The review, launched in 2008, was set up to transform children's heart services to provide better care to patients and improve outcomes.
They provide better care to their patients, which allows them to reap financial rewards and invest in continuous business and clinical improvements.
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This will be one of the key advances required to bring better personalized cancer care to patients around the world.
This finding is motivating health care organizations to better inform patients about their conditions and care choices, so they can be more fully involved in maintaining their health and making decisions about their care.
The doctors and nurses, and even the janitors, sat in meetings almost weekly, working on ideas to make the service and the care better, not to get more money out of patients.
Result: fewer hours spent doling out medication, freeing up the nurses to take better care of their patients and reducing the chance of dispensing the wrong pills.
Now, all of these steps are part of a larger effort to make our system work better for nurses and for doctors, and to improve the quality of care for patients.
But Professor Richards also warned that the NHS had to continue ensuring quicker and better care for patients.
The draft report also recognized the need to better coordinate medical and long-term care for dementia patients, as well as improving care transitions for this very vulnerable population.
Chief Executive Hugh McCaughey said moving acute mental health care services to Lisburn will combine services and offer a better standard for patients.
For example, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a community dealing with an epidemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes that has the highest rate of cardiovascular disease deaths in the nation, the award will help 1, 600 physicians and other providers participate in a new community-wide health information system that will help them better monitor and improve care transitions as patients move from one care setting to another.
In doing so, it will unleash the power of the free market as patients are better able to take charge of their own care.
The U.S. health care system today is fraught with wasteful spending that does not contribute to better outcomes for patients.
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There is an abundance of information available that can help create a unified approach to improving the treatment of patients, measuring the quality of care and better managing costs.
To build a future of quality health care, we must trust patients and doctors to make medical decisions and empower them with better information and better options.
Macmillan Cancer Relief Chief Executive Peter Cardy said the government needed to accept the recommendations to ensure patients received better information so they could make informed decisions about their treatment and care.
The authors acknowledge that the fee-for-service reimbursement system, in which providers earn more by treating patients more aggressively, impedes the kind of disruptive innovation that would lead to better care at a lower cost.
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According to Kate Baicker, one of the Dartmouth economists, states with more general practitioners seem to spend less and have better quality care--perhaps because primary care docs help make sure patients have the most basic, effective care.
At Massachusetts General Hospital, families of admitted intensive care unit patients are invited to make posters with photos so that hospital staff members have a better sense of who they are.
Patients should have a choice and that they often receive better care in a specialty setting, according to proponents.
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But once records are open, connected, and more user-friendly, we can start to add intelligence to the network that will help doctors, nurses, care coordinators and patients all do a better job improving health, not health care.
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Last week, The Washington Post reported on a little-known provision added to the 2010 Affordable Care Act -- better known as Obamacare -- limiting what doctors can ask their patients about firearms in the home.
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