All posts tagged "Patient"
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15Health News‘Telestroke’ Care at Hospitals Is Improving Patient Outcomes
By Ernie Mundell and Robert Preidt HealthDay ReportersTUESDAY, March 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) — You’ve had a stroke and arrive at a...
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17Men's HealthHeart-to-heart talk, LVAD procedure help patient get back on his feet
By: Patrick M. O’Connell When Mike Pawlak went to visit Dr. Greg Macaluso last summer to discuss his recent heart troubles, the...
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48Health CareDrive better patient care by focusing on 3 key areas
As patient care becomes more dynamic with the occurrence of COVID-19 and the rising cases of chronic conditions in the US, providers...
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9Health CareUPMC’s patient volumes stabilize, boosting 2020 profits
Volumes at UPMC largely rebounded to pre-pandemic levels in the second half of 2020, propelling the Pittsburgh, Pa.-based academic health system to...
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12Health NewsHow Pandemic Isolation Affected an Alzheimer’s Patient in a Nursing Home
While the nursing assistants came to change Peggy’s bedding, I talked to her treatment nurse in the hallway. When Peggy had arrived...
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13Health CareBuoy Health Wins Over Three Health Plans, Turns Symptom Checking into Patient Decision-Making – The Health Care Blog
Health Tech By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Symptom checker startup Buoy Health’s $37.5M Series C caught a lot of attention among health...
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30Health NewsPopit teams with Ashfield Engage to improve patient adherence
Finnish digital health startup Popit and global healthcare engagement firm Ashfield Engage have announced a collaboration to improve patient adherence. Popit’s monitoring...
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457Health NewsTransplant Patient Dies After Getting Covid-Infected Lungs
By JoNel Aleccia, Kaiser Health News Monday, February 22, 2021 (Kaiser News) — This story also ran on NBC News. It...
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15Health CareOrgan Transplant Patient Dies After Receiving Covid-Infected Lungs
Doctors say a woman in Michigan contracted covid-19 and died last fall two months after receiving a tainted double-lung transplant from a...
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25Health CareVivor CEO highlights patient financial assistance platform for hospitals and health systems
Vivor CEO and co-founder Ian Manners talks about the origins of the financial assistance startup and their mission to eliminate out-of-pocket costs...
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25Health CareUPMC pilots machine learning, telehealth to inform patient transfers
Thousands of patients each year are transferred between UPMC’s hospitals for high-acuity, complex medical care. To ensure patients are fully informed before...
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187Health CareMedicare Cuts Payment to 774 Hospitals Over Patient Complications
The federal government has penalized 774 hospitals for having the highest rates of patient infections or other potentially avoidable medical complications. Those...
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13DiabetesSeeking Care for Hyperglycemia in the Emergency Department: Through the Eyes of the Patient
Seeking Care for Hyperglycemia in the Emergency Department: Through the Eyes of the Patient Justin W. Yan, Dimah Azzam, Melanie P. Columbus,...
