Sentences with phrase «of doctors and their patients»

That it would be really difficult to get a critical share of doctors and patients to use us fast enough to make this a viable business.

Von Weizsäcker expands this relationship of doctor and patient into an all - embracing distinction between objective and «inclusive» («umfassender») therapy.

Since then I've met more of their team and appreciate their mission to health education of both doctors and patients.

«In order to ensure the safety of patients, further research is still vital to ensure that our findings can be repeated with different groups of doctors and patients.

Together with our progress, the fact that the field is generally maturing means that RNAi drugs are close to becoming a powerful genetic medicine modality at the disposal of doctors and patients.

Each individual's unique path to greater health is best determined through the mutual work of the doctor and the patient.

It puts the doctor - patient relationship back into the hands of doctors and patients, and out of the hands of insurance and government.

We create the best possible experience for our patients through a warm, personal, efficient service delivered through our team of doctors and patient care advisors.

The 21 Day Purification Program as been utilized by hundreds of doctors and patients, for over 20 years, and it is based on 20 years of clinical experience and scientific research.

Our reviewer writes, «Dr. Holt never settles for easy answers, and the questions he poses — reflecting the frequent uncertainties of doctors and patients alike — will leave readers thinking long after the final page is turned.»

Perhaps one of the most important position in a medical facility, a patient scheduler is an individual who is responsible for creating a parity between the calendars of doctors and patients, to determine suitable timings for appointments.

Anticipated the needs of the doctor and patient by appropriately preparing exam and treatment rooms.

Not exact matches

«This short book has so many layers of meaning and so many interesting juxtapositions,» Gates writes, including «life and death, patient and doctor, son and father, work and family, faith and reason.»

Palmer reached out to a wide range of pediatricians to find out how they feel about these parents, and he was surprised to encounter mostly sadness rather than anger on the part of these doctors, who often feel like they've let their patients down by not convincing them to vaccinate.

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.

The Silicon Valley startup's «smart pill» platform, Discover, helps doctors track patients» biometrics — and whether or not they're sticking to a drug protocol — with the help of ingestible (and on - the - body) sensors that communicate with a smartphone app.

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.

Doctors can snap pictures of their patients and upload them to FDNA's mobile app, which then spits out a list of disorders they might have by analyzing telltale facial features associated with those conditions (the tech is not a diagnostic tool, but rather a way to narrow down the list of possible genetic suspects).

«The client fills it out with their doctor, and when the doctor signs it, it becomes a doctor's standing order,» she said — it becomes part of the patient's medical record, and medical professionals are bound to follow it.

Doctors don't come cheap, and the company will have to employ many of them to remain as patient - friendly as it intends: The goal, Cape says, is to never have wait times of more than 30 seconds.

On the agenda for discussion: whether the FDA should implement a mandatory education program on opioid prescription for doctors, and whether the agency should limit the number of opioid doses a patient is prescribed.

«We understand that patients, doctors and business partners have been disturbed by the reports of improper behaviour at Philidor, just as we have been,» CEO Michael Pearson said in a news release Friday.

Patients are then routed to the correct kind of doctor and told how much a consultation will cost.

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.

FITBIT DATA AIDS RESEARCHERS IN UNDERSTANDING SURGERY RECOVERY: Fitbit data can help researchers and doctors predict the risk of 30 - and 60 - day readmission after surgery for cancer patients, according to a study published in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine.

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.

«We have an old promotional video showing a doctor lugging a massive cart of video equipment into a patient's room and getting down on the floor to plug it in while a voiceover describes how easy it is to use,» says Klein.

Doctors and surgeons could have patients» medical information in front of them at all times and easily monitor vitals.

Roberts called the current system «sort of untenable» — with doctors spending much of their time with patients entering things into the EHR and even more time at night.

«Well over 80 percent of our post-op patients now see their surgeon every day via... an app on the iPhone, where they can show the wound and talk to the doctor,» says Roizen.

Frustrated with her doctors and the manufacturer of her pacemaker, Moe has turned her life's work into finding out more on behalf of all patients.

The CDC did not take the recommendations of protocols in preparedness and equipment from Doctors Without Borders (who have been caring for Ebola patients in Africa).

Rather than asking patients to blindly provide doctors and the health system a bunch of data that is then used to deduce their needs, patients and providers could work together to create an action plan.

London - based Babylon Health, which has raised a total of $ 85 million, started as a telemedicine company, enabling doctors to make diagnoses via video and allowing patients to rate the quality of each interaction.

Ashish Jha, the senior author of the JAMA Internal Medicine paper, points out in a blog post that there are reasons why women doctors might well deliver better care, citing research to suggest that they might adhere more closely to established clinical practice guidelines and that patients often report better personal experiences (something that ultimately might lead to better outcomes).

«In India, there are programs that send doctors into villages and slums, but there are a lot of patients and only so many ophthalmologists.»

While it's intriguing that data mining of this type could potentially help doctors and patients diagnose certain conditions earlier, it's also kind of creepy.

But if doctors, patients — and maybe most important, insurers — decide that InVivo's device is worth the proposed price of $ 100,000, annual sales could hit the billion - dollar mark.

Speaking of Novartis — the company's experimental CTL019, which is expected to be the first approved drug in a revolutionary new cancer treatment space that turns the body's own immune cells into cancer - killers, is already facing some apprehension from doctors and patient groups who are worried about its eventual pricing.

Instead of giving a cancer patient a cocktail of 15 drugs as is done now, doctors could print 15 tumours from a biopsy and determine which one is most effective before issuing a prescription to the patient.

There is also a huge trend toward healthcare delivery and the utilization of labor forces, such as mobilizing healthcare and creating more communication for patients and doctors.

Doctors were forced to choose which patients received the smaller supply of Leucovorin and which would be given a less effective but more costly treatment.

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.

Groups of new employees (or a new client's medical - office staff) take turns playing doctor or patient or receptionist and responding to various crises that have been known to occur in a medical - office setting.

At Inova, that kind of speed has been enabling doctors to quickly diagnose genetic diseases in newborns, and makes it easier for pharmacists to prescribe medications that match a patient's genetic makeup.

When Jedd Wolchok, a cancer doctor and immunologist leading a Yervoy trial at Memorial Sloan Kettering, examined a melanoma patient's scan 12 weeks after he'd received his course of treatment, the results were utterly disappointing — just like those of any other metastatic patient in the final throes of the disease: The tumors had gotten bigger, and there were more of them.

Mobile apps, like UpToDate and Isabel, are also making it possible to decrease the amount of time it takes a doctor to give a patient a sound diagnosis.

The software has also won fans within big hospital systems, where doctors and nurses use its visualizations to spot the kinds of problems that can worsen patients» health problems and drive up costs.

The case was yet more evidence that both the clinical trial doctors and the drug's developers would have to be more patient in assessing this new type of therapy.

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.