VHA to measure impact of Bridge barcode patient safety system
...ce president at VHA. "To facilitate participation, incentives will be offered to a limited number of VHA members that purchase MedPoint software in time to participate in the study." Bridge is a California-based information technology (IT) firm that has pioneered the use of barcode technology to promote patient...100m a year could improve diabetes care
...l service framework for diabetes should create new incentives and mechanisms to adopt these improved standards, add the authors. Although many claims are made on these additional resources, it seems reasonable that one guiding principle should be to allocate funds to interventions of proved effectiveness and co...Selling a kidney does not benefit the seller
...of organs for transplantation, providing financial incentives to donate is often proposed or justified as a way ...ies have consented to donate. Providing financial incentives such as payment for funeral expenses has been proposed as a way to increase the supply of organs. I...Transplantation Society reiterates position against selling organs
...e well before some groups suggested that financial incentives for donors be considered as a means to help alleviate the critical shortage of organs and before a recent spate of news accounts of black markets in Third World countries, which make it appear such practices are becoming more common. "Since arriving...Telemedicine could offer fewer follow-up tests and greater satisfaction for patients
...dent on factors such as demand by patients, costs, incentives for general practitioners to allocate additional time to this activity, and the attitudes of staff working in general practice and hospital settings." In an accompanying Commentary (p 1957), Eivind Rinde from Telenor Research, Tromso, Norway, conclud...Telemedicine could offer fewer follow-up tests and greater satisfaction for patients
...dent on factors such as demand by patients, costs, incentives for general practitioners to allocate additional time to this activity, and the attitudes of staff working in general practice and hospital settings....NIAID teams with Wyeth on HIV/AIDS vaccine
...mpson. This novel NIAID research program provides incentives for moving promising HIV/AIDS vaccines from the laboratory to human trials by fostering partnerships between academic research centers and private industry. HIV/AIDS vaccine candidates must travel a long pipeline from idea to reality, says NIAID Di...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet
...doctors to provide preventive services. Financial incentives for patients, such as reducing or eliminating copayments, also helped increase use of immunization and cancer screenings. Teaching patients and clinicians was the least effective technique studied....HMO patients more likely to get health counseling, preventive services
...that "physicians responded ethically to capitation incentives by treating patients consistently, despite varying... emphasized. However this study shows that payment incentives under managed care are also prompting physicians to encourage more preventive health behaviors that ...Patient trust is not harmed when HMOs pay doctors a bonus for holding down costs
.... "We found that learning about cost containment incentives did not reduce people's trust either in their doct... trust questions was repeated. Disclosure of the incentives was associated with a 1.4 percent increase in average physician trust among members of the capitated...Sky-is-the-limit challenges have strongest effect on the heart
...h. When given an unfixed challenge, accompanied by incentives like money or status, people will push themselves ...rk as hard as they chose and who had the strongest incentives had the greatest cardiovascular responses, the researchers found....Doctors steer sick patients away from capitated HMOs
...enced physicians advice, the influence of economic incentives was less clear. Physicians who had more of their income derived from capitated plans, were no more likely to guide sicker patients away from these plans than those who received less of their salary through capitated plans. While physicians under capi...West meets East - WHO tuberculosis treatment
...ionally and financially. A complex web of perverse incentives means organisational changes are difficult to initiate and sustain....Patent rights stimulate R&D, but fall short in helping poor countries obtain lifesaving drugs
...does not directly address the problem of providing incentives for research and development of drugs to treat diseases common in developing countries. "In fact, differential pricing can be applied only with drugs that can be marketed to rich and poor countries, so the cost of R &D can be borne by consumers in r...UCSF policy center presents Congress with road map for HIV vaccine development
...ented both direct funding options and market based incentives in order to take advantage of the strengths and to harness the energies of both the public and private sectors," said monograph co-author, Stephen F. Morin, PhD, associate adjunct professor of medicine and director of the AIDS Policy Research Center ......e wellness program that offers employees financial incentives to participate. The college's goal: improve quality of life, reduce health care costs and have happier and healthier employees. Employees are encouraged to create a personal wellness curriculum designed to meet individual needs. They chose from 8...Nursing profession must be reinvented to ease personnel shortages, according to UCSF report
...r financial rewards for experienced RNs, financial incentives for RNs to complete further education, and adequate sick leave. Unions representing RNs should place greater emphasis on career development and nurses' participation in the management of organizations in which they work. The system of nursing educat...Groups urge Bush: rethink natural hazards approach
...lities. The other recommendations are to develop incentives for communities and states to implement mitigation measures; improve the timeliness and reliability of hazard detection and warnings; build consideration of hazards into every relevant federal government decision; create partnerships among governm...European commission grants "orphan" status for new acute myeloid leukaemia treatment
...but companies that sponsor orphan products receive incentives for bringing these products to the market and to the patient. Such incentives include the possibility of protocol assistance from the EMEA and fee reductions for all types of cen...'Unheralded safety net' providing state health practitioners for under-served areas
...t provide scholarships, loan forgiveness plans and incentives to doctors and others to practice in medically und...iding loans, eight offering other direct financial incentives and five that support residents. The number of such programs doubled between 1990 and 1996. Comm...