American Academy of Ophthalmology announces outstanding humanitarian service award recipients
...' clinical problems for consultation. Working with private funds, Dr Helveston has started programs in Cuba, Romania, India, Albania and the Dominican Republic. To date, more than 800 consults have been completed. In 2002, Dr. Helveston moved Cyber-Sight to ORBIS to allow further expansion. The goal is to ha...Wireless technology may help doctors treat patients
...aws and regulations are strict about how patients' private medical information can be transmitted. "One of the problems when you go wireless is that it gets a little easier for people from outside to hack in," Schuler said. "So we talked with Dr. Aungst about how to create a wireless secure acute pain manag...Many low income Medicare beneficiaries will still face high drug bills under proposals in Congress
.... More so than other income groups, they depend on private Medicare+Choice plans for their drug coverage--a highly unstable source of coverage in recent years due to plan withdrawals, rising cost-sharing, and shrinking benefits....Medicare+Choice enrollees face continued cost increases in 2003, costs have doubled since 1999
...ts averaged $976. "As Congress debates the role of private plans in the future of the Medicare program, it should consider the eroding financial protection experienced under Medicare+Choice," said Gold. Sicker Medicare+Choice enrollees face even higher cost burdens. Those in poor health will spend about thre...Diagnosing chronic fatigue? Check for sinusitis
... of a patient's medical evaluation." Through his private internal medicine practice, Chester questioned 297 patients, noting unexplained chronic fatigue in 22%, unexplained chronic pain in 11%, and both in 9%. While these numbers are consistent with previous studies, Chester observed an unusual connection...Researchers link the plaques and tangles of Alzheimer's disease
...illions of Americans with Alzheimer's. The largest private funder of Alzheimer research in the United States, the Association has committed nearly $140 million toward research into the disease....WHO leader backs call to action for child survival programmes
...hnical experts, professional associations, and the private sector. One important part of leadership is setting the direction, mobilising the forces, and monitoring progress. WHO will play its leadership role and use the opportunity of regular meetings on child survival to monitor progress and hold the broade...Study: Hurricane Floyd boosted long-term use of N.C. emergency rooms, outpatient services
...h services, he said. Findings are relevant to both private and public payers of health services because of the insight we get about how natural disasters affect health care service use and costs. "Of particular importance is that we looked at use and costs for an extended period after Hurricane Floyd, and id...Study gauges patient opinions in L.A. County
...findings are comparable to those for patients with private insurance. Adult diabetes patients received high ...el times greater than one hour. Many patients with private physicians or with employer-sponsored health plans often travel the same amount of time to reach a h...Trends in private Medicare+Choice plans provide warnings for Medicare debate
...proposals that would shift more beneficiaries into private insurance plans, legislators may first want to exa...ans do not participate in many regions. Attracting private plans to some regions, particularly rural areas, has been difficult because of the small number of h...To contain health care costs, US must reduce error, modernize administration
...y of health services under Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance. Investment in research on what works to improve care, eliminate waste and ineffective care, and promote greater efficiency, including use of information technology, team work, and improved care processes. The hearing, entitled, "Health ...U-M study: Physicians perceive health care cost savings line pockets of insurance companies
...ould benefit from the savings. Physicians in small private practices were more likely to say savings would go to the insurance companies. When managed care, with its emphasis on preventative medicine, boomed in the 1980s, it was intended to help control costs of medical care, which had skyrocketed in recent ...Study: Transferred patients hurt big hospitals' rankings
...ankings to negotiate payment rates with public and private insurers, to attract doctors and staff, and to convince potential patients to choose them. "If you're not in the top 10, top 100, best-of-the-best list, there's a perception that there's something wrong," Rosenberg says, adding that UMHS touts its t...Cancer patients in India cheated of appropriate care
...rranted and ineffectual treatments at the hands of private practitioners. The letter goes on to outline how aspects of appropriate care in developed countries palliative care, counselling, rehabilitation, are rarely offered. While a culture of promoting lucrative but inappropriate treatments prevails, he ar...Graduation may be hazardous to your health
...ults: Extending eligibility for dependents under private coverage through age 23 could cover 500,000 to 1 million unmarried, dependent young adults. Extending eligibility for Medicaid/CHIP coverage to age 23 could cover 2.6 million uninsured young adults ages 19 to 23 with incomes under 100 percent of po...Eunice Park named a 2003 Hartford Doctoral Fellow
.... Hartford Foundation, Inc., of New York City is a private philanthropy established in 1929 by John A. Hartford, who was a chief executive of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company. The Doctoral Fellows program is one of five programs funded under the Hartford Strengthening Geriatric Social Work Initiativ...Nine chosen to receive funding for geriatric social work research
...A. Hartford Foundation, Inc. of New York City is a private philanthropy established in 1929 by John A. Hartford, who was a chief executive of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company. Nearly all of the Foundation's grants are directed to its Aging and Health Program, which addresses two major areas: Academi...Americans pay more for health care but receive less in return
...level for the OECD nations was 8 percent. American private spending per capita on health care was $2,580, whi...States financed 56 percent of its health care from private sources, which was the greatest amount of the OECD countries. According to the study, public financi...Racial, economic disparities seen in kids' vision care
...o have seen a vision specialist than children with private health insurance or children with no insurance. Th...ses than black or Hispanic children with public or private insurance. Higher family income was associated with an increase in the likelihood of having correc...Judging performance impact of IT: Don't overlook actual usage, says O.R. study
...e hospitals included in the study are members of a private health system. The system is a national organization with member hospitals in various markets across the US. The member organizations are suburban, mid-sized hospitals with over 4,000 combined beds, 20,000 employees, and annual operating revenues of ...