Sentences with phrase «health patients who»

«I feel lethargic when I sit all day,» said Gerald Alexander, an 82 - year - old retired social service worker among the 25 Group Health patients who participated in the Take Active Breaks from Sitting (TABS) pilot study.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats have hit out at Labour Ministers for neglecting thousands of mental health patients who won't benefit from changes to waiting time targets.

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Health care fraud is one of the most devastating financial crimes, siphoning billions of dollars from insurance companies and patients who spend a staggering 2.5 trillion dollars each year on healthHealth care fraud is one of the most devastating financial crimes, siphoning billions of dollars from insurance companies and patients who spend a staggering 2.5 trillion dollars each year on healthhealth care.

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Cancer patients, especially those on chemotherapy, can really benefit from a personal chef who knows how to make food that's especially appealing when chemotherapy drugs make food unappealing but when it is important to maintain nutrition for strength and the best health possible.

The country's ageing population is creating lots of demand in healthcare, including for those who dispense medication and monitor patient health

The Ebola infection rate and death toll have been particularly high among health workers, who are exposed to hundreds of highly infectious patients who can pass the virus on through body fluids such as blood and excrement.

Research has shown that medical patients who develop emotional health problems cost more to treat and respond less well to treatment; as a result, says Ahern, «it behooves the medical system to do a better job in detection and treatment of behavioral health because it drives outcomes and drives the costs.»

It's the biggest health reform legislation passed by Congress since Obamacare and has galvanized a similarly motley crew of industries and lobbying outfits — including big pharma (the legislation's most ardent proponent), patient advocacy groups, mental health organizations, and medical researchers — who fought for its passage over the last three years.

Kaiser avoids this trap by delivering care to patients through teams of providers (doctors, nurses, nutritionists, etc.) and physicians --» who quarterback this care,» Tyson says — get a flat salary, receiving end - of - year bonus payments if their patients achieve better health.

But they've been hampered by somewhat skeptical physicians who still aren't sure that the drugs are worth their price (their topline costs are around $ 14,000 per treatment course); part of the problem is that it's unclear whether or not those dramatic cholesterol reductions actually translate into broader health outcomes like a reduced risk of stroke or heart attack in heart disease patients.

Most people who sell such products, and most health practitioners (homeopaths, naturopaths, therapeutic touch practitioners, and so on) surely do what they do out of a genuine belief that they're helping their patients.

The same outside adviser, who was unidentified in Tuesday's release, advised that a package of assistance programs to patients would: «force reporters to focus on the byzantine nature of drug pricing and health care and ensure the patient message gets out... specifically tie profits from Daraprim to the research and development of a new and more effective treatment for Daraprim patients.

Fever Smart works with consumers, hospitals, and health care providers to support patients who need continuous temperature monitoring.

Some health care providers and patients who spoke with the Journal were also asked by the company to sign papers saying their statements had been mischaracterized — before the Journal even published its story.

The study, by Yusuke Tsugawa and colleagues at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, and other institutions, examined the record of a large random sample of Medicare patients, 65 years or older, who were hospitalized from January 2011 to December 2014.

Glickman: A common pivot we see is around health care: Students want to do something for patients, and as they develop their idea, they realize that it's the insurance companies that pay for this service, so they need to pivot one part of the business by thinking about the needs of who's paying.

Mylan's (myl) EpiPen's price has ballooned about 400 % since 2008, rising from about a $ 100 list price to $ 500 today (many patients are offered a $ 100 coupon for the injecting device, but it's often not enough to cover costs for American families, especially those who have health insurance with high deductibles).

Newell, who had been running a patient - monitoring company, understood that mobile technology was going to change the way health care was delivered, but was having trouble raising money for a company that would capitalize on that.

Until now, there was no reimbursable way for pre-diabetic patients to receive care, said Mike Payne, head of medical affairs at Omada Health, the nation's largest federally recognized provider of diabetes prevention programs in the U.S. Medicare has always reimbursed providers to screen for diabetes and to treat those who have the disease, but there wasn't a way for providers to be reimbursed to stop that progression all together.

Steven Corwin, who heads up New York - Presbyterian's $ 7 billion - in - revenue per year health system, says that a dramatic reversal of Obamacare's insurance expansion would spell trouble for hospitals by bloating the ranks of uninsured patients.

CEO Joe Jimenez, who recently announced that he would retire next year, is also cochair for a global «value - based pricing» project that wants to figure out how to best match health care costs with patient outcomes.

Every health care company seeks to scale the best technology and develop profitable ways to cover the massive cost of research and development, investors are looking for actionable intelligence on who's breaking through, and patients are hungry for affordable and effective care.

Sinha, who specializes in health and wellness issues with a special interest in Asian, and in particular Indian, patients, started the Care - A-Van in 2013 after he noticed some alarming trends.

Time is one of the most daunting hurdles for health care professionals rushing emergency treatment to a heart attack patient who isn't near a hospital.

But there are way too many people in the Silicon Valley echo chamber who have never touched hands on a patient and don't understand how hard digital health is.»

To illustrate the issue, over the past 20 years, the cost of a new drug per year of a patient's life has risen from $ 50,000 to $ 250,000 after adjusting for inflation, according to Peter Bach, director of the Center for Health Policy and Outcomes at Memorial Sloan Kettering, who also spoke at the conference.

These days, Brown primarily targets health and wellness providers, who use the software to show patients the benefits of a healthier lifestyle, but she continues to sign up police forces in the United States, Poland, Ecuador and Turkey.

PocketRx is an app to help patients manage their prescriptions, and is sold to pharmacy chains including Denver Health Pharmacy, USave Pharmacy, and Owen's Healthcare, who in turn offer the app to their customers.

In a statement, Beaumont Health's Paul E. LaCasse said, «This is precisely what we needed to improve access to medical care at Beaumont's facilities for our patients who are elderly, in wheelchairs or have mobility challenges.»

Nicole Smith, who oversees certifications and wavers to dispense methadone at the national Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, or SAMHSA, told me over the phone that all methadone programs are required to have emergency contact services in place to reach patients, like the text message I received during the Colorado flood.

We were was a single, 104 - bed psychiatric hospital looking for an investment partner who believed in our model to deliver specialty behavioral health programs to patients in under - served markets.

At Broward Health North, we received eight patients and one suspect,» said Dr. Evan Boyar, who works at Broward Health North's Emergency Services Department.

Remedy is improving consumer health engagement and actions through the development of authentic communities of health information seekers who can interact and learn from relatable physician, pharmacist, public health and patient experts.

At other points in the hour - long program, Ryan discussed Republican plans for repealing and replacing President Obama's health - care law with a cancer patient who credits the law with saving his life.

«Patients and health care providers are the ones who will suffer most if the B.C. Liberal government refuses to include them in this review process.

In January 2009, then - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced the settlement of an investigation into the method used by certain health insurers to determine reimbursements for patients who received care from out - of - network providers.

(A case in point is that of a publicly supported, church - related hospital which is the only hospital in town and which refuses to permit certain medically accepted surgical procedures — such as abortion or tubal ligation — which are objectionable to the church but not to the patients of other faiths or no faith who depend upon that hospital for health care, and whose tax dollars support it.)

... [US officials] accuse foreign governments of keeping those prices artificially and unduly low within their own health systems, thereby beggaring U.S. patients, who now fund the bulk of U.S. pharmaceutical R&D.»

At several of our health centers, we help patients who want to donate tissue for scientific research, and we do this just like every other high - quality health care provider does — with full, appropriate consent from patients and under the highest ethical and legal standards.

Already a movement is under way to improve end - of - life care by educating health - care providers to respond better to the needs of dying patients, by creating new care settings or improving existing ones, by seeking changes in methods of paying for appropriate care, by educating the public through conferences, town meetings, television programming, and even Web sites (see www.careproject.net), by providing adequate relief of pain, by withholding or withdrawing treatments that only prolong dying, by keeping company with those who are lonely, and by being a resource of meaning and hope for those tempted to despair.

My prayer is that you will leave the health care profession and leave it to those who care about our patients.

NARTH is an association of some 200 therapists, psychoanalysts, social workers, counselors, and other mental health professionals who contend, on the basis of homosexual patients with whom they work, that 25 to 30 percent are completely «cured» and many more significantly benefit from therapy.

In the Far West, a mental health center has established a panel of fifty qualified community professionals who accept patients for individual and group psychotherapy after screening and evaluation at the mental health center The center pays a small fee to the panel members and retains responsibility for the patient's total treatment program.

Unfortunately, this type of scenario is all too common among patients who suffer mental health issues.

Borrowing from the new secular ethic of «compassionate death,» even the Catholic Health Association now publishes articles encouraging «futility policies» for hospital ethics committees that enable them to force the withdrawal of treatment from patients or families who do not make the «right» choice.

In a decision that should chill the blood of everyone who believes in religious freedom, the court stated: «That the new rules prohibit all improper reasons for refusal to dispense medication... suggests that the purpose of the new rules was not to eliminate religious objections to delivery of lawful medicines but to eliminate all objections that do not ensure patient health, safety, and access to medication.

In 2006, scientists evaluated the effects of vitamin D on the mental health of 80 elderly patients and found those with the lowest levels of vitamin D were 11 times more prone to be depressed than those who received healthy doses.

I will typically use either an Elimination and Cyclic Ketogenic styles of eating with my patients who are facing chronic health challenges and these diets strictly call for the absence of processed sugars.

Many natural health doctors who understand the health benefits of coconut will recommend a tablespoon of coconut oil every 2 - 3 hours for their very sick patients.