Sentences with phrase «health of patients with»

By showing that cancer cells were not autonomous and self perpetuating, as previously believed, but were dependent on chemical signals, such as hormones to grow and survive, and that depriving cancer cells of those signals could restore the health of patients with widespread metastases, Dr. Huggins provided an immense stimulus to research on cancer chemotherapy.

The finding suggests that one inexpensive way to improve the health of patients with type 2 diabetes might be to improve the duration and quality of their sleep.

The findings, which appear in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN), suggest that targeting this byproduct may be a novel strategy for safeguarding the heart health of patients with CKD.

A University of Manchester scientist has discovered that very small changes in the level of acidity in blood may have a detrimental impact on the health of patients with kidney disease.

«The strength of our study is that it provides a real world assessment of how testing in patients with chest pain has an impact on the subsequent health of patients with chest pain,» said lead author Pamela Douglas, M.D., Geller Professor of Research in Cardiovascular Diseases at the Duke Clinical Research Institute.

The study — the largest to date assessing the mental and emotional health of patients with cancer using a fully standardized, diagnostic face - to - face interview — is published in the October 6 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

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Ready with cash and either Health Canada authorizations or doctors» notes saying their patients report relief when using marijuana, they walk up to a counter inside Cannabis As Living Medicine (CALM), one of the city's longest - running medical pot dispensaries.

Instead of pursuing a way to optimize ads, for example, he and his team are creating software that improves the way oncologists monitor their patients» health, and creates new channels of sharing data with researchers.

Health systems are beginning to hire lawyers to assist patients with various legal concerns free of charge as medical care moves toward value - based models that aim to offer more holistic care, according to Kaiser Health News.

Sequence Bio plans to decode the DNA of 100,000 people — about a fifth of Newfoundland and Labrador's population — and the provincial government is partnering with the company to help recruit consenting patients and provide access to their health records.

Topol pointed out that currently there's a ton of «information blocking» going on by health providers that don't» want to share data with others for fear of losing their patients (i.e. business).

At the same time, better homecare options — largely made possible by digital health innovations, telemedicine, and (hopefully) new payment structures — will keep many patients out of the hospital to begin with.

-- Ahmed Albaiti, founder and CEO of Medullan, a digital health innovation company that works with payers, providers, and pharma on patient engagement.

Southern California startup Ceresti Health is using technology to relieve the stress associated with in - home care of Alzheimer's and dementia patients.

Starting a business is never easy, and the health - tech field comes with its own set of challenges, including slower penetration because of regulatory FDA concerns, HIPAA patient privacy rules, reimbursement rules and bottlenecks.

Suneel Gupta, head of mobile, for One Medical, said patients engage with his company's virtual health platform 25 to 30 times a week.

Improving the diagnosis and management of patients with fatty liver conditions was the motivation for the 2014 WA Innovator of the Year winner, Resonance Health.

Increasingly, says Greven, health care providers such as private hospitals are weaving Prompt Alert's technology into larger electronic medical record (EMR) databases, thereby providing these organizations with a means of communicating with patients in highly practical ways that improve the bottom line at the same time.

The media giant is partnering with Independence Health Group — one of the largest Blue Shield insurers in the US — to develop an open source tech and communications platform that will allow patients to access their data throughout their healthcare journey.

In Michigan, the Michigan Pathways to Better Health (MPBH) program, implemented by the Michigan Public Health Institute and the Michigan Department of Community Health, is using tablet - based checklists to collect demographic information in communities with the greatest health needs and assess behavioral health, and social service factors impacting each patient to get a fuller picture of social determinants of hHealth (MPBH) program, implemented by the Michigan Public Health Institute and the Michigan Department of Community Health, is using tablet - based checklists to collect demographic information in communities with the greatest health needs and assess behavioral health, and social service factors impacting each patient to get a fuller picture of social determinants of hHealth Institute and the Michigan Department of Community Health, is using tablet - based checklists to collect demographic information in communities with the greatest health needs and assess behavioral health, and social service factors impacting each patient to get a fuller picture of social determinants of hHealth, is using tablet - based checklists to collect demographic information in communities with the greatest health needs and assess behavioral health, and social service factors impacting each patient to get a fuller picture of social determinants of hhealth needs and assess behavioral health, and social service factors impacting each patient to get a fuller picture of social determinants of hhealth, and social service factors impacting each patient to get a fuller picture of social determinants of healthhealth.

The Healthcare Reform Law, including The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and The Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, could have a material adverse effect on Humana's results of operations, including restricting revenue, enrollment and premium growth in certain products and market segments, restricting the company's ability to expand into new markets, increasing the company's medical and operating costs by, among other things, requiring a minimum benefit ratio on insured products, lowering the company's Medicare payment rates and increasing the company's expenses associated with a non-deductible health insurance industry fee and other assessments; the company's financial position, including the company's ability to maintain the value of its goodwill; and the company's cash flows.

Then because that emergency department doesn't know that person — they don't have a health record on that patient — they end up with a drug interaction and that creates another complication and they go back again and the cycle kind of repeats itself.»

On the heels of rival diabetes drug maker Novo Nordisk's announcement that it will limit branded drug price hikes to the single digits going forward, U.S. pharma giant Eli Lilly announced Tuesday that it is partnering with benefits manager Express Scripts and a mobile health platform hosted by Blink Health to slash patients» insulin health platform hosted by Blink Health to slash patients» insulin Health to slash patients» insulin costs.

More health plans and employers are signing up with pharmacy benefit managers like CVS Health (cvs) and Express Scripts (esrx), which control the list of drugs those insurance plans will cover, increasingly restricting patients from taking unreasonably high - priced health plans and employers are signing up with pharmacy benefit managers like CVS Health (cvs) and Express Scripts (esrx), which control the list of drugs those insurance plans will cover, increasingly restricting patients from taking unreasonably high - priced Health (cvs) and Express Scripts (esrx), which control the list of drugs those insurance plans will cover, increasingly restricting patients from taking unreasonably high - priced drugs.

The U.S. health care system faces ever - growing costs, and a good portion of that is devoted to caring for patients with chronic health conditions like diabetes, obesity, and heart disease.

«They want to take care of patients, but they are dealing more with bureaucracy and administrative stuff instead of actually providing good health care, so we need to fix that.»

Other ventures that promise to help patients stick to their pill taking include GreatCall, which makes a reminder app; MedMinder and Vitality, both of which make «smart» pillboxes; and Proteus Digital Health, which makes tiny ingestible sensors that patients swallow with their meds to track pill consumption.

In Canada — an environment with radically different processes and supports for dependent patients — the supply of such tools is nowhere close to meeting the surging demand, signalling that caregiver - focused technology may be the greatest untapped niche in health - care tech north of the border.

This involves the adoption of digital health technology to increase engagement with patients to improve care and medication adherence.

Ideally, patients, nurses, and doctors should be able to have an open conversation about treatment, with the goal of landing on the best health outcome possible.

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Then there's Proteus Digital Health's ingestible sensor, which — with a technology worthy of an episode of Black Mirror — helps patients (and, if they want, their doctors and family members) keep tabs on whether or not they're taking their meds.

But let's consider two major positives: First, with both patients and stakeholders investing in our healthcare system, we're all on the same team: We all want to see more positive outcomes for our loved ones and improvements in the health of our nation, both literally and financially.

Insurers have been striking deals with pharma companies that will land them discounts on pricey drugs if those treatments don't demonstrably improve patients» health outcomes; hospitals are penalized if they have high rates of patient readmissions.

To see what the new balance of power will look like in the coming years — and what it looks like right now — Fortune interviewed more than three dozen executives at companies across the health care continuum, along with entrepreneurs, doctors, patients, and other experts.

THE PATIENT AS INNOVATOR With Deborah Brooks of The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research; Kathy Giusti of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation & Consortium; Sean Lane of Crosschx; Claudia Williams of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Rik Kirkland, of McKinsey & Co. — Report by Kia Kokalitcheva — Video: Patients Should Get Access to Their Health Data

Endeavour managing director Garry Garside said the company was established to provide health care practitioners with equity participation at a seed level as opposed to outright business acquisition and would secure improved patient care through better integration of services.

«The use of the medicines in lethal injections runs counter to the manufacturers» mission to save and enhance patients» lives, and carries with it not only a public - health risk, but also reputational, fiscal and legal risks,» wrote the companies in a friend of the court filing.

Early responses from the survey suggest that 46 percent of employers would take steps to cut costs with new strategies such as high - deductible health plans - which shift the burden of initial medical costs to patients, but have lower monthly premiums.

«We're excited to partner with Hitch Health, an organization focused on creating and delivering health solutions that remove barriers for patients in underserved communities, in a collaboration that marries our unique API solution with their innovative technology to make it easier for people to get to and from their healthcare appointments,» said Gyre Renwick, VP of Lyft BusHealth, an organization focused on creating and delivering health solutions that remove barriers for patients in underserved communities, in a collaboration that marries our unique API solution with their innovative technology to make it easier for people to get to and from their healthcare appointments,» said Gyre Renwick, VP of Lyft Bushealth solutions that remove barriers for patients in underserved communities, in a collaboration that marries our unique API solution with their innovative technology to make it easier for people to get to and from their healthcare appointments,» said Gyre Renwick, VP of Lyft Business.

Once patients are familiar with the general idea of digital - service provision, organizations can begin offering more complex, high - value services, such as integrated - care companion apps or mobile health records.

As a member of the Centura Health Network, Parker Adventist Hospital is a full service hospital with philosophy steeped in patient - care.

«Clinicoin is an example of the continuous innovation we've seen with Mosio throughout our long relationship with them,» explained David Nichols, founder and COO of CareWire, a mobile patient engagement company that serves hospital and health systems.

This is fostered by an environment of continuous learning and teamwork, which in turn allows us to work with our patients to achieve exceptional health outcomes.

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In addition, many health providers are seeing patients with anxiety, fearful of the coming hurricane season and the additional challenges it might bring.

So far, few patients have received the new drugs, as commercial health plans and Medicare wrestle with how to cover the treatment

The emergence of genetics - based medicines is pushing the cost of treating certain diseases to new levels, forcing hospitals and health insurers to reckon with how to...

The QoC Health platform is a cloud - based digital spine to connect patients with circles of care and support.

Commonwealth Care Alliance, Libertana Home Health and Northwell Health are pioneering the use of ambient listening voice assistants in healthcare, and they all have so far achieved success with the technology as measured by patient satisfaction.

Theoretically, the job of PBMs is to negotiate drug prices with manufacturers and pass on the savings to health insurance companies and patients, keeping a return for themselves.