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Massachusetts residents have broader health insurance coverage, greater access to primary care

In 2006, Massachusetts was on the same brink that the entire nation is on today: the brink of expanding health insurance to cover far more people than before, through government-driven, market-based reform.

13 Dec 2013

Psychiatrists increasingly refuse to accept private insurance as payment

Access to mental health care has become a prominent issue in Congress following mass shootings around the country. But a new study in JAMA Psychiatry, led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College, suggests that unless those in need of help have deep pockets, they might have a hard time finding a psychiatrist that will provide the needed services.

13 Dec 2013

Study: Majority of obese pediatric patients satisfied with telehealth appointment

For youth dealing with obesity who need extra help losing weight, experts suggest a multidisciplinary approach in which care is provided by several health specialists.

12 Dec 2013

New guidelines to manage heart failure in children

Heart failure in children is an important cause of childhood health problems and death. The Children's Heart Failure Study Group of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society, in collaboration with the Canadian Pediatric Cardiology Association, has developed new guidelines to assist practitioners in primary care and emergency departments to recognize and successfully manage heart failure in children with undiagnosed heart disease and symptoms of possible heart failure.

12 Dec 2013

New guidelines developed to manage heart failure in children with undiagnosed heart disease

12 Dec 2013

Cost and quality: Consumers continue to face obstacles

A new report finds that states generally do a poor job in communicating physician quality ratings to consumers while a Gallup poll finds that cost issues continue to be a reason some people delay care.

10 Dec 2013

First Edition: December 10, 2103

Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about how health law advocates are developing new messaging strategies.

10 Dec 2013

Research roundup: 'Substantial' Medicare savings from avoiding ERs; new ways for primary care; trends in kids' fast food consumption

Some Medicare beneficiaries who place 911 calls to request an ambulance might safely be cared for in settings other than the emergency department at lower cost. Using 2005–09 Medicare claims data and a validated algorithm, we estimated that 12.9–16.2 percent of Medicare-covered 911 emergency medical services transports involved conditions that were probably nonemergent or primary care treatable.

9 Dec 2013

State highlights: S.C. Medicaid director touts lower spending; La. targets docs who steer patients into some managed care plans; Texas set to boost Medicaid payments

South Carolina's Medicaid director says his agency is on track to spend about $250 million less this fiscal year than allotted in the state budget. Director Tony Keck told a Senate panel on Wednesday the Department of Health and Human Services is projected to spend $6.2 billion in state and federal money (Adcox, 12/4).

6 Dec 2013

IDSA released new guideline for vaccination of immunocompromised hosts

A new guideline released Thursday by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) notes that most people with compromised immune systems are especially vulnerable to illness and should receive the flu shot and other vaccinations.

5 Dec 2013

Lung cancer is costliest cancer in European Union

The total cost of cancer care across the European Union was an estimated € 126 billion in 2009, with lung cancer having the highest cost, at 15% of the total.

4 Dec 2013

Appearance of sickness may have limited value in diagnosis of actual state of health

Physicians have long been taught that a physical examination is not complete without an assessment of whether a patient appears to be acutely or chronically ill.

4 Dec 2013

PES' ESRD Prevention Program effectively identifies patients with early stage renal disease

Patient Engagement Systems, a nationally recognized leader in developing technology to identify, and monitor individuals with chronic kidney disease, today introduced the Patient Engagement Systems' ESRD Prevention Program which uses proprietary technology including automated physician-patient engagement, analytics, and decision support tools to identify patients with undiagnosed chronic kidney disease and tools to monitor them in order to prevent or delay the progression to ESRD.

3 Dec 2013

New multinational survey to investigate early conversations between physicians and T2D people

Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly and Company today announced the launch of the largest multinational survey to investigate early conversations between physicians and people living with Type 2 Diabetes. The survey was developed in partnership with the International Diabetes Federation and will include more than 10,000 people with T2D and more than 6,500 treating-physicians across 26 countries worldwide

2 Dec 2013

New grants to tackle NHS problems, prevent needless admissions of elderly to A&E

Just how the elderly can be prevented from needlessly being referred to A&E along with how the NHS can improve the transfer of research-based evidence to the frontline is to be examined by academics from Warwick Business School.

30 Nov 2013

Poor oral hygiene, excess sugar consumption linked to heart disease

The association between poor oral health and increased risk of cardiovascular disease should make the reduction of sugars such as those contained in junk food, particularly fizzy drinks, an important health policy target, say experts writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.

28 Nov 2013

Walk-in clinics staffed by nurses can reduce health care costs, says URI professor

People who don't have health insurance are often forced to seek treatment at hospital emergency rooms for colds, body aches and other routine illnesses. Those visits cost patients, hospitals and taxpayers millions of dollars every year.

28 Nov 2013

Genetics and cardiovascular drugs: an interview with Nancy Lurker, CEO of PDI and Paul Kinnon, CEO of Transgenomic, Inc.

People inherit different versions of any particular gene, and some genes affect how patients process and metabolize medicines. This especially holds true for people with cardiovascular (CV) disease. They may be fast, slow or non-metabolizers and might also react badly (with serious adverse events) to certain drug therapies or not at all.

27 Nov 2013

Asthma patients ‘too accepting of symptoms’

Researchers from the UK report that patients with asthma continue to overestimate their asthma control, and many accept symptoms as the norm.

26 Nov 2013

Auditory processing disorder diagnosis: an interview with Dr Doris-Eva Bamiou, UCL Ear Institute

It is a listening or hearing disorder, which is due to the brain’s defective analysis of sounds, so that individuals who are affected with this disorder cannot make sense of what they hear.

26 Nov 2013

Primary Care News and Research

Latest Primary Care News and Research

Massachusetts residents have broader health insurance coverage, greater access to primary care

Psychiatrists increasingly refuse to accept private insurance as payment

Study: Majority of obese pediatric patients satisfied with telehealth appointment

New guidelines to manage heart failure in children

New guidelines developed to manage heart failure in children with undiagnosed heart disease

Cost and quality: Consumers continue to face obstacles

First Edition: December 10, 2103

Research roundup: 'Substantial' Medicare savings from avoiding ERs; new ways for primary care; trends in kids' fast food consumption

State highlights: S.C. Medicaid director touts lower spending; La. targets docs who steer patients into some managed care plans; Texas set to boost Medicaid payments

IDSA released new guideline for vaccination of immunocompromised hosts

Lung cancer is costliest cancer in European Union

Appearance of sickness may have limited value in diagnosis of actual state of health

PES' ESRD Prevention Program effectively identifies patients with early stage renal disease

New multinational survey to investigate early conversations between physicians and T2D people

New grants to tackle NHS problems, prevent needless admissions of elderly to A&E

Poor oral hygiene, excess sugar consumption linked to heart disease

Walk-in clinics staffed by nurses can reduce health care costs, says URI professor

Genetics and cardiovascular drugs: an interview with Nancy Lurker, CEO of PDI and Paul Kinnon, CEO of Transgenomic, Inc.

Asthma patients ‘too accepting of symptoms’

Auditory processing disorder diagnosis: an interview with Dr Doris-Eva Bamiou, UCL Ear Institute

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