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| 05.01.2013 |
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Chronic illnesses have long been a debilitating condition for the millions of individuals who suffer from them and a costly, difficult-to-manage puzzle for physicians and hospitals. Recently, the launch of a new tool in the search for better care for those...
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| 05.01.2013 |
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Knowing the costs of clinical tests may be a simple way to slash healthcare spending, concludes a new study that pitted the prescribing practices of doctors who knew the costs of blood tests vs. those who did not. Overall, the study analyzed the use of...
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| 04.01.2013 |
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Diabetes is a major driver of healthcare costs in the United States. Currently, 79 million Americans have prediabetes, a condition where blood glucose levels are higher than normal, but not yet high enough to be considered diabetes. These individuals will...
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| 04.01.2013 |
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Gum disease can start with a speck of blood on your toothbrush and, if left untreated, can eventually lead to tooth loss. It is estimated that over 50 percent of the U.S. population has some form of gum disease, most of which has been undiagnosed...
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| 04.01.2013 |
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Diabetes receives a great deal of attention as one of the most prevalent chronic diseases affecting the health of our nation. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), diabetes impacts 25.8 million people, more than 8 percent of the...
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| 04.01.2013 |
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Purpose/Objectives: This article provides lessons learned for case management organizations (CMOs) contemplating implementation of a telehealth monitoring program. Although this pilot project targeted a limited number of elderly, diabetic, primarily...
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| 04.01.2013 |
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It is well documented that the clinical and economic costs associated with chronic medical conditions like heart disease, cancer, and diabetes are significant. Patients with serious chronic conditions make up approximately 1 percent of the U.S. population...
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| 04.01.2013 |
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70% 7 out of 10 deaths among Americans each year are from chronic diseases. Heart disease, cancer and stroke account for more than 50 percent of all deaths each year. 50% In 2005, 133 million Americans – almost 1 out of every 2 adults – had at...
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| 03.01.2013 |
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Case management (CM) has long had a presence in emergency rooms at adult facilities, with a focus on screening for medical necessity for the correct level of care, thereby avoiding unnecessary admissions. The case manager, in coordination with a social...
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| 03.01.2013 |
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The use of electronic prescribing systems in hospitals holds the potential to drastically reduce the number of medication errors – to the tune of 50 million drug errors every year, according to new research in the Journal of the American Medical...
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| 02.01.2013 |
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Significant advancements in mobile technology have placed thousands of helpful computer applications at our fingertips. There are more than 1 billion smart phones in use globally and that number is expected to double in another three years, translating to one...
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| 02.01.2013 |
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Can technology engage patients for the long term? It seems that we have two answers, which this article will go in-depth to explore. The two choices are: • “No, unless…” • “Yes, if…” Now let’s take...
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| 02.01.2013 |
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Over the past 10 years, prescription medication abuse has increased at such a rapid rate that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now call it “an epidemic.” The human and financial costs of the epidemic of prescription drug...
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| 02.01.2013 |
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If you’re old enough to be working in healthcare you might remember when cell phones were a big brick. Or maybe, like me, you even remember party lines on your home phone. You definitely recall days before mobile technology like smart phones and tablet...
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| 01.01.2013 |
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Medical care as we know it is changing rapidly. Due to the current healthcare crisis, there is a need for a concerted effort to improve the quality of healthcare while reducing spiraling medical costs. To accomplish this, a new approach to healthcare is...
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| 01.01.2013 |
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For patients receiving healthcare services, the site of care can play a large part in how much a service costs, according to a recent article appearing in the Raleigh News & Observer, which compared relative costs among...
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| 01.01.2013 |
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In an attempt to better treat individuals who experience an ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), the technical name for the most dangerous form of heart attack, the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association released updated...
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| 12.01.2012 |
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An aging baby boomer population and an increased insured population will create the need for an additional 52,000 primary care doctors within the United States by 2025, according to a study published in the Annals of Family Medicine in November. Under the Patient...
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| 12.01.2012 |
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In what may be a potential boon for those in need of artificial limbs, scientists have created a self-healing plastic skin that can repair itself when sustaining an injury like a tear or a cut. The research team hailing from Stanford University...
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| 11.01.2012 |
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Meeting patients’ healthcare needs can be efficient and predictable when faced with familiar situations; however, when faced with a clinical condition that we are not familiar with, our level of comfort and confidence in our decision making, relative to...
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