Not Enough Health Care Professionals In Rural Colorado
Dr. Greg Suchon from Pediatric Associates in Montrose discussed the difficulties of getting care as a result of the health care coverage expansion. Rural communities are seeing more and more...
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Mechanical Ventilation Explained Clearly! 5 of 5
Understand the process of liberating (weaning) patients from a mechanical ventilator and extubation with this clear explanation from Dr. Roger Seheult. Video 5 of 5. MedCram: Medical Topics...
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Webinar: e-Booking, it can work for your practice too!
Discover: - Why nearly 90% of Canadians would like to be able to e-book appointments with their health care provider, if it was available; - How e-booking can improve both clinician and patient...
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Infected with Ebola in Atlanta Airport, 13 December
Another Ebola case has been discovered in Atlanta 13 December. Liberian citizen, arrived to the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. To the getting-down at the ATL health care...
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PHOENIX - Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell will be in Arizona on Saturday as she works to encourage residents to sign up for individual health insurance or renew and re-enroll for coverage they bought last year.
Burwell will visit enrollment centers at South Mountain Community College in Phoenix and Los Ranchitos Elementary School in Tucson. She'll meet with local elected officials and residents at the enrollment events.
Time is short for those who want a plan in place by Jan. 1. The deadline to sign up for a plan that begins by New Year's Day is Monday. Open enrollment closed for everyone Feb. 15.
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Key facts, changes and issues during the second open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act:
ALREADY INSURED?
If you signed up for health insurance for 2014 during the first open enrollment period, that doesn't mean you should ignore this enrollment period.
A large number of the 120,000 Arizonans who bought insurance this year get subsidies based on their income, so it is important that they update their information at http://www.healthcare.gov , to update their subsidy amount.
Also, because so many plans are changing next year and premiums have changed, now's the time to shop around.
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Pleasanton, CA (PRWEB) December 11, 2014
Oakland Unified School District (OUSD), today announced it will soon launch a series of interactive health care simulations for high school students. Toolwire, a leading provider of online Experiential Learning products and solutions, co-created this multi-episode Healthcare Experience and Real World Training (H.E.A.R.T.) LearnScape with subject matter experts from OUSD and input from students at Life Academy of Health and Bioscience in Oakland.
This week Toolwire introduced these experiential learning simulations to program administrators and faculty members from Life Academy, Public Health Academy at Oakland High School, and the Health Academy at Oakland Technical High School. Over the next few months, these teachers will implement these online learning experiences into courses serving roughly 160 students (grades 10 through 12).
The James Irvine Foundation provided support for product development, with an interest to have this virtual internship available to multiple schools and thousands of California students as part of Linked Learninga proven approach that is transforming education for California students by integrating rigorous academics with career-based learning and real world workplace experiences. To measure the effect of this innovative initiative, the Irvine Foundation has provided a grant to Learning for Action.
Toolwire is truly honored to be a part of this exciting initiative, and we are grateful for the Irvine Foundations sponsorship, which has made this possible, commented Cameron D. Crowe, Toolwires Executive Vice President.
The H.E.A.R.T. LearnScape incorporates California Career Technical Education Model Curriculum Health Science and Medical Technology (HSMT) Anchor Standards such as Communication, Problem Solving and Critical Thinking, Health and Safety, Responsibility and Flexibility, Ethics and Legal Responsibilities, and Leadership and Teamwork.
It has been thrilling to work on this project, said Susan Benz, Career Readiness Manager of the OUSD Linked Learning Office. This LearnScape has been carefully designed to incorporate academic and technical skills and knowledge students need to pursue career opportunities in health science and medical technology fields. What I love about LearnScapes is how the upfront development effort results in a final product that can be scaled for reuse by faculty members to positively impact thousands of students across the state of California.
Dr. Doug Beckwith, PhD, JD (Senior Fellow at Toolwire) is responsible for introducing the LearnScape to Life Academy faculty members. Dr. Beckwith, a former university Dean who was among the first to co-create LearnScapes with Toolwire and use them in his classroom, commented, In addition to previewing the basic LearnScape content and features, we look forward to sharing proven best practices for incorporating these learning experiences into courses in ways that ignite classroom discussions, motivate students to investigate readings more deeply, and inspire students to dedicate themselves towards a larger goal of graduating from school and pursuing a successful, fulfilling career.
A key component of Linked Learning is providing high school students with real-world work experiences. The H.E.A.R.T. LearnScape supports this effort by providing students a consistent, high quality virtual internship experience with virtual mentors and integrated mechanisms for assessing student performance and providing dynamic remediation. This will prepare students for internships and other experiences on-site with health care employers. We are excited about the H.E.A.R.T. LearnScape launch and the potential to scale this initiative in the future, said Carrie Portis, Senior Program Officer at the Irvine Foundation.
About Oakland Unified School District The Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) is the State of Californias most improved urban school district over the past eight years, as measured by Academic Performance Index (API), Californias primary metric for measuring student achievement. During this time, the Districts 46,000 students have benefited from 128 points of API growth and a focus on the whole child embodied by OUSDs Community Schools, Thriving Students vision of a full-service community school district. In this model, every school site offers high levels of learning along with physical health, mental health, dental and eye care; nutrition, physical education, recreation, before-school and afterschool programs; housing, employment, parenting and language acquisition courses and a range of other programs. Social and human services are not seen as extra or add-ons in these schools. Instead, collaboration in service of children and families is how they consistently behave. To learn more about Community Schools, Thriving Students, please visit: http://www.thrivingstudents.org.
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Men, Women sharing same bed in Pakistani Hospitals
Atomic power Pakistan is so developed that now it #39;s hospital is accommodating male and female on the same bed. Not only this but they have also invented a technology of putting bricks under...
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The Future of Employer-Provided Health Insurance
On October 9, 2014, Penn Wharton PPI and the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics co-sponsored the conference Health Care Reform in 2015: What the Research Tells Us. The third and final...
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Ask a Healthcare Professional Flu Shot
Flu season is here, have you gotten your flu shot? Dr. Eugene Sun, Chief Medical Officer for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico provides answers to all your questions about flu shots...
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Nathan Health Care Center Receive Tribute Medicine Coupons By Charles Myrick Of ACRX
http://www,freemedicinecoupons.com -Identifying individuals and organizations giving back to others in need. "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is...
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Kyiv public health care in future. Ukraine Crisis Media Center, 11th of December 2014
Topic: Reforms the Kyiv way: what is expected for Kyiv public health care Mykhailo Radutskiy, Deputy Head, Kyiv City State Administration.
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Health Benefits of Bottle gourd or Lauki
Bottle gourd is very helpful in weight loss, heart problem, Insomnia, Burning Urination and in many more problems, check out the video of F3 Health Care and learn how you can get benefits of...
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Dr. Carol Ash on "CBS This Morning"
Dr. Carol Ash on "CBS This Morning" discussing "brain drain." Meridian Health is a premier Health Care Provider of Six Hospitals in New Jersey.
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December 10, 2014 - Question Period - Long term care
Long-term Care Mrs. Forsyth: Mr. Speaker, last year the government spent $910 million on health services in long-term care, or more accurately that #39;s the amount of money that they think...
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Help save lives: Donate to our cardiac monitor fundraising campaign
Teton Valley Hospital Foundation is raising money for two cardiac monitors -- on for the Teton Valley Hospital emergency room and one for an ambulance. These machines are the latest technology...
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A tidal wave of innovation is going to affect health care. Increased cost responsibility means were becoming financially invested in seeking out better, lower-cost care. The results are going to be profound in 2015 and beyond.
Here are five predictions for how your health-care involvement will change:
1. You wont visit a doctors office for a diagnosis:. Retail clinics and urgent care centers are often more convenient. Over-the-counter home kits are moving beyond pregnancy tests and glucose monitoring, able to diagnose conditions including Hepatitis C, HIV, and even prostate cancer. And apps and wearable technology scans for everything from fever to Parkinsons disease.
Berg co-founder and president Niven Narain joins Simon Constable on digits and discusses how artificial intelligence can play a role in both the business world and the health-care sector. Photo: iStock/ymgerman.
This trend means seeing the doctor less often, for more serious problems. And wearable technology provides hard data that patients can discuss with their doctors, allowing for more accurate diagnosis and care.
By 2020, simple diagnostic tools and tests will become the norm. There is a huge demand for such self-diagnostic procedures, which could reduce the cost and resources it takes to provide routine care.
2. Provider price wars: More options for medical care and diagnosis, coupled with increased transparency, will rev the engine of the health care marketplace. Quality information on hospitals and doctors has been in the public domain through websites. Now, companies and health plans are starting to pair quality data with cost, allowing consumers to shop for care. This trio of competition, cost and choice will fuel price wars among health care providers.
Besides retail-store clinics such as those found at CVS Health Corp. CVS, -1.09% and Walgreen Co. WGN, +2.56% , hospitals and medical centers will also compete on price. For example, the Surgery Center of Oklahoma guarantees the price for procedures, inclusive of doctor fees, initial consults and uncomplicated follow-up care. As a result, the business attracts patients from across the country. The cost is cheaper than local hospitals, and employers are willing to foot the bill flights, travel and lodging included.
Expect to see more of this. Coupons, incentives and other retail-model discounts will become part of the health-care shopping experience for patients. The beneficiaries will be patients and their pocketbooks. Better care at lower cost courtesy of the free market.
By 2020, patients will access these specialized centers of excellence. Hospitals will invest in specific diseases and disorders, while general surgeries and procedures will be outsourced to more efficient and price-competitive surgery centers.
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LEBANON Although the concept of Coordinated Care Organizations in Oregon remains in its infancy, results are already promising, a panel of health care experts told COMP-Northwest students and staff Thursday.
Panel members were Sean Kolmer, Gov. Kitzhabers health care policy adviser; State Rep. Tim Freeman, R-Roseburg; State Sen. Alan Bates, D-Medford; and Jeff Heatherington, CEO of Family Care Inc., a CCO serving the Multnomah County area.
The program was moderated by Ginger Cupit, 2017 class president.
Bates joined the forum via Skype from his office in southern Oregon.
The shift to CCOs came about after the 2010 election, when for the first time in Oregon history, the House of Representatives was split evenly between Democrats and Republicans.
We figured out quickly that we had to work together, Freeman said. It turned out well for Oregon.
Instead of a top-down flow of money and management from the state level, Coordinated Care Organizations allow local health care experts to determine how state moneys will be used to more effectively serve the needs of their local patients.
Heatherington said 17 percent of the USAs gross domestic product is spent on health care, compared to 11 percent in other industrialized nations.
The six percent difference is what isnt being spent to improve our infrastructure or education, he said. Health care costs are sucking money out of other basic services. If we don't have reform, we will be fighting battles to fund everything from preschools to higher education.
Freeman said other states funnel money into health care in a silo-like fashion, with each branch of health care battling for its share of funding.
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Health care stocks were broadly lower today with the NYSE Health Care Sector Index declining about 1.1% and shares of health care companies in the S&P 500 slipping about 0.9% as a group.
In company news, Organovo ( ONVO ) rose sharply on Friday following a television appearance late yesterday by the medical-device company's CEO explaining how its 3-D printer technology is being used to produce liver tissue for testing new drugs.
The company's 3-D printer lays out 24 layers of human liver tissue, ONVO Chief Executive Keith Murphy said during an interview appearance Thursday on CNBC's "Fast Money."
The "artificial" livers also are proving to be a popular product for pharmaceutical companies, Murphy said. "Big Pharma actually wants to use us a service," he said, noting how drug-makers can the printed liver tissue to study the potential effects of new medications, replacing animal models during pre-clinical trials.
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Health care stocks were broadly lower, with the NYSE Health Care Sector Index declining about 1.1% and shares of health care companies in the S&P 500 slipping about 0.8% as a group.
In company news, Jazz Pharmaceuticals ( JAZZ ) fell Friday despite the drugmaker's saying it has initiated a rolling submission of a new drug application with U.S. regulators for its defibrotide drug candidate as a treatment of severe hepatic veno-occlusive disease in patients undergoing hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation therapy.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration previously gave fast-track designation to defibrotide to treat severe VOD.
The company said it expects to complete the new drug application for defibrotide by mid-year, at which time it anticipates requesting a priority review by the FDA. JAZZ in July acquired commercialization rights for the drug in the United States and the rest of North and South America. It also markets defibrotide in Europe as Defitelio.
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