AdhereTx: Supports team-based medication management and reconciliation for high-risk patients at the point of care.
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To make hospitals truly efficient, information technology needs to be interconnected and applied at each point of care.
The best part is the potential for distributing the intelligence anywhere via the cloud, right at the point of care.
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Herring, a 38-year-old senior software engineer for Abbott Point of Care Inc.
Epocrates which provides clinical information to doctors on a mobile device at the point of care, has one of the most formidable networks of doctors.
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The X PRIZE Foundation and Qualcomm seeks to achieve this by combining advancements in expert systems and medical point of care data such as wireless sensors, advancements in medical imaging and microfluidics.
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Medical informaticists, researchers and innovative companies are focusing on this essential limitation of medical decision-making by designing information systems to be used by physicians at the point of care, during the patient encounter.
The point of managed care was to introduce a degree of rationing into a health-care system that, by the late 1980s, was suffering from inflation of 15% a year or even more.
Omar was named an Officer of the General Electric Company in 1999, and in January of 2005 was appointed President and CEO of Clinical Systems, a diverse portfolio of point-of-care medical devices.
During my research on Steve Jobs, I interviewed Rob Campbell, the CEO of Voalte, a wireless software provider for hospitals and point-of-care facilities.
The Toughbook C2 is built to be the ideal mobile point-of-care solution for nurses, doctors and other healthcare professionals.
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Then, we are implementing shared decision-making, using point-of-care tools that help with issues such as which medicine to take for diabetes or whether to take statins or aspirin to reduce the risk of heart attack.
U. make their own checklists for what they thought should be done each day improved the consistency of care to the point that, within a few weeks, the average length of patient stay in intensive care dropped by half.
There are also areas where even economists seem to develop something of a blind spot on the point, health care being one of the more obvious such.
And yet, when just one such benefit was disclosed to ardent opponents of health care, they flipped their point of view like a pancake on the skillet.
At every step, the proponents of regulation point to some alleged set of problems in health care, blame them on the market, and call on government to solve them.
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That would be the point of buying the long term care insurance product in the first place.
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And the final point is that the costs of health care -- setting aside anything we did in reform, I mean, if we just allowed the current trajectory to go on -- is out of control.
Mr Cameron said on Sunday he strongly supported the founding principles of the NHS, including "health care for all, free at the point of use, unrelated to the ability to pay".
About three-quarters of 65-year-olds will need care at some point in their lives, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) has said.
In the last quarter, UnitedHealth reported a significant dip of 170 basis-point in medical care ratio, as customers were avoiding medical expenses altogether due to bleak economic conditions.
For we've reached the point where doing nothing about the cost of health care is no longer an option.
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"Specialist cancer nurses provide invaluable care and support from the point of diagnosis, throughout treatment and after, " said Mr Devane.
This is the reality of intensive care: at any point, we are as apt to harm as we are to heal.
Both of these studies underscore the importance of prenatal education and care, and point to applying good health habits, especially when pregnant.
And again I would point you to, on the issue of reducing health care costs, what he did with the Affordable Care Act.
The point of the ACO is to create a scenario where a group of physicians, hospitals and other health care workers can work closely together in the care of a patient.
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Specifically, just because it's a fact, on the issue of health care reform savings, I point you to the CBO, non-partisan CBO, which absolutely concluded that the Affordable Care Act is a deficit reducer -- a rather substantial deficit reducer.
So while WellPoint has turned into the Goldman Sachs of health care over the last year, the company is a tightly run ship from a financial point of view.
At the beginning of the talk, she makes the point that health care costs are indeed our budget buster.
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