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Dr. Kristin Devor will see patients of all ages, focusing on preventative care Columbus, Ohio (PRWEB) May 08, 2013 Family medicine physician Dr. Kristin Devor has joined OhioHealth’s Columbus medical team to accept new patients of all ages for preventative and primary care. She sees patients at Central Ohio Primary Care Physicians - Provider Physicians North, on Olentangy River Road in Columbus. Dr. Devor, a graduate of the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine, described...

Nationally Recognized Healthcare Provider Will Use Edifecs ICD-10 Solution to Identify Risk, Simplify Code Mapping and Better Leverage Resources BELLEVUE, Wash. (PRWEB) April 17, 2013 Edifecs, Inc., a leading provider of healthcare software solutions, today announced that OhioHealth, a not-for-profit healthcare organization, has selected Edifecs as its strategic technology partner for ICD-10. OhioHealth will use Edifecs ICD-10 Impact Analytics and ICD-10 Code Management to automate much...

COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- OhioHealth is expanding its life-saving stroke care across the region through the OhioHealth Stroke Network with the support of the Verizon Foundation. The OhioHealth Stroke Network is the first partnership for stroke treatment and research of its kind in Ohio and employs advanced telemedicine technology to help patients across the region receive the most advanced stroke care and appropriate intervention. Emergency teams at partner...

Dr. Mitchell Spahn will see patients on a wide range of women’s health issues Columbus, Ohio (PRWEB) March 12, 2013 Women’s health specialist Dr. Mitchell Spahn will join OhioHealth’s Columbus medical team to see patients in a wide range of women’s health and pregnancy care issues. He will see patients at the Columbus OB/GYN offices in Hilliard, Ohio and London, Ohio and deliver his patients’ babies at OhioHealth Dublin Methodist Hospital. Dr. Spahn, who completed his medical...

OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital is nation's first to use recently-approved drug-coated stent COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital is now treating patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD) with the first drug-eluting stent to be used outside of the heart. Cook Medical's Zilver PTX is a drug-coated stent that is used to reopen a long thigh artery, located above the knee (the femoropopliteal artery), narrowed or blocked due...

Dr. Timothy Iorio Will Provide Comprehensive Orthopedic and Upper Extremity Care Columbus, OH (PRWEB) October 18, 2012 Orthopedic hand and upper extremity specialist Dr. Timothy Iorio will join SportsMedicineGRANT to treat patients with work- or sports-related injuries to the finger, hand, wrist, arm or elbow. Specific conditions that Dr. Iorio will treat include carpal tunnel, cubital tunnel, trigger finger, tendonitis, fractures and arthritis, among many others. He brings an...

OhioHealth provides list of check-ups men and women should be having on a yearly or even monthly basis Columbus, Ohio (PRWEB) December 30, 2011 Because health screenings are important, OhioHealth is providing a check list for 2012. It’s a good idea to get your blood pressure checked, women need to have a mammogram, and eventually men should schedule a prostate exam. Men and women are often unsure of how often to have screenings and what age to begin. Since a new year means a fresh...

COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Health4 and Medical Mutual of Ohio have developed an innovative program which will reward hospitals and doctors for keeping people healthy and out of the hospital. Medical Mutual, the Ohio-based health insurer and Health4 have collaborated on a new approach to control healthcare costs by improving coordination and quality of care. Under the new agreement, Health4 doctors and hospitals will be financially rewarded when quality healthcare...

WOONSOCKET, R.I. and COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- MinuteClinic, the retail health care division of CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS), and OhioHealth, a nationally recognized not-for-profit, charitable health care organization based in Columbus, Ohio, have entered into a clinical affiliation that will enhance the high quality, affordable health care services they provide in central Ohio. MinuteClinic has seven walk-in medical clinics open seven days a week inside select CVS/pharmacy...

In the face of continued rising healthcare costs, many U.S. employers are betting they can entice workers to lose weight or adopt healthier lifestyles by offering financial incentives."There's been an explosion of interest in this," said Dr. Kevin Volpp, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Health Incentives, in an interview with the Associated Press (AP).With the majority of its workforce overweight, hospital chain OhioHealth initiated a program last year that...