Our company has never turned away a single patient without health insurance who could not afford to pay.
The quick scan time and narrow probe head tip, also offer the possibility for a full body scan of multiple suspicious lesions in a single patient appointment.
Its biggest advantage is a single, integrated patient database.
One of the major reforms is expanding the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model, in which a single provider or practice coordinates patient care, including tracking referrals, maintaining electronic health records and communicating data to other providers.
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"By combining them at a single tablet and offering them at a single price, you obviously create a benefit to the patient, " says Richard Milani head of cardiology at the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans.
Paying for coordinated care means that every single provider is now united on being responsive to the needs of a single person: the patient.
The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, which creates medication instructions used by the federal National Library of Medicine, cautions that it will be difficult to boil down instructions to a single page without compromising patient safety, says Gerald McEvoy, assistant vice president of the group.
Oncologists will be able to take a single tumor cell from a cancer patient and determine within minutes or hours which aberrant genes are responsible for the cancer's growth, allowing them to customize therapy to the patient's particular genetic quirks, rather than having to guess which drugs might work best.
One "Oh, by the way" patient can single-handedly cause a physician to run 30 minutes behind.
While diminishing patient options, the single entry to a portal also diminishes the ability of the hospital to build the relationships with a network of outside providers and patients who are so critical to improving care, and ultimately, bringing more patients to the hospital.
Dr. House makes a brilliant diagnosis, then single-handedly intervenes to save the patient, often shooing away bureaucrats and the rare nurses haplessly getting in his way.
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In particular, he has a patient called Elliot (in neuroscience, patients are often referred to by single names or initials to preserve their privacy) whose frontal lobe was damaged by a brain tumour.
And by dentists: up to 450 dental crowns, each tailored for an individual patient, can be manufactured in one go in a day by a single machine, says EOS. Some craft producers of crowns would do well to manage a dozen a day.
Just a few years ago researchers had naively hoped that they could design a drug to blast a single cancer-causing protein and send the disease into remission for years without forcing the patient to endure the side effects of prolonged toxic chemotherapy.
It is also proposed that every patient with dementia is given a named "dementia care advisor" to be their single contact throughout diagnosis and treatment.
Mr Wladawsky-Berger's hospital would similarly crunch patient-data using the internet, or grid, as if it were a single, giant virtual microprocessor, but for a more earth-bound purpose.
Single lead VDD pacing in those with intact sinus node function (i.e. a young patient with congenital AV block) gets a class IIa indication.
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