patient need Articles
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Healthcare system as a value network
Healthcare systems consist of many different kinds of actors with varying interests and purposes. This forms a complex set of relationships, which can be seen as a network. The interesting question is how to balance in the network the needs of the patient as the customer and the purposes of the provider to operate effectively. We argue that a value network analysis is a key for this question, as ...
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Covid-19 Testing for Travel-What Your Patients Need to Know
Whether upcoming travel is for relaxation, business, or a combination of both, testing for COVID-19 is likely an integral part of the trip, especially when traveling by air. There are often very specific requirements on the type of test that will be accepted, and patients may be turning to their healthcare providers for advice. In this article, we provide links to relevant resources and a ...
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Pelvic Ring Injury in Polytrauma Treatment with the Curvafix IM System - Case Study
CASE PLANNING The bilateral upper extremity fractures, the pre-existing contralateral lower limb amputation with loss of the prosthesis, and the patient's need for immediate weight bearing on her right lower extremity were all considerations in proceeding with pelvic ring fixation using two CurvaFix IM Implants. Combined fixation of the anterior ring and the posterior ring provides the greatest ...
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Managing clinical knowledge among hospital nurses
Knowledge Management (KM) tools and processes, while established in many industries, are relatively new to healthcare. Healthcare organisations resemble virtual organisations that build flexible and dynamic care networks of multiple medical providers and professionals to address a patient's needs. This research studies the major factors impacting clinical KM strategy and processes in the floor ...
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Hospital and Health Care - Case Study
Hospitals need to be situated at the most convenient location available. Toxic pollution surrounding the hospital can be a heightened health risk for its patients. The hospital needs to ensure that its infrastructure shields its patients from these possible health risks. Prkruti can be a helpful tool to monitor the pollution levels so that necessary action can be taken as and when ...
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DELTASS – Disaster emergency logistic telemedicine advanced satellites system: telemedical services for disaster emergencies
In the Disaster Emergency Logistic Telemedicine Advanced Satellites Systems (DELTASS) project, a disaster scenario was analysed and an appropriate telecommunication system for effective rescue measures for victims was set up. OP 2000 has designed various telemedical services for the support of the medical staff in a Mobile Field Hospital (MFH), which can be located in a disaster area by experts ...
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Diagnostic yield of automatic and patient-triggered ambulatory cardiac event recording in the evaluation of patients with palpitations, dizziness, or syncope.
BACKGROUND: Recent studies have shown that patient-triggered cardiac event recorders (CER) have an increased diagnostic yield and are more cost effective than conventional 24-h-Holter electrocardiograms (ECGs) for the evaluation of sporadic, potentially arrhythmia-related symptoms. HYPOTHESIS: The aim of this study was to determine the diagnostic yield of a patient-triggered CER combined with ...
By Novacor
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Key Issues that Affect Healthcare Cost and Revenue
Balancing the needs of patients, government requirements, expanding services and maintaining a safe work environment, against financial goals can leave Healthcare providers stretched thin and at risk. Learn more about how to eliminate environment, health, and safety risks that impact your people, your brand, and your customers so you can focus on growing your business. Protect your most important ...
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Robotic surgery’s impact on training the next generation of surgeons [PODCAST]
Technology continues to evolve every day. In the near-term future, portable and easily deployable robots will allow surgeons all over the world to perform minimally invasive surgery in an increasing number of procedure types and become even more effective surgeons. To achieve our goal of having a future surgeon workforce that meets the demands of an aging population and delivers good patient ...
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Principal Care Management: Reimbursement for High-Value Care Management Services
It’s July and OCM has sunset, EOM is another year on the horizon, and you are wondering how to continue supporting your patients during this transitional period. Regardless of whether participating in a value-based care model is on your roadmap, PCM should be. Principal Care Management (PCM)1 is designed to reimburse specialty practices for providing needed care management services to ...
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6 Tips to Drive Engagement With Your Patient Education Platform
DID YOU KNOW that over 50% of patients say that a trusted care provider could get them to use a patient engagement platform, but only 11% of patients report that a care provider has ever talked to them about it?[1] So, if you only read this blog up to this point, and take the simple step of informing your patients about the platform and how it will benefit them, you will ...
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A proposal for a centralised patient record database: the need to identify patient data elements to measure costs, clinical outcomes and benchmarking
Although health care industry benchmarking is a feasible and worthwhile objective, the lack of consistent and accessible data makes it extremely difficult to do any reasonable comparisons. Therefore, this paper concentrates on the first phase of research pertaining to the identification of data measures and information requirements solely. We conclude with an investigation into whether the ...
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How to Attract Patients to Your O&P Practice
As an orthotics and prosthetics practice, attracting and retaining patients can be challenging. While there are millions of limb loss patients around the world, they may all be searching for different solutions. Consequently, it’s important to showcase your professional talents as a clinician as well as offer custom solutions to your patients’ needs. But, not to worry. We’ve ...
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Programmable Digital Hearing Aid
No all the digital hearing aid are programmable and what does programmable mean? User programmable hearing aid means that an audiologist can modify a hearing aid’s settings for your personal hearing loss – it also means that they can set the aid up so that you can hear the sounds that you want to hear in your everyday environments. There will default options for common situations such ...
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New levodopa therapeutic strategies
Abstract During its almost half-century of use for treating Parkinson's disease, levodopa therapy has permitted most patients to reverse much of this disorder's symptomatology. However, the full range of its therapeutic properties is not completely understood, as levodopa is showing itself to be more than just a metabolic intermediate for dopamine synthesis. Improving the constancy of drug ...
By Sensidose AB
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A system dynamics model of the fire department EMS in Taiwan
Allocation of pre-hospital EMS (Emergency Medical Service) resources and effectiveness of emergency medical training are critical to patients. The demands for EMS are expected to increase in the future. By analysing the relationship between emergency response and the survival rates, the effectiveness of EMS resources and competence of personnel were evaluated. In other words, the current EMS ...
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Programmable Digital Hearing Aid
No all the digital hearing aid are programmable and what does programmable mean? It means that an audiologist can modify a hearing aid’s settings for your personal hearing loss – it also means that they can set the aid up so that you can hear the sounds that you want to hear in your everyday environments. There will default options for common situations such as: at home, at a party, ...
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Expanding Our Commitment to Rare Disease Therapeutics
Each year, the last day of February serves as a reminder to pause and reflect on the challenges and unique needs of patients and families living with rare diseases. It is an opportunity for all members of the patient, medical, and scientific communities to shine a light on the urgent need to improve the care and support for those impacted by such conditions. At Moderna, we are working to ...
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One leg test balance! Very challenging
Standing on one leg is an essential task in activities of daily living (ADLs), from walking to stair climbing, shower transfer and lower body dressing (while standing). Besides that, it is necessary in many occupational and sports activities, making it an important stance to be included within a balance assessment session. One-leg stance duration is one the oldest balance tests using a simple ...
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Staying Safe with Exceptional Nurses!
This month, we are focusing on national safety and we introduce Dr. Donna Maheady, founder of ExceptionalNurse.com, a nonprofit organization for nurses and nursing students with disabilities. Safety in the workplace is important for workers and patients alike. The organization provides links to resources, support groups, research, continuing education, mentors, and scholarships. Check out ...
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