Category Archives: Health Care: Home Health Care
Personality affects how likely people are to take their medication: PloS ONE
The results of a unique study from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, show that personality has an impact on how likely people are to take their medication. This is the first major study of its kind to be published in … Continue reading
Take 2 aspirin and ping me in the morning: Acute care’s prescription automation movement marches on
McKesson has announced the release of the InterQual 2011 solution, introducing condition specific criteria to its flagship acute criteria product, a new specialty pharmaceutical criteria set, and acute criteria inside McKesson’s Clear Coverage point of care, decision support platform. These … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care, Health Care: Costs, Health Care: Health Information Exchange, Health Care: Health Insurance, Health Care: HIPAA, Health Care: Home Health Care, Health Care: Hospitals, Health Care: Medical Devices, Health Care: Medical Errors, Health Care: Medical Errors: Hospital Readmissions, Health Care: Reform, Health Care: Technology, Health Coaching
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How targeting top 911 callers can trim costs, improve patient care: new study in The American Journal of Emergency Medicine
Repeated unnecessary 911 calls are a common drain on the manpower and finances of emergency medical services, but a pilot program that identified Baltimore City’s top 911 callers and coupled them with a case worker has succeeded in drastically cutting … Continue reading
NEJM: Why exercise, diet combo are better than either alone
The top 100 “Hot, New” releases in the health, mind, and body category For obese seniors, dieting and exercise together are more effective at improving physical performance and reducing frailty than either alone. The research, by a team at Washington … Continue reading
Posted in Commercial Fitness Industry, Elder Care, Exercise, Exercise: Benefits, Exercise: Resistance Training, Exercise: Walking, Fitness, Health Care, Health Care: Home Health Care, Heart Health, Men's Health, Nutrition, Sports Medicine, Women's Health
Tagged Armamento-Villareal R, Chode S. Parimi N, Hilton T, Napoli N, Qualls C, Shah K., Sinacore DR, Villareal DT
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Nurses, moving to the forefront of health care, are the subject of a large symposium in April at GW
At a time when there is a shortage of primary care providers, a nurse-led model of primary care offers consumers with limited access to primary care new opportunities to receive high-quality health care. To bring attention to the role of … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care, Health Care: Costs, Health Care: Home Health Care, Health Care: Medicare, Health Care: Nursing, Health Care: Reform
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Genetic based tests: consumers have no idea how to read them
A report released by Cogent Research reveals that a majority of Americans support government involvement in the distribution of direct-to-consumer genomics-based tests. This and other findings are explored in more detail in the 5th edition of the Cogent Genomics, Attitudes … Continue reading
Posted in Genetics, Health Care: Home Health Care, Health Care: Technology, Personalized Medicine
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So-called guided care cuts costs for older chronically ill people: Archives of Internal Medicine
A new report shows that older people who receive Guided Care, a new form of primary care, use fewer expensive health services compared to older people who receive regular primary care. Research published in the March 2011 edition of Archives … Continue reading
HHS researchers: Half of US children do not have access to all components of a pediatric medical home
The Medical Home: Health Care Access and Impact for Children and Youth in the United States Published online March 14, 2011 PEDIATRICS (doi:10.1542/peds.2009-3555) Bonnie B. Strickland, PhDa, Jessica R. Jones, MPHa, Reem M. Ghandour, DrPH, MPAa, Michael D. Kogan, PhDa, … Continue reading
Residential trumps outpatient treatment 2:1 for smoking cessation: Mayo Clinic
In the March issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, researchers report that residential treatment for tobacco dependence among heavy smokers greatly improves the odds of abstinence at six months compared with standard outpatient treatment. The study reports that 52 percent of … Continue reading
Posted in COPD, Corporate Wellness, Emphysema, Health Care, Health Care: Home Health Care, Health Care: Hospitals, Health Coaching, Human Behavior, Human Behavior: Learning, Men's Health, Mental Health, Nutrition: Eating Disorders, Obesity, Personalized Medicine, Pharmaceuticals, Public Health, Smoking, Women's Health
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Elder care: Humana HomeCare Solutions debuts at Max-Wellness stores, a new concept retail chain
Most of our nation’s elderly have one wish – to age successfully and happily in their own homes. In order to do so, however, they often require help with transportation, home safety, meals, medications, and even daily tasks like bathing … Continue reading
Posted in Elder Care, Health Care, Health Care: Costs, Health Care: Home Health Care, Health Care: Medicare
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Fluid retention may be culprit in medications that raise heart attack and stroke risk
New research shows that medications which have raised safety concerns over heart attack and stroke risks may not have gotten approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) if the cardiovascular effects of fluid retention had been better understood. Fluid … Continue reading
Posted in Arthritis, Arthritis: Osteoarthritis, Arthritis: Rheumatoid, Diabetes, Elder Care, Health Care, Health Care: Costs, Health Care: Electronic Health Records, Health Care: Health Information Exchange, Health Care: Health Insurance, Health Care: Home Health Care, Health Care: Medical Errors, Health Care: Medical Errors: Hospital Readmissions, Health Care: Medicare, Health Care: Technology, Heart Disease: Heart Attack, Heart Health, Pain, Pharmaceuticals
Tagged fluid retention and heart attack risk, fluid retention and stroke risk
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When to call, and not call, an ambulance: Emergency Medicine Journal
When a baby has a stiff neck and a high fever, or an elderly person starts slurring their words without being under the influence of alcohol, it’s time to call an ambulance — but not many people know this, a … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Wellness, Health Care, Health Care: Costs, Health Care: Health Insurance, Health Care: Home Health Care, Health Care: Technology, Men's Health, Pediatric Health, Pediatric Health: Accidental Drug Ingestion, Pediatric Health: Infants, Proactive Prevention, Women's Health
Tagged ambulance abuse, when to call an ambulance
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Elder drug errors in nursing homes 4x more likely with liquids: BMJ Quality and Safety journal
Residents in nursing and old age homes are four times as likely to get an incorrect dose of medication if it’s in liquid rather than pill form, researchers reported. In a study in 55 British homes, errors included such things … Continue reading
Posted in Elder Care, Health Care, Health Care: Disparities, Health Care: Home Health Care, Health Care: Medical Errors
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First fully integrated NFC cell phone for consumer diagnostics and social networks apps launched by Gentag
WASHINGTON, EINDHOVEN, Netherlands and HUIZHOU, China, Feb. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ – GENTAG, Inc. and its partners are pleased to announce the commercial availability of a low-cost near field communication (NFC) cell phone for RFID sensor applications, including consumer diagnostics. The … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care, Health Care: Costs, Health Care: Electronic Health Records, Health Care: Health Insurance, Health Care: Home Health Care, Health Care: Hospitals, Health Care: Medical Devices, Health Care: Reform, Health Care: Technology, Mobile Health, Mobile Health: Diagnostics, Mobile Health: NFC, Mobile Health: RFID, Mobile Health: Telemedicine
Tagged NFC diagnostics
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More strokes, dementia, Parkinson’s, epilepsy on the way because of aging population say neurologists
As the population ages, neurologists will be challenged by a growing population of patients with stroke, dementia, Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy. The expected increase in these and other age-related neurologic disorders is among the trends that Loyola University Health System … Continue reading
Posted in Alzheimer's, Brain, Brain Fitness, Cognitive Impairment, Dementia, Elder Care, Epilepsy, Health Care, Health Care: Costs, Health Care: Disparities, Health Care: Health Insurance, Health Care: Home Health Care, Health Care: Reform
Tagged José Biller and Dr. Michael J. Schneck, The Future of Neurology
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