guide for providers to use to help parents toilet train their children with autism or other developmental disorders.

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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.

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.

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.