Medical economics
Emailing your doctor could soon cost you
Email has become an easy and essential form of communication between patients and physicians—so much so that doctors are deluged daily with messages from patients.
Feb 10, 2023
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Medical economics
Remote symptom reporting systems for patients may reduce outpatient waiting lists
Digital systems for patients to monitor and report symptoms remotely may offer a solution to reduce outpatient waiting lists, according to a new review published by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Feb 9, 2023
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Cardiology
Alcohol brief intervention can improve health outcomes in hypertension
An alcohol brief intervention (BI) in primary care can improve health outcomes for adults with hypertension, according to a study published online Jan. 19 in BMJ Open.
Feb 8, 2023
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Health
Researchers call for prescription charge to be cut
Removing the $5 prescription charge for people in areas of high socioeconomic deprivation reduces the number of hospital admissions and the length of stays, a new study shows.
Feb 7, 2023
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Health
Health disparities in preventive screenings for African Americans
Preventive health screenings are important for everyone, yet these simple and routine things are not readily available to some. Nothing in life is perfect, medicine included. The health care system has not figured out a way ...
Feb 3, 2023
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Gerontology & Geriatrics
Dramatic improvement in the prevalence of disabilities among older Americans since 2008
The prevalence of disabilities among American adults aged 65 and older is much lower than it was for the same age group a decade earlier, according to a nationally representative study published online in the International ...
Feb 3, 2023
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Pediatrics
Financial coaching for parents in clinics yields higher attendance at their kids' well-child health care visits
Implementing financial coaching for parents of infants in a pediatric primary care setting reduced missed well-child care visit rates by half and significantly improved receipt of vaccinations at a timely age, according to ...
Feb 2, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
President Biden to end COVID-19 emergencies on May 11
President Joe Biden informed Congress on Monday that he will end the twin national emergencies for addressing COVID-19 on May 11, as most of the world has returned closer to normalcy nearly three years after they were first ...
Jan 31, 2023
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Medical economics
Care costs more in consolidated health systems, reveals new research
Health care integration has long been touted as a panacea for reining in health care costs and boosting quality of care.
Jan 24, 2023
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Medical economics
Novel framework provides 'measuring stick' for assessing patient matching tools
Accurate linking of an individual's medical records from disparate sources within and between health systems, known as patient matching, plays a critical role in patient safety and quality of care, but has proven difficult ...
Jan 17, 2023
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