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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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.
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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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The state's health care program for public employees could face changes, pending the results of a study conducted by an Atlanta-based consultant.
Gov. Scott Walker's administration has contracted with the Segal Co. to study potential cost-cutting changes to the state's health insurance plans, including moving to a self-insured coverage program, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Wednesday.
That news came the same day the conservative MacIver Institute and National Center for Policy Analysis presented a report calling for changes to the state's health care benefit program for public retirees, based on the strengths of the state's pension fund.
The think tanks offered recommendations for both the pension system and the state's post-employment health benefit program. Their health coverage recommendations included higher premiums for retirees, closing the current program to future employees and those below age 45 and shifting those employees to a pre-funded plan, particularly one with a health savings account.
Asked about the MacIver and NCPA suggestions, Walker spokeswoman Laurel Patrick said in an email that the governor's priority is to continue to provide high-quality benefits at a good value to both current and retired state employees.
"According to PEW, Wisconsin is the only state in the nation with a fully funded pension system and the only state rated a solid performer in both pension and OPEB liabilities that include retiree health insurance," Patrick said. "Governor Walker will continue to look at ways to control costs and provide quality care."
The Segal study will explore several potential changes with the goal of saving taxpayers money on health coverage for state employees. One such change a shift away from private health maintenance organizations was floated by Walker last year, but no decision was reached.
Under the current model, state employees choose between private HMOs, which forces competition in the marketplace. Under a self-insured model, the state would pay benefits directly and assume the risk for losses rather than paying premiums to HMOs.
The study will take a broader focus than assessing the move to self-insurance, unlike two previous studies conducted by the consulting firm Deloitte.
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Genes arent all that, whats really important is the environmental regulation of these genes
This crap. Okay, so a raccoon can become a human with a proper environment?
If not, then what is this guy saying? Is he saying 100% of all differences between all individual humans are down to environmental effects? 90%? 80%?
Or is he just saying that differences between big groups of humans (dont dare call them races) are 99.999% down to environment? Individuals can differ in the hard code, groups of individuals can differ, but if the groups correspond with the classical races, then the hard code cannot differ in anything but that which is labeled by people today as unimportant, things like skin color.
The silly thing is that epigenetic effects are ALREADY CAPTURED in old heritability estimates. Theyre just put in the bucket labeled environmentality.
Its interesting to learn about the mechanisms by which environmentality occurs, but this guy heavily implies that this mechanism increases the importance of environment above what was previously considered.
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Contact: Steve Yozwiak syozwiak@tgen.org 602-343-8704 The Translational Genomics Research Institute
PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Dec. 12, 2014 -- Using a basic genetic difference between men and women, the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) has uncovered a way to track down the source of a neurological disorder in a young girl.
TGen's discovery relies on a simple genetic fact: Men have one X and one Y chromosome, while women have two X chromosomes. This women-only factor was leveraged by TGen investigators to develop a highly accurate method of tracking down a previously unrecognized disorder of the X-chromosome.
The study of a pre-teen girl, who went years with an undiagnosed neurobehavioral condition, was published today in the scientific journal PLOS ONE.
TGen's findings were made within its Dorrance Center for Rare Childhood Disorders, where investigators and clinicians apply the latest tools of genomic medicine to provide answers for parents seeking to identify the disease or disorder affecting their child.
The scientists sequenced, or spelled out in order, the complete genetic codes of DNA and RNA of the girl. Because girls inherit an X chromosome from each of their parents (boys inherit a Y chromosome from their father), they also sequenced her mother and father. On average, about half of all X chromosomes active in a female come from the mother and the other half from the father.
"We now have the tools to significantly accelerate the diagnostic process, reducing the need for children to undergo multiple tests that can be emotionally and physically taxing for the entire family," said Dr. David Craig, TGen's Deputy Director of Bioinformatics, Co-Director of the Dorrance Center and the paper's senior author.
Sequencing would reveal the proportion of X chromosomes, and if disproportionate, whether the more abundant of the two were damaged in some way, which often leads to X-linked genetic conditions.
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ITU TELECOM WORLD 2014 SOUNDBYTES: Gerd Leonhard, Futurist and CEO, The Futures Agency
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