Sentences with phrase «much patient health»

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It's much more akin to a WebMD, where there's all this information about health care, and the patient and the patient's family can read it, but then they still go to the doctor and the doctor helps them interpret that information.

Under the model of such a «patient - centered medical home,» for instance, health care providers could give people practical (and personally tailored) advice on the «next best action» they may be able to take in order to improve their health, perhaps by improving their diet or boosting how much exercise they get.

The biggest one to date for a biosimilar product in the U.S. — the treatments have only been around for a handful of years in America despite widespread and long - standing availability in Europe and other regions — Renflexis may ultimately not do much to curb health care and patient spending, as the Wall Street Journal «s Charley Grant points out in an astute note.

New York, Wall Street Journal — Genomic Health Inc. has struck a deal to commercialize a new blood test that can help advanced prostate cancer patients decide whether to try costly new - generation drugs or rely on much cheaper traditional chemotherapy to improve their chances for survival.

Health 2.0 Europe showcased and explored the latest innovations in health care in areas including: patient - provider communication, consumer health, genomics, data analytics, corporate wellness and so muchHealth 2.0 Europe showcased and explored the latest innovations in health care in areas including: patient - provider communication, consumer health, genomics, data analytics, corporate wellness and so muchhealth care in areas including: patient - provider communication, consumer health, genomics, data analytics, corporate wellness and so muchhealth, genomics, data analytics, corporate wellness and so much more.

It is true that our mental health facilities have pretty much disappeared in the shadow of «drug management of illness» which requires patient compliance when an ill person is not equipped to comply.

When he attempted to create a general psychology of personality, based on his findings from studying neurotic patients, he did not see that health is much more than the absence of gross pathology.

I was helped in this by a couple of phone calls; one from a very eloquent certified nurse midwife at OHSU, the Oregon Health and Sciences University, who had tried to transfer a patient to one of our hospitals during labor and received so much flak and criticism and expletives over the phone and there was so much overt hostility that she wound up not pursuing that transfer, which would have been a very important transfer.

Imagine how much patient satisfaction would increase if the doula were recognized by the hospital as a professional support person, someone who compliments the professional medical staff charged with caring for the health of the pregnant person and their baby.

«It actually doesn't happen that much if you give your patients good instruction about when to come in,» said Lu, who is an associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and public health at the University of California Los Angeles.

We can do much more to put patients at the centre of the health service.

Patient choice and control are at the heart of what we believe in and the NHS has been slow in giving patients real clout, despite the fact that many people with chronic conditions know as much about their health as their doctors do.

Let me point to 10 things that I sketched out this morning: too much money spent on administration and bureaucracy and not enough on front - line patient care; too little patient - centric information to inform decision making; too little innovation; too little clinical input into decision making; too much inertia and hostility to reform, as we have seen today; too much process - driven target culture distorting clinical decision making; falling productivity; poor outcomes across a range of clinical indicators; too often, weak commissioning of servicing; and widening health inequalities in the past 10 years, in addition to the scandals that occurred in Staffordshire and Kent.

Patients 65 and older who have ambulatory surgery are much more likely to be readmitted to the hospital within 30 days than younger patients, regardless of their health before surgery, reports a new, large national Northwestern MedicinPatients 65 and older who have ambulatory surgery are much more likely to be readmitted to the hospital within 30 days than younger patients, regardless of their health before surgery, reports a new, large national Northwestern Medicinpatients, regardless of their health before surgery, reports a new, large national Northwestern Medicine study.

«HIE helps emergency physicians — who usually do not have much information about their patients — access patient health information from multiple sources, which is essential for critical, time - sensitive decisions,» said co-author Jeffrey Nielson, MD, MS of Summa Akron City Hospital in Akron, Ohio.

«Much of the decisions that physicians and patients make has shifted from pen and paper to digital environments such as the electronic health record and patient portals,» Patel said.

«Eight of the 13 high - risk patients treated with the autograft system experienced much faster healing of their chronic wounds,» said Litt, who also serves as medical director of MU Health Care's burn and wound program.

In the military, health professionals are much more aware of their social mission as purveyors of public health than they are normally as civilians treating individual patients, Williams - Jones added.

Going forward, the development of a reliable diagnostic kit is much needed to enable hospital, clinic, and public health workers to confirm that patients seeking care are either infected or free of the virus; and while an effective vaccine is being tested, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration should screen existing antiviral medicines to determine if any can protect people from contracting the virus, Song said.

Getting down to a BMI under 30 also brought patients much better odds of escaping weight - related health risks.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — How much should scientists tell patients about the chemicals discovered in their bodies if they don't know what the levels mean for their health?

If so, says Grover Bagby, a hematologist who directs the Oregon Cancer Center at the Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, further work to decipher the protein's exact function could shed light on how to treat a much larger population of patients with leukemia, certain other forms of cancer, and aplastic anemia.

What people may not know about Sacks, however, is that the 74 - year - old neurologist has spent much of his career regularly treating patients in mental - health facilities around New York City.

Community health center patients tend to be uninsured or underinsured and they are typically much poorer than uninsured patients generally.

Unlikely overdose Unlike drugs such as painkillers, which come with a risk of death if people take too much, patients who «overdose» on the marijuana spray would be at little risk for acute health problems, Haney said.

«There has been tremendous growth in R&D infrastructure in China in recent years, much of it financed from government sources,» says Rezaie, who is a coauthor of a 2008 study titled «Chinese Health Biotech and the Billion - Patient Market.»

He said: «Given that a year's course of low - dose MTX costs around # 30, the potential to repurpose MTX could provide thousands of patients with a much needed treatment option and also generate substantial savings for health care systems.

You may also access much of your health information using the org patient portal.

A patient's ability to recover may have as much to do with his state of mind as the health of his heart, according to a long - term study of heart disease and depression at the University of California, San Francisco.

A common question I get from my patients at Parsley Health is «How much alcohol is too much alcohol?»

3:20 — Why as a doctor, he doesn't want to see his patients all the time 4:30 — The frustration that doctors face 5:20 — Why stress can be good and why we need it 5:45 — The physiological effects of too much stress 6:30 — How stress impacts fertility and memory 6:55 — The continued effects of stress on the body 7:50 — How to become more resilient to stress and how stress is like a light switch 8:28 — How to turn stress on and off 9:02 — Tips to Practically reduce stress (Book: The Relaxation Revolution) 9:45 — What is the relaxation response 10:20 — How to activate your relaxation response to deal with stress 12:45 — What happens when your body doesn't recognize stress 16:15 — What causes chronic pain 17:10 — Pain is all in the brain 17:45 — The biology of pain vs. the mental side of pain 20:00 — The core four for reducing stress and pain: Movement, Eating Right, Mindset, Avoiding Problems 24:00 — Understanding the mindset of doctors 28:00 — The frustration of the current medical system 32:00 — The shocking statistic on how a small percentage of the population is using 95 % of healthcare resources 35:00 — The seven questions you should know the answers to before you see your doctor 38:00 — Health advice Kevin wishes he had gotten earlier in life 41:15 — Kevin's recommended books and resources (and see below)

A collaborative approach that links doctors and other licensed clinicians with health coaches, nutritionists, and other allied providers can provide patients with a much higher level of care and support in the areas that will make the biggest difference when it comes to making successful diet, lifestyle, and behavioral changes.

But until then, I can only pray that more doctors read Chapter 3 in Mind Over Medicine and realize how much their behavior affects not just how patients feel, but their health outcomes.

At Parsley Health, I see so many patients that are driven to achieve as much as possible, as fast as possible, and it has us all reaching for dizzying heights of outward success, but at a cost.

Addressing the root causes of imbalance, by addressing the patient's unique set of environmental inputs and fundamental physiological processes, restores health — but involves much more than a prescription directed at the proximate cause, the symptoms associated with the chief complaint.

Their turnkey lifestyle change program for healthcare centers is a unique 12 - week program with patient education material, health assessment intake forms, power point presentations and much more.

Patients with Alzheimer's disease, Fragile X syndrome, Down syndrome, and autism are particularly susceptible to seizures, 12 and the focus of much research at the Waisman Center of Developmental Disabilities has been on the myriad ways drugs, diet and genetic manipulation can affect amyloid beta levels, seizure threshold and behavioral phenotypes.13 In an editorial entitled «Concocting the Right Diet for Brain Health» published December 2011 in Translational Medicine, Dr. Westmark expressed concern about the risks of soy: «The prevailing view is soy is healthy, but much remains to be learned regarding its effects on brain development and function.»

Early diagnosis and treatment are essential to restore patients to health and to prevent progression of the disease to late or chronic Lyme disease, which is much harder to treat.

In my experience, many patients who come to me with chronic health problems have spent TOO MUCH money on doctor's visits, tests, dietary supplements and special foods.

After much observation and measuring the body composition of my patients, along with consultation with some of the world's leading physicians and scientists in the field of neuroscience, I believe I have learned the answer to one of the most vexing health questions of the twenty first century.

«While we need to do some follow - up work, based on this finding, patients with type 2 might be able to make a simple change to lower their blood sugar throughout the day, decrease how much insulin they need to take, and potentially have a long - lasting, positive impact on their health.»

When you become a patient, you will learn in detail exactly what, how, how much, and when to eat in order to achieve your best health.

When Dr. Benjamin Frank treated his patients with sardines and other foods high in nucleic acids, they looked and felt much younger, improved their memory and concentration, and recovered from different health problems including depression and arthritis.

Worryingly, these patients» hearts appear to show a form of scarring, indicating that full recovery may take much longer, or indeed may not occur, with Health 27 Things You Really Need To Hear After Getting Your Heart Broken Because love is a cruel bitch sometimes.

There's not much that's subtle in Lumet's tirade against the greed of the medical profession and health - care system and patients who sue.

that the health of their patients is as much an issue of mental well being as it physical.

When it comes to treating the human body, doctors and nurses are fully aware that the health of their patients is as much an issue of mental well being as it physical.

These surgical procedures require as much knowledge about the patient's health prior to surgery as possible.

Your donation could lead patients and their families to a much awaited diagnosis and to receive the gift of health.

There are numerous studies indicating that patients with poor dental health have a much higher incidence of other health problems.