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Health system makes cutting-edge telemedicine affordable
With the right kind of equipment, can a video conference between an ambulance and an on-call neurologist deliver the same stroke assessment results as at the bedside in the emergency room? The University of Virginia Health System, after over one year of research, is poised to find out. Previously, AMA Wire® brought you the theory behind the University of Virginia (UVA) Health System’s research efforts to bring telemedicine to the ambulance so they can improve care for patients who are experiencing a stroke. We recently caught up with the UVA team to find out that their telestroke model iTreat is now in action. Andre...
Source: AMA Wire - March 25, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news

How to help patients make heart health changes: Q&A with Dr. Rakotz
Dietary and lifestyle changes are difficult to make. Once habits are formed, the effort that is required to change is often overwhelming for both patients and physicians. This week, Michael Rakotz, MD, director of chronic disease prevention with the AMA’s Improving Health Outcomes initiative, provides guidance from his own experience as a primary care physician on approaching heart healthy changes with patients. AMA Wire®: In our Twitter poll, the public thought 2:1 that exercise would benefit their heart health more than dietary changes. Why is that? Dr. Rakotz: It’s hard to know for sure why people voted this w...
Source: AMA Wire - September 29, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: amamod Source Type: news

Is 120 mm Hg the new BP target? What headlines aren’t telling you
The results of the SPRINT trial are in, and you’ve probably heard that making 120 mm Hg the new blood pressure target helped lower mortality rates. Yet the study outcomes apply only to a specific subset of patients with hypertension. See whether or not your patients may fit into this category. In the much-anticipated results of the SPRINT trial, the relative risk of death from cardiovascular causes was 43 percent lower for patients receiving more intensive treatment for a 120 mm Hg target versus those who received standard treatment for a 140 mm Hg target. While these results were unexpected and are noteworthy, wh...
Source: AMA Wire - November 11, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: amamod Source Type: news

Top 9 takeaways from heart health tweet chat
How can physicians partner with their patients to ensure a healthy heart environment? The AMA hosted a vibrant tweet chat on World Heart Day Tuesday to explore answers to this question. Primary care physician Michael Rakotz, MD, sat down with leading cardiologist Clyde Yancy, MD, as his guest. Dr. Yancy is past president of the American Heart Association (AHA) and current chief of the Division of Medicine-Cardiology and Magerstadt Professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. And Dr. Rakotz is director of chronic disease prevention with the AMA’s Improving Health Outcomes initiative. The two d...
Source: AMA Wire - September 30, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: amamod Source Type: news