Sentences with phrase «patient access to care»

They highlighted how provider reimbursement rates drive patient access to care.

At CVS Health, we are committed to increasing patient access to care, lowering costs and improving the quality of care.

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In one case, a personal care provider in Vermont submitted bogus claims for 456 hours of service to an elderly man and then secretly split the payments with the patient's wife in return for access to her husband's prescription pain killers.

The presentation aims to provide the audience a real - life example of not only how 3D printing innovation in healthcare improves patient care, but also the many challenges faced by both the patients and companies to access and implement these innovations.

It's a way to keep up with demand for care — virtual appointments save time — and to provide greater access to services, particularly for patients that may be hundreds of miles away from the closest hospital.

Velasquez cites workers in an assisted living facility tasked with caring for patients, a job in close proximity to medical records that can be accessed by a few keyboard taps.

«Although I was previously aware of the many social circumstances affecting my patients» access to care and the circumstances contributing to their overall health,» writes Jessica K. Willett, a California physician, «I'm now able to relate to it on a more personal level.

Walsh says there are times when such a patient needs immediate access to service, but under the current health care system doctors aren't organized to deliver that care 24 hours a day.

It comes at a time when health insurers and hospitals are increasingly looking to technology to help boost patient satisfaction, as consumers and employers are pressing the industry to cut costs and make it easier to access care.

«It will allow us to expand and optimize our retail pharmacy network in key markets in the U.S., including the Northeast, and provide customers and patients with greater access to convenient, affordable care,» Pessina said in a statement.

Patients also should have easier access to their records and health data once they have received care.

Without access to primary care, these patients will often end up in emergency rooms with urgent concerns, which can be tens of thousands of dollars in costs for their employers.

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.»

Mirroring the value - based model to incentivize pharmacies to help patients adhere to prescription regimens, the new network has the potential to control costs and improve the quality of care through increased access and convenience.

He saw firsthand how the lack of follow - up, proper access to information, and the absence of comprehensive care prevented patients from improving their health.

Commonwealth Care Alliance is using Alexa technology, but the organization's plan is to ultimately access all available voice assistants to create individualized care environments for its members and patieCare Alliance is using Alexa technology, but the organization's plan is to ultimately access all available voice assistants to create individualized care environments for its members and patiecare environments for its members and patients.

«Donald Trump's administration is handing out permission slips for hospitals and providers to deny individuals, including women and LGBT patients, access to a full range of health services including life saving emergency care.

As it stands NAC operates as a health - care company — consulting with patients, and improving access to prescription medical marijuana.

As Gawande notes, a study conducted by Aetna Insurance permitting «concurrent care» — having access to both hospice and life - extending treatments — saw hospice participation rise from 26 to 70 percent of eligible patients.

Should the «worse than death» meme ever be accepted by society, or adopted into the standard - of - care guidelines established by healthcare technocrats, or implemented under Obamacare cost / benefit insurance coverage guidelines, then expanding access to assisted suicide to — and even rationing the healthcare of — such patients is an imminent possibility.

More than 21.5 million AIDS patients require clinical care to access life - saving anti-retroviral medications.

Access to health care also includes access to preventative medicine which involves providing information to patients about nutrition, how to develop healthy eating habits, how to exercise properly and how often, how to break unhealthy habits like smoking,Access to health care also includes access to preventative medicine which involves providing information to patients about nutrition, how to develop healthy eating habits, how to exercise properly and how often, how to break unhealthy habits like smoking,access to preventative medicine which involves providing information to patients about nutrition, how to develop healthy eating habits, how to exercise properly and how often, how to break unhealthy habits like smoking, etc..

In keeping with a commitment to patient care, healthcare providers have access to our wound, ostomy and continence (WOC) nurses.

The Tufts Medical Cener program was one of the first in the U.S. to bring a team of care providers under one room to give patients access to multiple specialists, all in one location.

The MOR index is a reliable, patient - informed quality and safety indicator that can be applied across jurisdictions to assess the nature of provider - patient relationships, and access to person - centered care.

They continue to work together in Task Forces on strategic initiatives that will increase access to safe, respectful, affordable maternity care; improve inter-professional education; and enable patient - responsive and population - specific research on maternal choice, experience and outcomes related to birth place.

McKesson Patient Care Solutions Inc. (MPCS), headquartered near Pittsburgh, Pa., provides access to medical supplies, insurance payers, distribution services and technology to better serve our customers.

The utilization of an integrated EHR will allow caregivers across the entire Mercy system immediate access to relevant and important patient medical history and information, helping to ensure continuity and the highest levels of care.

The joint venture will provide patients in Missouri, Oklahoma and Arkansas with greater access to innovative urgent care through state - of - the - art technology and unique patient access tools — wherever and whenever they need it the most.

It's interesting, too, that the absolute risk for patients treated by OBs doesn't seem to change by parity or other subgroup, which implies to me that overall, babies delivered in the hospital in the US have access to the best care possible when it comes to resuscitation.

MyPatients is a tool for referring providers that gives you access to information about your patient's care.

Collaboration between all levels of care is key to patients accessing the appropriate obstetrical services and to support women who desire VBAC.

He also says 98 percent of patients in the system have access to a primary care physician and a specialist.

«The State Department of Health will continue to work with other area health care providers in the Bronx as well as the insurance plans that cover Soundview patients to ensure that those individuals will have ready access to quality health care.»

Collectively, these efforts will strengthen the capacity of providers to address the mental health concerns of their pregnant and postpartum patients, so that women at risk or already suffering from maternal depression will have better health and access to care.

The Compassionate Access, Research Expansion and Respect State Act, as it's called, «would finally allow families and patients, including our veterans in 40 states that have some form of legalized medical marijuana, to access the basic care that they need without fear of prosecution,» GillibrandAccess, Research Expansion and Respect State Act, as it's called, «would finally allow families and patients, including our veterans in 40 states that have some form of legalized medical marijuana, to access the basic care that they need without fear of prosecution,» Gillibrandaccess the basic care that they need without fear of prosecution,» Gillibrand said.

Anyone responsible for caring for patients should have access to training and guidance, which can be provided by antimicrobial pharmacists.

But a key part of the reforms, the NHS care records scheme aimed at providing access to patients» medical records across the health service, is running two years late, while the take - up of the choose and book system is slower than predicted.

«Crystal Run Health Plans continues to be committed to providing access to high quality healthcare and the triple aim — improving patient care, improving health and reducing cost for to the people and business of the Hudson Valley,» Steve Zeng, executive director of Crystal Run, said in an email.

A Department of Health spokesman said it was «committed to the principle of ensuring that NHS patients have access to the spiritual care that they want, whatever faith or belief system they follow».

Freedom of Information requests have shown that most NHS trusts at best only cursorily audit the treatment of foreign nationals not entitled to automatic free healthcare, and GP practices do not record this information at all, despite in many other countries access to primary care having a nominal charge for all patients, including British visitors.

«That this House opposes the Government's plans to impose a polyclinic, or GP - led health centre, in every primary care trust; regrets that this could result in the closure of up to 1,700 GP surgeries; is concerned that the imposition of polyclinics against the will of patients and GPs could be detrimental to standards of care, particularly for the elderly and vulnerable, by breaking the vital GP / patient link; further regrets that these plans are being imposed without consultation; is alarmed at the prospective loss of patient access to local GP services at a time when care closer to home should be strengthened; believes that the Government's plans would jeopardise the independence and commissioning capability of general practice in the future; supports the strengthening of access to diagnostic and therapeutic services without undermining the structure of GP services; and calls on the Government to reconsider its plans for polyclinics.

They and GPs are concerned that the Government's top - down, one - size - fits - all imposition of polyclinics in London and in each primary care trust across the country will reduce access to their GP services and undermine the GP - patient relationship, which is at the heart of the successful delivery of health care.

The progressive centralisation of services, the progressive undermining of access to care, the progressive undermining of the ability of clinicians across the NHS to determine what is best for their patients — those are the tragic consequences of the Government's failure to negotiate the GP contract successfully.

Nearly one in five participating doctors (17 %) cited cuts as their main concern with regards to their profession, with many stating that they feel hampered by the Health Minister's reforms as patients struggle to access the basic level of care they deserve.

Last June, Faso voted in favor of the cynically dubbed Protecting Access to Care Act of 2017, a bill that sides with insurers, against the rights of patients who have been injured by medical malpractice.

And during 2008 we will bring forward a patients» prospectus that sets out how we will extend to all 15 million patients with a chronic or long - term condition access to a choice of «active patient» or «care at home» options — clinically appropriate to them and supported by the NHS.

The programme is intended to generate substantial benefits for patients and the NHS, increasing NHS staff's ability to access information stored in the care records system.

Also not included in the announcement are patients waiting to access psychological therapies in secondary care.

They say the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, with no replacement, will leave many of their patients unable to afford insurance and access to cCare Act, with no replacement, will leave many of their patients unable to afford insurance and access to carecare.