Sentences with phrase «doctors visit patients»

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Now introduce smartphone technology and applications that let the information exchange, virtual examination, and imaging happen in multiple directions — between patient and physician and hospital — and you've made a doctor's visit smarter, faster, and cheaper.

Every subsequent doctor visit or treatment would be added to the blockchain, including those in different cities and countries, creating a complete, historical record of the patient's health.

We drove all across the Haitian countryside visiting hospitals and meeting doctors, patients and children.

This increase in abnormal test results can have negative consequences for medicine in the form of extra testing, additional patient visits to clinics / hospitals, and added doctor services, all of which result in additional costs and burdens to patients or to the healthcare system and are potentially harmful.

A Cleveland Clinic program lets patients schedule a «virtual visit» with a doctor using a tablet, smartphone, or desktop.

But now that Obamacare is ensuring health care providers get paid for better outcomes rather than the number of visits a patient makes to the doctor, you can be sure hospitals will be using data to make sure they're delivering the best treatment they can.

Flu season may peak this week, with patients exhibiting flu - like symptoms making up more than 6 % of all visits to the doctor, according to the CDC's most recent weekly FluView report.

Before would - be Lemonaid patients can initiate a visit, they see a list of «who we can't help,» detailing when they should see a doctor in person, said Dr. Davis Liu, head of service development.

Patients can usually get feedback from the doctor within minutes, and often for the same price or less than an in - person doctor's office or urgent - care clinic visit.

Just consider the ways in which patients are clamoring for more telemedicine and virtual doctor visit options while medical schools are harnessing virtual reality systems like Microsoft's Hololens to teach anatomy to young surgeons.

Context Media allows doctors to educate patients before, during and after their visit, by engaging patients in the doctors» waiting rooms.

Clearly, many doctor visits could be replaced by a 10 minute FaceTime call, saving the patient and the practice a great deal of time (not just the time in the office, but the commute time in both directions).

Jain elaborated on those successes in an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association last year, noting the efficiencies lead to better outcomes for patients, who can more reliably receive routine medical care and stay out of emergency rooms; doctors, who can more easily manage patients» chronic conditions; and cost - savings for the broader medical system, as managing chronic disease is substantially cheaper than repeated ER visits.

With the doctor's encouragement and the patient's agreement, the AA's make frequent visits, surrounding the hospitalized alcoholic with acceptance and offering him the AA recovery program.

A talk with the patient's doctor, preferably before the first visit, can be helpful in ministering both to the patient and to his family.

In a typical half - day visit to the West Bank village of Beit Liqia recently the doctor saw 79 patients.

If a doctor or hospital visit is required, patient data can help medical personnel tell the difference between a simple fall or a cardiac event leading to a fall.

For the first trial, half of the women had pre - and postnatal lactation consultant visits and their doctors were reminded by electronic prompts to speak to the patients about breastfeeding during office visits.

As a patient or client, you have rights just as you do when visiting a doctor.

«Being prepared for a medical visit and knowing what questions to ask your doctor allows patients to be more hands - on in their recovery process, increasing their chances of overcoming injury,» said Dr. Montgomery.

It seemed impossible to attain this in a setting where patients rarely saw the same doctor from visit to visit and couldn't get appointments sooner than 3 months in advance.

The investigators posed as patients and visited the hospital where Kamasa introduced himself as a doctor and attempted to administer some injections and drips on them but the investigators turned them down.

There are more than 7,000 doctors trained in the six countries included in the revised ban — Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen — currently working in the United States and receiving 1.2 million patient visits a year, a new report found.

Chatting up a male visitor, the reporter learned visiting relations are invited into the wards when they are needed, perhaps by the patients or by a doctor or nurse.

At the Federal Medical Centre, Yola, Adamawa State, which has about 60 resident doctors, one of our correspondents who visited the facility on Thursday observed as several patients were seen unattended to due to the doctors» strike.

Very similar to what I was saying the other day about national health insurance... the medical / insurance complex is so full of bad apples that the only way to restrain them is with fewer patient visits and way fewer doctors.

But new computer systems increasingly in use at clinics can be set to prompt medical assistants, doctors and nurses during a visit for the tests recommended for each patient.

Despite all the recent advances in health care, the doctor's visit itself has hardly changed — patients describe their symptoms to a physician, who conducts a physical exam.

«Any patients who are worried about their treatment should visit their doctor to discuss their concerns,» concluded Andersen.

(Many experts, including Hicks, say this recommendation is probably unrealistic due to the need to pay for follow - up visits and limitations on both doctors» and patients» time in an outpatient setting.)

Once a program has collected the information, the computer returns a list of potential illnesses that might cause the listed symptoms and suggests whether the patient should seek care immediately, visit a doctor in the next few days or use self - care methods, such as resting at home.

Once it is completely developed, such sensor technology should make it possible for a doctor or other individual to screen a patient for many infectious and genetic diseases in the course of an ordinary office visit.

But, as Garfield points out, although these temporary visiting health workers were helpful, they could not replace the long - time doctors that patients had relied on prior to the disaster.

Plus, many patients are already visiting these stores to shop, adding a convenience factor that a doctor's office or urgent care center can't match.

«To me, this study suggests that the current 20 minute visit - based model of healthcare is broken and that we need to move towards promoting and reimbursing innovative solutions such as doctors and patients electronically collaborating on their healthcare outside the office visit.»

Also, the geriatric patients were more likely to feel comfortable with the physician partners in the room than the general medicine patients, perhaps because older patients are more accustomed to having someone else, such as a caregiver or family member, in the room during their doctor visits.

In the second cohort of 77 COPD patients, the 23 patients with allergic sensitization (determined by immunoglobulin E testing) were significantly more likely to wheeze, to experience nighttime awakening due to cough, and to have COPD exacerbations requiring antibiotic treatment or an acute visit to the doctor.

These patients were significantly more likely to wheeze, have chronic cough, and have chronic phlegm and had a significantly increased risk of experiencing a COPD exacerbation that required an acute visit to the doctor.

The study analyzed 210 patients who had visited their doctors with so - called vestibular disorders.

One such transformative project is Flip the Clinic, an online hub for patients and doctors to exchange ideas, or flips, to reinvent the traditional model of a visit to the doctor's office.

The researchers then looked to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data and found that the annual dip in gestation length closely aligns with the time when the most patients visited the doctor for flulike symptoms.

In 1997, the mainstays of therapy for patients with macular degeneration include daily monitoring of the integrity of their central vision (usually by viewing a simple printed grid) as well as periodic visits to their eye doctor.

In a move expected to spur controversy, the funding will come from increased charges paid by patients to visit a doctor and for diagnostic procedures and will include AU$ 1 billion from the Health and Hospitals Fund.

Patients and doctors alike share their answers in the comments, with the hope that the dialogue will improve the experience of a clinic visit.

In addition to estimating costs for infused chemotherapy drugs, the researchers also looked at what cancer patients were asked to pay for a doctor visit.

«What was most surprising was that patients who underwent aggressive treatment for their prostate cancer were more likely to receive routine lab testing and visits with their doctor than those not receiving aggressive treatment.

Patients also worry that recording a doctor's visit might be illegal, especially if done covertly.

With more and more patients seeking to record their clinical visits, Elwyn and Open Recordings researchers, say that now is the time for doctors and health care organizations to embrace the value of recording.

If you are doctor, there is a good chance that at least one of your last 10 patients recorded their visit — either with or without permission.

At the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona — one of the few health care organizations in the country to offer patients recordings of office visits — doctors who take part receive a 10 percent reduction in the cost of their medical defense, and $ 1 million extra liability coverage.