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As the U.S. ages and more than 30 million new patients enter the health care system under the Affordable Care Act, experts predict that soon, there won’t be enough doctors for everyone who wants to see one—a shortage of 90,000 doctors by 2020, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. To meet the demand, a surging class of almost-but-not-quite-doctors known as physician assistants, are stepping up to fill the M.D.’s shoes.
There are now more than 100,000 certified physician assistants in the U.S., up 34% since 2008, and while the employment prospects for most fields remain bleak, the Department of Labor forecasts the number of physician assistant jobs will grow another 30% by 2020. The number of nurse practitioners, which have similar training and duties, is also expected to rise.
Though physician assistants don’t go to medical school, experts say they can fill about 80% of a doctor’s role.. 
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Healthcare brands have typically arrived late to the content marketing bash. That’s why they’re not always sure how to participate in social media conversations.
The first stumble happens when they attempt to engage before identifying their audience’s content needs and thus end up with a conversation that is irrelevant right from the start. Here are six elements of engagement (defined in the Razorfish Liminal Report**) to help healthcare brands understand their audiences’ content needs: 1.value 2. efficiency 3.trust 4.consistency 5.relevance 6.control
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Upcoming Health Affairs Theme Issue On Patient Engagement And Activation Submission of mauscripts October 15th Issue released early 2013
Health Affairs is the leading peer-reviewed journal at the intersection of health, health care, and policy.
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Retail Therapy for Anxious Insurers..
J.Kleinke pictures how health insurers company in the States respond to regulations with "horizontal consolidation", which will further reduce copmetition and the pressure to lower medical costs, and are also buying "vertically" pruchasing hopsitals and physicians pratices..with much happy talk about "care integration". If health insurers wanted to protect their shareholders long term under the new Obamacare order, they would invest not in these desperate fantasies of market control, but in their own operations. “Managed care” may have come and gone but the myriad problems in the medical delivery system it tried to fix have not. They would be better served minding their real business: managing the medical costs and health status of those they insure. There are no fancy tricks or world-beater press releases for this – just lots of hard work adjudicating claims, rooting out fraud, aligning payment with evidence, managing provider and patient adherence to the evidence, tracking outcomes, and steering people toward the better hospitals and doctors. These are the mostly untried but still true great ideas from the past two decades that everyone likes to talk about, but almost no one gets around to executing.
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Vinod Khosla: Technology Will Replace 80 Percent of Docs 47 Responses By Davis Liu, MD
A impression from the key note speaker Vinod Khosla at the Health Innovation Summit in San Francisco, end of August. “Health care is like witchcraft and just based on tradition.” Entrepreneurs need to develop technology that would stop doctors from practicing like “voodoo doctors” and be more like scientists. Health care must be more data driven and about wellness, not sick care. Eighty percent of doctors could be replaced by machines. Khosla assured the audience that being part of the health care system was a burden and disadvantage. Vinod Khosla: Technology Will Replace 80 Percent of Docs 47 Responses By Davis Liu, MD I recently viewed health care through the lenses of a technology entrepreneur by attending the Health Innovation Summit hosted by Rock Health in San Francisco. As a practicing primary care doctor, I was inspired to hear from Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel, listen to Thomas Goetz, executive editor of Wired magazine, and Dr. Tom Lee, founder of One Medical Group as well as ePocrates. Not surprising, the most fascinating person, was the keynote speaker, Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems as well as a partner in a couple venture capital firms. “Health care is like witchcraft and just based on tradition.” Entrepreneurs need to develop technology that would stop doctors from practicing like “voodoo doctors” and be more like scientists. Health care must be more data driven and about wellness, not sick care. Eighty percent of doctors could be replaced by machines. Khosla assured the audience that being part of the health care system was a burden and disadvantage. To disrupt health care, entrepreneurs do not need to be part of the system or status quo. Khosla believed that patients would be better off getting diagnosed by a machine than by doctors. Is it possible technology entrepreneurs can disrupt health care? He challenged any doctor in the room to counter his points. Silence. Was it because everyone agreed? Were the doctors in the room simply stunned? Was there a doctor in the house? And where did he get that 80 percent statistic?...
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The success of devices like the iPhone and iPad in healthcare has become so pronounced that the Department of Health And Human Services has begun to single-out the use mobile devices as part of the meaningful use requirements for electronic health records (EHR) systems. In addition to identifying mobile device use, the agency has also taken steps towards explicitly regulating mobile device security needs in the healthcare industry.
references to smartphones, tablets, and mobile apps (the language is by and large generic and doesn’t specify mobile platforms like iOS and Android by name).
'Requiring health-care providers to assess whether they need to encrypt protected health information data while at rest, in reaction to multiple breaches of PHI from mobile devices.
The general policy we express in this certification criterion requires EHR technology designed to locally store electronic health information on end-user devices to encrypt such information after use of EHR technology on those devices stops
Encryption is required for mobile devices, and EHRs must be able to create an audit log of such encryptions if the system allows local storage of data on the devices.'
Other rules stipulate that some of the required use of digital systems can be met using mobile devices:
The provider’s use of computer assistance to directly enter medical orders… from a computer or mobile device.'
'[S]ecure email, a secure portal, even some type of mobile application could all be examples for secure messaging methods that could potentially meet this certification criterion.
Vendors may develop mobile patient-engagement apps using technology that meets basic requirements for EHR certification, including secure email, portals and mobile applications using a variety of transport standards.'
The frequency of the references and their specificity clearly highlights the increasing role that the iPhone, iPad, and other mobile technologies have in healthcare - on the part of doctors, nurses, and hospitals as well as on the part of consumers. A recent study notes that 40% of mobile apps being developed today are related to healthcare or general health and wellness topics.
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Five of the fasted growing digital health companies Every year Inc. Magazine publishes a list of the fastest growing private companies in the United States. While the publication’s method has its drawbacks, the resulting list is much more concrete than many of the subjective lists of top companies, apps, or products floating around. Inc. ranks companies by percent growth in revenue over the course of the past few years.
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At the beginning of August, an important and well documented article on the cost of European frontline cancer care was published in Cancer World, a magazine of the European School of Oncology. he article of Anna Wagstaff, Core Contributing Writer of CancerWorld, “Patients pay a price for spending cuts” (from which I borrowed the title of this post) comments on the results of the recent survey of CancerWorld about how public spending cuts are impacting on frontline cancer care.
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Het inkomen van de huisartsen is in tien jaar gestegen met 75 procent. Daarmee overbrugden ze een deel van hun achterstand op de andere artsengroepen. ...
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From robots that can be controlled with your mind to a molecule that promises cavity-free teeth, we bring you the most innovative stories from the world of wellness research.
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Of the more than 13,600 consumer heath apps we analyzed in April, the vast majority fit snugly into one of our 12 main subcategories, which include cardio fitness, dieting, stress relief, chronic condition management, and medication adherence. Since we began tracking consumer health apps in early 2010 we have noticed a handful of emerging categories of apps that are only now becoming large enough that one might consider them a trend.Here’s a list of three mini-trends that didn’t make it into our consumer health apps report this year:
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The iPhone Is The New Doctor’s Housecall Health related iOS apps are proliferating quickly in the App Store. While the most popular healthrelated apps tend to be focused on diet, exercise, and stress relief, there are some other fast growing trends that show how the iPhone and iPad transforming the healthcare experience for consumers. According to MobiHealthNews, which provides an annual assessment of the market for mobile apps related to medicine, health, and fitness, three new trends are emerging that could significantly reshape our experience of healthcare.Read more at http://www.cultofmac.com/181918/the-iphone-is-the-new-doctors-housecall/#kU1UCRwkybuEHd3b.99 Read more at http://www.cultofmac.com/181918/the-iphone-is-the-new-doctors-housecall/#kU1UCRwkybuEHd3b.99
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New CEO Survey performed by CEO Connection and NPD Reveals How CEOs Use Social Media for Communications and Marketing...
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FirstWord Pharma - Gain Access to the Information You Need Track the Companies, Products, and Regulatory Areas of Most Interest to You...
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Europe is getting a wake-up call. After the INET Council on the Euro Zone Crisis report warned that, “Europe is sleepwalking toward a disaster of incalculable proportions,” news media around the world are echoing the Council’s alarm bells to European leaders. Reuters hailed the report’s authors as “leading global economists,” while Bloomberg noted the timeliness of the document, saying that it has been released when “the euro is plumbing new lows and Germany’s top credit rating was called into question by Moody’s Investors Service as a result of the burden Europe’s biggest economy might have to bear to hold the euro together.”
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IBM Marketing Innovation Summit... Overview, session details and downloads
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A central component of the Affordable Care Act is the establishment of state-based health insurance exchanges. Read about the insurance act of the Netherlands in comaprison with Switserland ! I'd say: to have health care provider and their associates compete for better care is the besy driver for change!
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In 2007, PCC was one of 15 organizations chosen to prototype IHI’s Triple Aim, which seeks to transform health systems by simultaneously pursuing three aims. The Triple aim in Care: 1. enhancing the experience of individual patients, 2. improving the health of a population, and 3. reducing the cost of care.
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Healthcare issues are widely reported across an array of mediums. These reports influence investors, doctors, the general public, and the government. Journalists in the space are dedicated to advancing public understanding of health care technologies, issues, and advancements in any one area.
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Diabetes care in The Netherlands has reached a high level of quality, but there is still opportunity for further improvement
A report of costs of carefor diabetes - see download report in English
Onderzoek topkwaliteit loont diabeteszorg moet beter...
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The european Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. The European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies supports and promotes evidence-based health policy-making through comprehensive and rigorous analysis of the dynamics of health care systems in Europe.
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The Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act – the health reform law President Obama signed two years ago, ensuring hard-working, middle class families will get the security they deserve and protecting every American...
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Three independent physician groups have signed a letter of intent proposing to form a practice called the Advanced Physicians Care Organization. The practices account for more than half of the patients at Beaumont Hospital in Troy.
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PORTLAND, Ore., June 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Eleven integrated health systems, with more than 16 million members,... for diabetes base of more than 1 million diverse diabetes patients, to find better treatments and prevention strategies..
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