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1. Health IT Policy Committee: Mostashari urges workflow changes for better outcomes

   ... . “ As people know, diabetes greatly increases the risk of heart attack and stroke,” he said. Mostashari said the best ... the encounter. “It’s a new concept of population health management that lowers the center of gravity.” While process redesign ...

   lpedulli - 2013-05-14 13:25

2. Battlefield Innovations Boost Medical Care from Baghdad to Boston

   ... Springs, Colo., explaining that many advances in trauma management originate on the battlefield. The Boston bombings once again proved ... that protrudes through the skin, which creates an infection risk. The experimental technique, which grew from the dental field’s use ...

   mrivera - 2013-05-06 09:19

3. Patient Management: When ICD Leads Go Awry

   ... of each model is crucial for optimum patient monitoring and management. Yet this information is not typically available until long after a ... especially if they have comorbidities that increase their risk of complications. Although there are some risks associated with abandoning ...

   mrivera - 2013-05-02 09:36

4. Do the Right Things: Top 10 Ways to Provide Strategic Leadership

   Business guru Peter Drucker, the "father of modern management," famously held that management is doing things right while ... departmental survival—is airtight. "We all are at risk of being outsourced or replaced, so we need to spotlight value that we ...

   dcaparco - 2013-04-18 17:50

5. Florbetapir: Alzheimer’s Imaging Inches Into Practice

   ... landscape for dementia is evolving. However, practice management issues and uncertainty over the meaning of the scan results linger. ... with Alzheimer’s and is considered at much higher risk for Alzheimer’s. “Florbetapir is not a metabolic study, like FDG, ...

   mrivera - 2013-03-04 13:07

6. Ill Repute: Maintaining Your Good Name in Adversity

   ... He holds and documents a family meeting before all high-risk procedures. His purpose is to make sure that everyone who will be involved ...   Topic Category:  Practice Management Author Override:  Jill Gormley Primary ...

   mrivera - 2013-02-27 14:45

7. Net Health Acquires Integritas, Urgent Care and Occupational Health Leader

   ... Inc., a provider of integrated clinical EMR and practice management solutions for the growing urgent care, occupational health, and ... Health Communications, Pictometry, RiskMetrics Group (RISK, acquired by MSCI), Seamless, SurveyMonkey, and World-Check (acquired by ...

   lpedulli - 2013-05-21 16:45

8. SSRIs reduce rate of ischemia triggered by mental stress

   ... mental stress–induced hemodynamic response, metabolic risk factors, and platelet activity.” The study enrolled 127 patients ... availability of serotonin may be an important step in management of CHD,” they wrote. Jiang et al listed among limitations the ...

   cstuart - 2013-05-21 16:35

9. ONC and Blue Button Challenge winners talk health apps

   ... a collection of nearly 200 data visualization and care management tools for patients and providers designed to deliver comprehensive ... pharmacy cards. The app also alerts consumers if they are at risk of a health condition. Video demonstrations of the winners’ apps ...

   lpedulli - 2013-05-20 09:40

10. Analytics report: data critical to future of ACOs, population health

    ... “Population health management, a model designed to maximize the health and minimize the cost of ... understanding of their costs in order to manage financial risk, how they can improve upon data collection and how to optimize analytics. ...

    bwalsh - 2013-05-15 17:09

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