Making sense of value-based healthcare and how medtech companies should respond
This study showed tremendous benefit in terms of reduced re-hospitalizations, reduced ER visits, and an almost million-dollar savings in cost as a result of those reductions. This was ased solely on a telemedicine intervention in patients who had just been discharged.
So I think telemedicine will be used to help manage the post-acute space increasingly to provide better care, but also to save money. That’s going to be critical, obviously, in the new healthcare world.
SCOTT: Dan, before we move on to a couple of these other programs that fit under this bundling umbrella, anything else to add that you think is worthy of me...
Source: Mass Device - July 19, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: MassDevice Tags: Blog Dorsata medsider Source Type: news
Can Doctors Learn to Perform Abortions Without Doing One?Can Doctors Learn to Perform Abortions Without Doing One?
Abortion is one of the more common procedures performed in the U.S., more common even than appendectomy. But as clinics in Texas close, finding a place in the state where medical residents training to be OB-GYNs can learn to do abortions is getting harder. Kaiser Health News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - June 22, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Ob/Gyn & Women ' s Health News Source Type: news
Three decades beat as one: 30 years of heart transplants
Tina Medina and her son Luke
Tina Medina was not a sickly child, yet she grew up knowing something was physically wrong.
She had difficulty keeping up with the other kids in her sixth-grade class and couldn’t run without becoming breathless. Local physicians near her home in Moriah, New York, shrugged it off as asthma — until Tina’s heart stopped twice during a routine appendectomy. “I was told I had a severe heart condition and needed to see a cardiologist right away,” she says.
At 15, Tina was diagnosed with restrictive cardiomyopathy, a rare type of cardiomyopathy that causes the heart muscle to become stiff,...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - June 13, 2016 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Emily Williams Tags: Diseases & Conditions Our Patients’ Stories Research and Innovation cardiac surgery cardiomyopathy congential heart defect Department of Cardiac Surgery Dr. Elizabeth Blume Dr. John Mayer ECMO Heart Center heart transplant Heart Source Type: news
What Causes Pelvic Pain?
Discussion
Appendicitis results from a closed loop obstruction of a blind-ending tubular structure arising from the cecum. It is a common cause of abdominal pain. It is the most frequent condition leading to emergent abdominal surgery in pediatrics. The combination of obstruction, edema, bacterial overgrowth, increased inflammatory process and increased intraluminal pressure leads to abdominal pain and possibly perforation. Appendicitis occurs in all age groups but is rare in neonates. The peak age is 6-10 years old.
Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is an inflammatory disease of the uterus, fallopian tubes and adjacent p...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - May 9, 2016 Category: Pediatrics Authors: pediatriceducationmin Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Ghana: Seven Deadliest Emergency General Surgeries
[Ghanaian Chronicle] Seven types of operations, including appendectomy and gall bladder removal, account for four out of five emergency general-surgery deaths in the United States, a new study reports. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 5, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Preventing Medication Errors: Lessons From a Patient
A Nurse Aide, an Emergency Room Clerk, and a Patient
I have great appreciation for doctors and nurses, hospitals, and patients. In high school I worked as a nurse aide in a convalescent home. I fed, dressed, and showered elderly patients, many of them immobile. I shaved gentlemen's facial stubble and polished ladies' fingernails. In college and in graduate school, I worked as an emergency room clerk. I witnessed a lot, including amazing doctors and nurses caring for patients and saving lives. I have also been a patient. First, when I had an appendectomy at age eight and then when I gave natural childbirth twice. All were...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 2, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Appendectomy and Colectomy Risk in Ulcerative ColitisAppendectomy and Colectomy Risk in Ulcerative Colitis
Appendectomy does not decrease, and may increase, the risk of colectomy in patients with ulcerative colitis (UC), according to a retrospective study and meta-analysis. Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape General Surgery Headlines)
Source: Medscape General Surgery Headlines - April 30, 2016 Category: Surgery Tags: Gastroenterology News Source Type: news
The 7 deadliest emergency general surgeries
Dennis Thompson, HealthDay News Seven operations, including appendectomy and gall bladder removal, account for four out of five emergency general-surgery deaths in the United States. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - April 27, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The 7 Deadliest Emergency General Surgeries
WEDNESDAY, April 27, 2016 -- Seven types of operations, including appendectomy and gall bladder removal, account for four out of five emergency general-surgery deaths in the United States, a new study reports.
The procedures are: partial removal of... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - April 27, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Mild Appendicitis Complication Rates Similar for Surgery, Antibiotics
FRIDAY, March 25, 2016 -- Antibiotics can be used to treat mild appendicitis, but the condition returns in some patients who receive the drugs, researchers report.
Surgical removal of the appendix (appendectomy) has long been the standard treatment... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - March 25, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
HIV not a risk factor for postappendectomy complications
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. – Patients who have HIV are at no greater risk of complications from appendectomy than are non-HIV patients according to an analysis of cases in a national surgical database... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - February 26, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Nathan’s wild ride: An appendectomy, two transplants and the journey ahead
Nathan, pre-transplant, during his Make-A-Wish trip to the San Diego Zoo
When the phone rang at the Natale family home in Loudonville, New York, during the early morning hours of Jan. 12, 2013, Nathan Natale knew exactly what it meant.
“My little sister had someone sleeping over. And I was like, ‘hello parents of friend, we gotta go.’”
The phone call was from Boston Children’s Hospital. A donor match had been found. The Natales quickly packed, hopped in the car and began the three-hour journey to the hospital for Nathan’s kidney and intestine transplant. But Nathan’s transplant journey didn’t begin here. It...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - January 18, 2016 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Emily Williams Tags: Diseases & Conditions Our Patients’ Stories dialysis intestinal transplant kidney transplant Pediatric Transplant Center (PTC) Source Type: news
Surgery Cost Transparency
SALT LAKE CITY. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- When you go to the hardware store to buy a lawnmower, you’ve probably done research on cost, features, ease of use and more. When you go into surgery, you most likely have none of that information and none of those choices. So a surgeon in Utah gave appendectomy patients and their families information, control and changed what was happening in the OR. (Source: Medical Headlines From Ivanhoe.com)
Source: Medical Headlines From Ivanhoe.com - December 21, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
For Kids with Uncomplicated Appendicitis, Let Families Choose the Treatment? (FREE)
By Kelly Young
Edited by Susan Sadoughi, MD, and Richard Saitz, MD, MPH, FACP, FASAM
Giving families the choice to treat their child's uncomplicated appendicitis nonoperatively rather than with immediate appendectomy may be an … (Source: Physician's First Watch current issue)
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - December 17, 2015 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
