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By Nadia de la Houssaye Telehealth is one of the most exciting health care developments in decades. It has gained a firm foothold across the ...
Read More »Introducing Certainty and Reducing Potential Exposure in Telehealth Delivery
Independent Provider Networks Enter Health Care ‘Race To Get Bigger’ By Keeping Things Small
After more than six years since the Affordable Care Act became law in March 2010, officials at the Pennsylvania Medical Society say health care reform has created ...
Read More »Text Messages From Doctor’s Office Help Patients Take Their Meds
When patients with chronic diseases get text reminders from their doctor’s office to take their medicines, it doubles the chances they will take those drugs ...
Read More »Medicine does not take off for Christmas; Neither do doctors
Whether it’s delivering the first baby of the New Year or attending to an accident victim, for some medical professionals Christmas and New Year’s Day ...
Read More »Vice President Biden Calls for Renewed Focus on Patient Safety
By Anna Gorman Kaiser Health News Hospitals need to focus more on reducing preventable errors and infections and the government must create more economic incentives ...
Read More »Docs Should Negotiate Health Care Payer Contracts
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 21, 2015 (HealthDay News) — The terms in health care payer contracts are not immutable, and contracts should be negotiated, according to an ...
Read More »Maybe the Crowd Can Finally Tell Us The Cost of a Mammogram
How much does it cost? That’s the big, unknown question in healthcare. The same medical procedures cost different amounts depending on too many variables. Patients ...
Read More »Physician Assistants Increasing Access to Quality Health Care: Study
With millions of new patients poised to enter the healthcare system, the question on many Americans’ minds will soon be: “Will I have access to ...
Read More »Young People More Likely to Survive Ebola
By Marilynn Marchione ASSOCIATED PRESS Who survives Ebola and why? Health workers treating patients in Sierra Leone, including some who died doing that work, have ...
Read More »U.S. Health Care System Unprepared for Ebola
By Jeff Donn and Garance Burke ASSOCIATED PRESS The U.S. health care apparatus is so unprepared and short on resources to deal with the deadly ...
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