Potential to computer-generated medical records is the ability to retain all or most of the patient records for 5 and/or more years, which may seem unwieldy, but it makes the task feasible, while also increasing the efficiency for many other health information management processes. Huge medical centers are generating more than 100,000 orders a week. Computers-generated medical records heal in retrieving demographic information and consultants’ reports, as well as laboratory, radiology, and other test results. It helps in reducing costs,
April 19, 2022
Problem 1: Too Much Unnecessary Care Overuse and unnecessary care accounts for anywhere from one-third to one-half of all health care costs, which equal hundreds of billions of dollars, in addition to the half-a-trillion per year experts attribute to lost productivity and disability.Early elective deliveries are unnecessary, according to advice by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, that has been repeated for more than 30 years (that’s not a typo – 30 years), a point reinforced today at a press
March 19, 2022
Support groups at BID-Plymouth The Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Plymouth, 275 Sandwich St. in Plymouth (formerly the Jordan Hospital), offers numerous support groups on a regular basis. Visit www.bidplymouth.org/calendar or call 508-746-2000 for details. Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. There are no dues or
October 19, 2021
Quality care is providing the right care at the right time in the right place.In order to provide quality care, one needs to understand that quality care comes when each person is treated the same, regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation and disability. Far too often, patient care fails to meet the standard of diverse care. Poor quality generally takes the form of underuse and misuse of patient information because of their race or ethnicity. As a concept, diversity
October 19, 2020
A little-discussed side effect of the ObamaCare repeal effort could be losing gains that community health centers — a lifeline for the nation’s most vulnerable — have made.Republicans’ vow to gut President Obama’s signature domestic achievement has thrust all facets of the health system into uncertainty — and community health centers are no different. Nearly 25 million people receive care through the nonprofit groups, and in interviews, nearly a dozen state community health associations expressed concerns over whether advances under
October 19, 2020
I spent a recent afternoon reviewing some of my columns from 2012.Clearly the biggest issue facing all healthcare providers, both rural and urban, this year 2013 and into the next decade or longer is the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.There are still a lot of questions about the rollout, particularly as they relate to Medicare/Medicaid reimbursements and the development of state-and federally sponsored healthcare exchanges.With that in mind, it’s easy to forget that rural
October 19, 2020
When we set out to compile our annual list of global health issues to watch this year, it seemed like all bad news. And true, that’s often what we deal with in global health—the problems that need tackling, the suffering we can help alleviate.But then stories and columns like this one cheer us up. They remind us that no matter how complicated and frustrating our work may get, fighting back against poverty and inequality works.There are and always will be global
October 19, 2020
May is the Employee Health & Fitness Month. Global Employee Health & Fitness Month (GEHFM) is an international observance of health and fitness in the workplace. The goal of GEHFM is to promote the benefits of a healthy lifestyle to employers and their employees through worksite health promotion activities and environments.At the HWG, even with the prevalence of COVID-19, our vision is that one day everyone will be physically active, and they will live, WORK, and play in environments that facilitate regular physical
