This is all designed to benefit the patient and make for better patient care.
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Today, evidence-based medicine is accessible for clinicians and linked to software that provides real-time, high-quality clinical decision support, which leads to increased accuracy, better patient care, streamlined documentation and the elimination of costs formerly related to manual inefficiencies.
Insurers are increasingly paying doctors and hospitals if they can better coordinate patient care rather than the fee-for-service system of today that pays for more care even though it is not necessarily better.
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He added the huge sums of money invested would be better spent improving patient care.
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Massive government dollars are wasted on bloated insurance bureaucracies better spent on actual patient care.
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"We're convinced this has the ability to create better, more efficient patient care, " says Arthur Collins Jr.
When ordinary Americans appeared at town hall meetings in August 2009 to protest passage of what became the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as ObamaCare, they were treated with disrespect.
This process led, eventually, to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act better known as Obamacare which also included an individual mandate.
There is no specific treatment for hantavirus infection, according to the CDC, but the earlier the patient is brought to intensive care, the better.
That is patient-centered care and I personally feel better for it.
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However, it says Rami cannot be looked at in isolation and that reviewing case notes after a patient dies is a better way to find out whether improvements to care are needed.
It points to a 300-patient trial published in the Lancet this year that found kyphoplasty was better than nonsurgical care for relieving spine fracture pain and improving function.
The first step was to revamp Intermountain's database to better link patient records at its hospitals and clinics to track how well each patient was faring in various measures of care, such as whether heart patients were getting the right drugs.
According to a recent Robert Wood Johnson Foundation study, when given the opportunity to review their medical notes, the majority of patients at three health systems reported a better understanding of their health conditions, felt more in-control of their care and had an improved doctor-patient relationship.
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