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When Patients Manage Doctors
People who suffer from multiple chronic illnesses often find they must take charge of managing health-care providers, especially when instructions and prescriptions conflict.
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Are male or female doctors better for patients?
A new study finds hospital patients treated by women doctors did better when it came to two important health outcomes
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Tips for Managing Growth: Put the Patient First
Dr. Timothy Ihrig, Medical Director of Palliative Care at the Trinity Regional Medical Center within the Unity Point Heath System, offers advice on how to ov...
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Family Doctors Who Do More, Save More
A study suggests that coordinated care, led by a family doctor who is judicious about referring patients to specialists, leads to cost savings.
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Doctors Want To Learn More About Treating Transgender Patients, Survey Shows
Transgender patients, meanwhile, have serious complaints with the care they receive.
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Patients are not customers. Here are 6 reasons why.
The patient is a person, not a customer. We must approach each patient with humanity, not customer service.
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Patients much likelier to choose hospital that employs their doctor
When patients have to go to the hospital, they're likely to choose a facility that employs their doctor, a new study suggests. The study, which finds that patients of independent doctors often choose low-cost and high-quality hospitals, hints that not all organizations are successfully integrating care.
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Should patients be able to record their surgeries?
Patients across the country are seeking to push "record" in doctors' offices and operating rooms to document instructions and also catch malpractice.
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Thoughts on fixing the patient waiting game
Our columnist considers what the new culture of technology-enabled instant gratification means for patient satisfaction. Can providers better leverage those same technologies to improve practice workflows and minimize patient wait times?
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Patient-centered care is all the rage. But why are so few patients receiving it?
You would think that healthcare should be all about the patient, right? But in fact, it's long been recognized that patients often are treated like an after-thought by our health care system. Whether it is overly complex billing systems, lack of transparency in quality and cost, fragmented and uncoordinated care, or hurried, harried and inattentive clinicians, our healthcare system seems to be more about meeting the needs of everyone but the patient.
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Choose the Right Care for Your Condition
As the health industry adds more treatment options, you may wonder which care type is the most appropriate for a certain health concern.
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4 Steps to Achieve Patient Engagement With Technology
With increasingly powerful digital technologies, health care systems now have the means to deliver meaningful patient engagement.
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Five ways technology can increase patient compliance
The key to helping patients adhere to treatment plans is to make it easy for them to do so, which is why Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pennsylvania, is exploring how the tools patients use i
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ER nurses are leaving. Patient satisfaction is a major reason why.
Experienced ER nurses leave because their work environment sucks.
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How physician IT use would be assessed under MACRA
Scoring approach would encourage patient engagement, security, information exchange.
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3 Ways Obamacare Is Changing How A Hospital Cares For Patients
For the first time, doctors have a financial incentive to keep patients out of the hospital. That's leading to some interesting changes.
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Rude surgeons may put patients at risk, study finds
New research finds that when doctors behave badly, patients may suffer in more ways than one
