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Healthcare innovation companies are just beginning to understand technology challenges that come with engaging patients with chronic diseases in care management and care transition. Many of healthcare IT vendors assumed that a simple access to portals with half-baked information and fragmented medical records will do the trick. Boy… were they wrong!
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Although cancer cuts life short for the majority, it usually will provide for time at the end of life.
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The bad news: Collecting payments from patients is, in many ways, more challenging than submitting a claim form to a payer. The good news: Attention to detail and good customer service can go a long way toward plugging self-pay patient revenue leaks.
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The Patient-Center Outcomes Research Institute is a big deal these days, "authorized by Congress to conduct research to provide information about the best available evidence to help patients and their health care providers make more informed decisions.
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In 2012, one of the major priorities of the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) and others across healthcare will be working to engage consumers with health IT (HIT).
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Tambra Raye Stevenson believes if African Americans adopt an African diet, their health will improve.
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This episode is part of a larger program that will run for 3 months: The Rise Of The Patient. (#ROTPt) Click this link for more details on the program There is a movement happening. It is a quiet one however a critical one.
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Historical perspective“Listen to the patient: he is telling you the diagnosis,” William Osler urged students he taught at Johns Hopkins and Oxford more than a century ago.
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Doctors, generalists as well as specialists, cannot recommend the right treatment without understanding how the patient values the trade-offs. Regrettably, patients’ preferences are often misdiagnosed. We outline a method for making better preference diagnoses.
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Paul Hodgkin, the founder and chief executive of Patient Opinion, wonders if the NHS’s promised digital revolution will help one of the site’s recent users.
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If you have more reasons Twitter can be a good health resource, please share them.
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I was struck by the number of patients who had patient blogs and the reasons why they turned to the social web.
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The theorization of health issues is crucial both for understanding and as a guide for action. The history of public health is often presented as a story of constantly improving population health. Yet such a progressive history masks a number of distinct periods of public health practice that seem to underpin certain forms of human identity (Armstrong, 1993). Via bacigalupe
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Cala la fiducia nell'efficacia del vaccino antinfluenzale e aumenta la propensione degli italiani ad affrontare l'influenza con i 'rimedi della nonna'. E' questa la fotografia scattata dall'Associazione Nazionale dell'Industria Farmaceutica dell'Automedicazione (Anifa)
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Patient satisfaction in medicine and healthcare can be a signfiicant marketing driver for physicians offices, and hospitals. But is that where it ends? As a marketing technique? Via Parag Vora
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TehelkaEqual treatment of unequals perpetuates inequalityTehelkaFOR THE governing elite, discrimination against Dalits is an overblown problem that is actually a thing of the past. Via Thabo Mophiring
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But in the past 2 weeks the UK media has brandished the LCP as the “death pathway”, and a minority of health professionals have stated it is a way to hasten deaths in patients.
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More than one in five people (21 percent) cited embarrassment as a reason to seek medical information online instead of in person with their doctor; embarrassment was the top reason for 18-24 year-olds.
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In his new book, the cardiologist and director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute is on a tear to transform health using the latest tech.
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An informed decision to accept a health care intervention requires an understanding of its likely benefit. This study assessed participants' estimates of the benefit, as well as minimum acceptable benefit, of screening for breast and bowel cancer and medication to prevent hip fracture and cardiovascular disease
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Patients felt that they could and should take responsibility for and control of their day-to-day disease management. They saw doctors as having a role in this process, but when this was lacking, many people felt able to use alternative means to achieve their goal, although the doctor’s function in terms of gatekeeping resources could create difficulties for them in this respect.
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Measurement of the patient’s experience is a now a key factor in providing improved health care. The Patient Experience Network has provided a lot of information around the measurement of the...
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