Sentences with phrase «toward medical use»

The differences between immigrants and non-immigrants with respect to medical services seem to be a result of differences in access and social attitudes toward medical use.

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The company is selling a thing (the kit) by saying it can provide «health reports on 254 diseases and conditions,» including categories such as «carrier status,» «health risks,» and «drug response,» and specifically as a «first step in prevention» that enables users to «take steps toward mitigating serious diseases» such as diabetes, coronary heart disease, and breast cancer...» Most of the uses «listed on your website, a list that has grown over time,» the FDA writes, «are medical device uses [for the] Personal Genome Service.»

After 10 months, the pool will be split among any women who aren't yet pregnant to be used toward medical intervention.

As the government moves toward legalization, it also faces the enormous challenge of combatting the widely held mistaken belief that marijuana is harmless, according to a number of medical organizations and substance use experts.

You will want to choose your doctors carefully, particularly with respect to their attitudes toward suicide and the use of the medical profession in hastening death.

Hence the minister directs his attention as much toward the «world» as the dean of a medical school has his eye on the potentially and actually sick people of the society outside his closed community of healers, or, to use a wholly different analogy, as much as the mayor of a city keeps in view the nature and the needs of the cultural and economic society of which his city is a center.

Krishna Shenoy, the Lim professor of electrical engineering, bioengineering and neurobiology at Stanford and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, noted, «This substantial reduction in training time is remarkable as it requires the new algorithm to make very efficient use of neural data coming in for so little time, under a minute in some cases, and helps point the way toward further advances of real - world importance.»

In collaboration with the host country, the site enables collection of samples that can be used in research toward new medical countermeasures, and allows USAMRIID to evaluate the performance of previously developed laboratory tests using samples collected on - site.

A review of recent progress toward developing effective gene therapies for use in «regenerative surgery» appears in the June issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery ®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).

Limiting the use of antibiotics for animal - growth promotion is an important step toward reducing bacterial resistance to medical drugs, says Levy, but he emphasizes that doctors also must be more prudent in prescribing antibiotics if medicine is going to combat growing drug resistance in microbes.

After years of bacteria - bashing by the mainstream medical establishment and the push toward excessive use of antibiotics, it can be challenging to understand how bacteria can actually provide benefit.

Money left in the savings account earns interest and is yours to use toward future medical expenses.

It'll be used for reward money in other cases, to cover medical bills and long term rehabilitation for animals who survive abuse, and toward memorial costs for those who don't make it.

If, within those 60 days, you determine your recently adopted pet isn't a good fit or you find yourself unable to provide necessary medical care, you may return the animal to AHS and receive an adoption credit certificate that can be used toward the adoption of another animal or purchase of pet supplies.

Using these skills, I hope to work toward some of my larger personal and professional goals: earning a PhD in neuroscience after my DVM, becoming a professor at a veterinary or medical college, and continuing to write about issues in which veterinarians have something to add to the conversation.

We must also work together as medical professionals toward the judicious use of antimicrobials and combatting antimicrobial resistance.»

As of January 1, 2017, credentialed medical assistants (in addition to licensed health care professionals) are permitted to enter medication, laboratory, and diagnostic imaging orders into the electronic health record (EHR) and have such entry count toward meeting the meaningful use thresholds under only the Medicaid EHR Incentive Program.

If it is discovered that order entry was done by individuals other than licensed professionals or credentialed medical assistants, the auditors could cite this violation, and it is possible that the order entry by these individuals would not be counted toward meeting the meaningful use thresholds.

Medical assisting credentials given by health systems, clinics, and other employers, therefore, would not meet the CMS definition, and medication, laboratory, and radiology orders entered into the CPOE system by medical assistants with these «in - house» credentials could not be counted toward meeting the meaningful use thresholds of the EHR Incentive PrMedical assisting credentials given by health systems, clinics, and other employers, therefore, would not meet the CMS definition, and medication, laboratory, and radiology orders entered into the CPOE system by medical assistants with these «in - house» credentials could not be counted toward meeting the meaningful use thresholds of the EHR Incentive Prmedical assistants with these «in - house» credentials could not be counted toward meeting the meaningful use thresholds of the EHR Incentive Programs.

However, on Aug. 13, 2012, CMS issued a final rule for the Incentive Programs stating that «credentialed medical assistants» (as well as licensed health care professionals) would be permitted — as specifically directed by the overseeing health care provider — to enter medication, radiology, and laboratory orders into the Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) system and have such entry count toward meeting the meaningful use thresholds under the Incentive Programs.

The current movement from the FCMH toward the medical neighborhood, which encompasses the FCMH combined with other clinical health services and community and social service organizations at the state and local public health levels, may also serve as a facilitator.35 Because families are more likely to use health services when they reflect the families» perceived needs, communication between home visitors and FCMH clinicians regarding specific needs is likely to result in more preventive care use and better retention in HV programs.36 Integration may also allow home visitors and medical home providers to better understand patients» and families» needs and preferences, and more directly address their concerns.