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MARLBOROUGH, Mass., June 4, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following public interest article is written by Cindy Reilly, RN, BSN, Vice President of Quality and Patient Safety at Marlborough Hospital: Mr. Spock may not have been a physician, but his rational approach to all things in the final frontier is--if you will pardon the pun--"just what the doctor ordered." In fact, when it comes to recent changes in health care reimbursements, the answers to most hospital readmission...
Publisher of health rankings to source profiles from leading physician network SAN MATEO, Calif., June 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. News & World Report, publisher of Best Hospitals, Best Medical Schools and Best Health Insurance Plans, has announced a new collaboration with Doximity, the leading professional network for doctors. Working with Doximity, U.S. News will offer a free online directory of more than 700,000 practicing U.S. physicians. This enables U.S. News to better...
Voyance and Physician Hospitals of America (PHA) announced that they will officially be continuing their benchmarking partnership through mid-2015. Voyance’s and PHA’s efforts provide physician owned hospitals with reliable, comprehensive, and invaluable benchmarking data. Branford, CT (PRWEB) June 03, 2013 Voyance, healthcare’s leading provider of patient satisfaction, benchmarking, and perception management solutions, and PHA, the industry’s most credible advocate and resource...
Significant shift in the site of cancer care increases costs for seniors and Medicare, sequester cut to cancer drugs threatens to accelerate shift CHICAGO, June 3, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new study released today by The Moran Company (Moran) finds that between 2005 and 2011 the relative number of chemotherapy administration procedures performed in hospital outpatient settings for Medicare Fee-for-Service (FFS) beneficiaries increased by more than 150 percent (13.5% in 2005...
SAN ANTONIO, June 3, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Physician Life Care Planning, a healthcare information services company which provides physician-directed life care plans and other high quality medical-legal services, announces its Platinum Sponsorship of the 2013 International Symposium on Life Care Planning. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130603/CG23706) The international event, billed as "Shepherding the Fundamentals While Exploring Contemporary Issues in Life Care...
Through sessions on career and practice management, physician residents and fellows find helping hand in planning ahead to avoid financial pitfalls of doctoring. Cleveland, OH (PRWEB) May 31, 2013 This spring,Physician Advisors, LLC, a physician-specific financial services company, toured medical colleges, universities and clinics in the Cleveland, Ohio, area, offering physician residents and fellows advice and training in career and practice management, with the goal of helping young...
PORTSMOUTH, N.H., May 31, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Novocure, a commercial stage private oncology company, announced today that data from pre-clinical and clinical studies evaluating NovoTTF(TM) Therapy will be presented and published online as part of the 49th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago, IL, May 31-June 4, 2013. The clinical data includes a detailed analysis of time to tumor progression for patients with recurrent glioblastoma treated...
Lilly Oncology partners with MDLinx to make new research easily accessible INDIANAPOLIS, May 31, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Recent advancements in cancer research have come at break-neck speed, yielding data that has provided new hope for cancer patients. Each advancement comes with an accompanying manuscript and oncologists are presented, each day, with dozens of newly published peer-reviewed, cancer-related articles in order to keep up to date on the latest advances. To aid physicians...
HCP National’s Article, “Basics of Medical Malpractice Insurance - Terms that every Physician should know”, was recently published by The American Journal of Aesthetic Medicine (AJAM). Aliso Viejo, CA (PRWEB) May 30, 2013 William Dyer, Vice President and co-founder of HCP National, announced today that he is proud to be recognized and published by the prestigious AJAM. William Dyer said, “We find that physicians need more education and need to learn the terminology of malpractice...
Cenegenics—the world’s largest age management medicine practice—is seeking more physicians to enter its paradigm shift in medicine with highly regarded training/certification and partnering opportunities Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) May 30, 2013 Major metro areas nationwide are clamoring for healthy aging solutions, which is why Cenegenics is answering the call by reaching out to physicians in all walks of medicine, offering them a highly regarded physician training/certification program...
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Sigmoidoscopy is a medical procedure in which the physician is able to visualize the inside walls of the large intestine with a scope placed in the rectum. Only the distal part of the colon, or the sigmoid, is examined as opposed to the entire bowel in a colonoscopy. Reasons for procedure The use of this procedure is mainly for early detection of colorectal cancer, vascular abnormalities or polyps. Studies have shown that this procedure has aided in early detection of colorectal cancer...
The esophagogastroduodenoscopy is a medical diagnostic procedure used in internal medicine to view the upper part of the gastrointestinal tract. This non-invasive procedure is used for many complaints and requires little to no time for recovery from the procedure. Reasons for the Procedure Patients present to their physician with physical complaints. For example, a patient may come into the office and say they have been feeling tired and forgetful. Through many tests and evaluations,...
Percussion is a technique used during a clinical examination to elicit sounds while tapping on the body surface. These sounds can give clues to physicians as to the state of the underlying structures. Percussion can be utilized during well checks or during development of the physician’s differential diagnosis. Percussion was introduced to distinguish between empty and filled barrels of liquor until Dr. Leopold Auenbrugger introduced the technique to medicine. How the Method is Performed...
Palpation is a technique used by a physician or medical provider during a physical examination. By placing hands on a patient, data can be gathered that is otherwise unknown by visualization only. What Information it Provides Information such as the temperature of the skin, the moistness or dryness of the skin, the shape of a structure, the location of pain, the radiation of the pain, the quality of function, strength of a structure, amount of swelling, sensation, circulation and so...
Medical inspection is a head to toe exam completed by a physician. This inspection can either be for a well-check or for diagnosis. During this exam several techniques, tools and outside resources may be utilized in order to complete. A systematic approach will give the physician more uniform results that will be more useful for diagnosis and monitoring patient health. Common practice of this inspection will also build a better patient knowledge and relationship. Technique Providers have...
