Sentences with phrase «patient health issues»
Caregivers reported lost days of work due to patient health issues (25.6 percent) or caregiver health issues (21.6 percent).
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Patients, particularly older ones, often fail to take their meds — it's a serious health issue.
Patients get referred to behavioral health specialists for issues like stress and sleep issues just like they might be referred to an orthopedic specialist for knee pain.
These trackers could soon give medical professionals a way to monitor their patients following a health issue and eventually, they could even allow healthy consumers to learn as soon as possible when problems arise.
Important factors that could cause our actual results and financial condition to differ materially from those indicated in the forward - looking statements include, among others, the following: our ability to successfully and profitably market our products and services; the acceptance of our products and services by patients and healthcare providers; our ability to meet demand for our products and services; the willingness of health insurance companies and other payers to cover Cologuard and adequately reimburse us for our performance of the Cologuard test; the amount and nature of competition from other cancer screening and diagnostic products and services; the effects of the adoption, modification or repeal of any healthcare reform law, rule, order, interpretation or policy; the effects of changes in pricing, coverage and reimbursement for our products and services, including without limitation as a result of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014; recommendations, guidelines and quality metrics issued by various organizations such as the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the American Cancer Society, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance regarding cancer screening or our products and services; our ability to successfully develop new products and services; our success establishing and maintaining collaborative, licensing and supplier arrangements; our ability to maintain regulatory approvals and comply with applicable regulations; and the other risks and uncertainties described in the Risk Factors and in Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations sections of our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and our subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10 - Q.
Doctors will be kept informed with how often and when their patients are taking their medicine and those with ongoing health issues will be able to have things such as blood pressure and sugar levels monitored remotely.
Certainly, dentists need to confirm the diagnosis of cavities and other issues and play an integral role in the health of their patients, but they are helped greatly by the 30 or 45 minutes that a dental hygienist spends assessing someone's oral hygiene.
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.
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.
Mental illness is one of the toughest health issues, and Ron Struthers, editor of Struthers Report, profiles a company that is using blockchain technology to improve patient record access.
Lybrate Inc. is striving to become the go - to digital platform for patients to discuss health - related issues and for doctors to...
The drug overdose epidemic has become one of the most concerning public health issues of recent time, and in an effort to stem the tide, moreg and more patients and doctors are turning to pot over pills.
Unfortunately, this type of scenario is all too common among patients who suffer mental health issues.
The improper use and sizing of these stockings and the deficiencies in patient education are important health care issues.»
Kendra's Law, a measure that requires mandatory mental health care for some patients, is one of those issues.
«We are pleased to continue to work with all parties to protect patients and ensure the safety and well - being of thousands of hospital workers and other health care professionals across the state,» the statement issued Wednesday afternoon read.
«Previous studies have also noted that the financial condition of the most troubled institutions is, to a large extent, a product of an inefficient expense structure, revenue challenges associated with a patient mix that approaches 90 percent public payers and charity care, and overwhelming liabilities (including debt issued long ago for physical plant improvements that, in some cases, are obsolete),» the health department said in its announcement.
The bill will go into effect immediately once signed, but registrant identification and licenses for the five companies that will be permitted to grow and distribute medical marijuana won't be issued for roughly 18 months while the Department of Health develops regulations, trains and certifies doctors and registers patients.
The Health Department singled out Upstate University Hospital as a «success story» in a report issued today on the rate of infections patients picked up across New York during 2014.
Dr Jokshan also listed issues that prompted the strike to include poor funding, equipping and staffing of hospitals and non-provision of the living environment for medical, health workers and patients.
«We welcome the recent findings from the Department of Health's summit in to this issue, and hope that its actions can be quickly implemented so that patients do not face unnecessary anxiety each time their prescription needs renewing.»
The inter-professional model of care will result in enhanced patient satisfaction, and improved health outcomes while increasing dental student awareness of urban health issues.»
These patients, the so - called super-utilizers, have behavioral and mental health issues, substance abuse problems, multiple chronic conditions, sometimes all of the above.
More than 66,000 health care professionals have run more than 7 million individual prescription checks on nearly three million separate patients since August 2013, according to a press release issued by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office.
Espada charged Cuomo's action will «issue a death penalty to 20,000 patients who depend on this health care.»
Among the items in the state's initial application that federal officials rejected as «unfundable» are capital investment, rent subsidies for high - needs patients with mental and physical health issues, regional planning grants, evaluation projects and information technology.
The Governor has designated eight hospitals statewide to treat potential patients with Ebola, the State Department of Health has issued a Commissioner's Order to all hospitals, diagnostic and treatment centers, and ambulance services in New York State, requiring that they follow protocols for identification, isolation and medical evaluation of patients requiring care.
By addressing these methodological issues, future work can help to identify the optimal strategy for evaluating patients» mental health prior to bariatric surgery.»
Mental health conditions, such as depression and binge eating disorder, are common among patients seeking and undergoing bariatric surgery, according to a study in the January 12 issue of JAMA.
According to a July 2012 study of 400 primary care patients (published by Miller and her colleagues in the popular family practice journal Annals of Family Medicine), 22 percent of individuals with chronic health issues suffer from some degree of chemical intolerance.
Dr Holmes» previous research with people who had received treatment for an ED showed that even when a patient specifically asks to talk about questions of gender, their request may be ignored — either because such issues are seen as a low priority, or because health professionals have little training in this sphere.
The system recognizes shifts in behavior, such as a shorter gait — a sign that can predict a potential fall three weeks before it occurs — and issues a health alert to the patient's doctor or social worker.
«We know that sleep is a critical factor for overall health as we age, and this new research highlights sleep problems as both a significant health issue for older adults and an underacknowledged one both by patients and their providers,» says Alison Bryant, Ph.D., senior vice president of research for AARP.
«We believe that by treating or stopping obstructive sleep apnea progression, we will not only improve patients» quality of life, but also delay health issues related to aging.»
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.
Researchers conducted a meta - analysis of 186 studies of patients seeking help for mental health issues that examined whether they accepted the treatment that was recommended and if they did, whether they completed it.
Protecting public health is also an issue of patient safety.»
The study, published in the September issue of Annals of Surgery online, shows that providing pricing information upfront can influence patient choice of surgical procedures and potentially lead to cost savings in health care, a sector of the economy that accounts for more than 17 percent of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product, says Eric R. Scaife, M.D., senior author, associate professor of surgery and chief of pediatric surgery at the University of Utah (U of U) School of Medicine.
Like the other works, the latest study was observational and did not include baseline data on what health issues these patients might have had before they contracted Ebola.
The investigators found that 32 % of patients experienced at least one clinically meaningful mental health issue (defined in the study as a mental health disorder)-- a prevalence higher than in the general population, in which 18 - 20 % are estimated to have a clinically meaningful mental disorder.
Patients with multiple health issues and who are at higher risk of adverse events are less likely to receive follow - up care from a physician after visiting an emergency department for chest pain, reports a study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)
Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.
Researchers say that patients considered for treatment with TNF inhibitors should first be given an eye exam to determine eye health, and any with existing conditions, such as choroidal nevus (lesions on the eye), should be monitored regularly to determine if any issues are developing.
Published in the Jan. 12 issue of JAMA Internal Medicine, the study found that many older diabetes patients received aggressive treatment for their disease regardless of their health status and blood sugar levels.
Steven Francis, the MUHC patient at the centre of this discovery, has dealt with significant health issues his whole life.
«The health care provider identifies information the patient can use to build self - management skills, and also asks each patient what they want to learn about their epilepsy, whether it's medication management, avoiding seizure triggers, issues around driving — whatever they want to know about.
The finding warrants research into adding drugs that could prevent the cancer from hijacking patients» repressive gene regulatory machinery, which might allow the original therapy to work long enough to eradicate the tumor, the researchers report in their National Institutes of Health - funded study, published in the current issue of Science Translational Medicine.
Their study, entitled «When Patients Customize Nursing Home Ratings, Choices and Rankings Differ from the Government's Version,» appears in the April issue of Health Affairs.
Back in the clinic, doctors are confronted with the issue of resources again, with many of them feeling that the chronic underfunding of the National Health Service gives them less and less time to spend with patients.
The need for ongoing care for hearing - related issues was acknowledged in September 2014 when One Fund Boston, the charity created to accept and distribute donations to help those affected by the bombings, created the One Fund Center, which will serve patients who have had difficulties with tinnitus and other hearing - related problems; mental health issues, including post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety; and traumatic brain injury and its associated symptoms such as headache, cognitive symptoms and balance difficulties.