Nasco Healthcare Releases New 2017-2018 Healthcare Catalog
Fort Atkinson, WI - The 2017-2018 Healthcare catalog, featuring Life/form® and Simulaids highly specialized skills trainers, manikins, and simulators for Nursing and Medical, EMS, Fire, and Rescue, is now available from Nasco Healthcare in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin and Saugerties, New York.
The 252-page catalog includes Nasco Healthcare’s Life/form® and Simulaids lines, as well as many other teaching aids and models of outstanding quality. The catalog’s major emphasis is to provide more effective training tools for educators to train their students, who are facing an increasingly demanding work environment that re...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - April 28, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Nasco Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
HIV Care Providers ’ Communication with Patients About Safer Conception for People Living with HIV in Tanzania
CONCLUSIONSGuidance on safer-conception and safe-pregnancy counseling for women and men living with HIV in Tanzania needs to be updated. It is critical that providers be trained in safe pregnancy and safer conception for HIV-affected couples, and that HIV and sexual and reproductive health services be integrated, so that HIV-positive patients and their partners are able to plan their pregnancies and to receive the care they need to manage their health and their pregnancies. (Source: The Guttmacher Institute)
Source: The Guttmacher Institute - April 20, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Guttmacher Source Type: news
Good doctor-patient communication boosts outcomes
Heart patients with good interaction 41% less likely to go to A&E Related items fromOnMedica Atrial fibrillation poses greater risk for women than men Modifying cardiovascular risks and lipid modification Medication non-adherence Difficult patients really are harder to diagnose Half of patients delay seeking help for heart attacks (Source: OnMedica Latest News)
Source: OnMedica Latest News - April 4, 2017 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Scientists Invented A Headband That Could Help Us Better Understand Each Other
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Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - March 24, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Scientists Invented A Headband That Could Help Us Better Understand Each Other
This reporting is brought to you by HuffPost’s health and science platform, The Scope. Like us on Facebook and Twitter and tell us your story: scopestories@huffingtonpost.com.
Sarah DiGiulio is The Huffington Post’s sleep reporter. You can contact her at sarah.digiulio@huffingtonpost.com.
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Source: Science - The Huffington Post - March 24, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: news
UC Health Denver pilots'Facebook feed' for patient communication in its ER
UC Health in Denver tested CareLoop ’s real-time social feed of information and messages and found that 96 percent of patients responded well to the experience. (Source: mobihealthnews)
Source: mobihealthnews - March 24, 2017 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
UCHealth Denver pilots'Facebook feed' for patient communication in its ER
UCHealth in Denver tested CareLoop ’s real-time social feed of information and messages and found that 96 percent of patients responded well to the experience. (Source: mobihealthnews)
Source: mobihealthnews - March 24, 2017 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Successful endodontics through pinpoint planning and latest generation product solutions
Endodontics fully conceived and matched from reliable diagnosis through ergonomic treatment to final restoration: this has been made possible by Dentsply Sirona Endodontics. The new 3D Endo ™ Software has been developed this year jointly with the Imaging business unit; new advanced technologies have been brought to files and to the X-Smart IQ™ endodontic motor and, finally, “R2C™ - The Root to Crown Solution”, is now being implemented together with Dentsply Sirona Restor ative. On top of this, a new communication campaign dedicated to dentists enhances Dentsply Sirona Endodontics position as the trusted partner f...
Source: Dental Technology Blog - March 23, 2017 Category: Dentistry Source Type: news
OmniSYS Acquires Leading Pharmacy Technology Provider, voiceTech
OmniSYS acquires voiceTech, a leading patient communication and adherence company. The Fusion-Rx platform complements the existing suite of solutions that help improve the health of healthcare.(PRWeb March 02, 2017)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2017/03/prweb14116212.htm (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - March 3, 2017 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Ashfield emphasises patient focus with the implementation of Salesforce Health Cloud
With expertise in designing and delivering a wide range of patient support programmes, Ashfield has been supporting pharmaceutical and healthcare companies for over 15 years across a large range of therapeutic areas. With Health Cloud, Ashfield is centralising all patient information in one place, ensuring that caregivers and healthcare providers get a complete view of each patient and their unique needs. As a result, all parties will be able to provide more personalised care.
Anita Osborn, UK Patient Services Director at Ashfield, commented: “Health Cloud is a fantastic enhancement to our current patient support program...
Source: Ashfield Healthcare News - March 1, 2017 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Josee Leach Tags: Ashfield Source Type: news
Study reveals proven ways to improve doctor-patient communication
(SAGE) A hospital-wide communication training program, outlining best practices for doctors to follow in interactions with patients, improved patients' perception of doctor communication by 9 percent, according to new research. Out today in the American Journal of Medical Quality (SAGE Publishing journal), the study details the largest known experiment of its kind and describes training that can easily be implemented at other hospitals and institutions. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - February 23, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Treatment Center Intego: optimally designed for preventive care and ready for the future
Feb 22, 2017At the 2017 Chicago Midwinter Meeting, Dentsply Sirona presents the integration of two proven solutions. The Cavitron Ultrasonic Scaling Technology is now fully integrated in the Intego Treatment Centers.Charlotte. Professional teeth cleaning and preventive care are an integral service offered by dental practices. In order to help practitioners to best set up their treatment rooms, Dentsply Sirona has expanded its existing Treatment Centers product range with an integrated preventive care concept. This summer, the Cavitron built-in ultrasonic scaler will be available with the Intego line of Treatment Cente...
Source: Dental Technology Blog - February 22, 2017 Category: Dentistry Source Type: news
Difficult Doctors, Difficult Patients: Building Empathy
Effective doctor-patient communication facilitates the therapeutic relationship, promotes patient physical and mental health, and improves physician satisfaction. Methods of teaching effective communication use a range of techniques, typically combining didactic instruction with simulated communication encounters and reflective discussion. Rarely are patients and physicians exposed to these instructions as colearners. The evidence for the utility of graphic stories, comics, and cartoons to improve patient comprehension and self-regulation is small but encouraging. The authors describe the use of graphic medicine as a teach...
Source: Society for Participatory Medicine - February 14, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Nanette Mattox Tags: Newsletter bibliotherapy clinician education comics in education consumer health information doctor-patient relations communication Graphic medicine informed consent Patient Communication pictorial work Source Type: news
Difficult Doctors, Difficult Patients: a Comic for Empathy-Building
People usually don’t have courses in school on empathy: how to be compassionate towards each other. There are some professions, however, where empathy is part of the formal learning process — with health care professionals leading the way, learning how to listen and how to consider the patient’s perspective. This is critical for any context in which doctors and patients need to communicate, but even more so when they seek to collaborate.
But don’t doctors and nurses deserve empathy, too? At the University of Michigan, this was the question we faced: How could we help patients and clinicians find a way towards e...
Source: Society for Participatory Medicine - February 14, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Nanette Mattox Tags: Newsletter bibliotherapy clinician education comics in education consumer health information doctor-patient relations communication Graphic medicine informed consent Patient Communication pictorial work Source Type: news
JACR Redefines Radiology Health Care Delivery in Tandem With Patients
In a first, a special issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR®) explores radiology patient engagement from the patient perspective. Original articles provide valuable insights to help radiologists make the care they provide more patient-centered.
“This issue is a first for the Journal of the American College of Radiology: Patients, caregivers and advocates serve as co-authors or reviewers, in other words, co-producers of meaningful content,” said James V. Rawson, MD, FACR, chair of the American College of Radiology (ACR) Commission on Patient- and Family-Centered Care. “Radiologists ar...
Source: Society for Participatory Medicine - February 14, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Nanette Mattox Tags: Newsletter Source Type: news
