U.S. hospital, doctor visits balloon, survey finds
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Hospital and doctor visits in the United States have surged by 20 percent in the past five years and the most commonly prescribed medications are antidepressants, according to statistics published on Friday.
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I overheard a long-time hospital client talking to another support vendor today. The hospitalâs patient accounting department was attempting to send patient financial and billing data to a third-party biller. The vendorâs normal Web site was down, and they were trying to come up with an emergency fix.
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Several years ago, doctors at a Houston hospital began using ultrasound on stroke patients to watch how quickly blood flow in their brains was returning when emergency room nurses noticed something very unusual.
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At a scary time for patients, too few doctors ask about feelings, a new study finds.
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USA - Medicare patients with chronic illnesses receive &quot;significantly different&quot; levels of treatment in hospitals ranked &quot;best&quot; by US News and World Report, a new study published Thursday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports (Maltin, Atlanta Journal
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Family doctors say patients should be more aware of their relatives' health history, a survey has found.
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NEW YORK  - Having difficulty breathing?   Sudden pain? Sudden changes in vision? Get to the emergency   department, advises the American College of Emergency   Physicians.
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Influenza is sending more people to the  hospital in the United States each year and the flu season  appears to be getting longer, a government study said on  Tuesday.
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TORONTO - Doctors in the United States tend to treat heart attacks more aggressively than their Canadian counterparts, which improves chances of survival for patients, researchers say.
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By Suzanne Hoholik, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Feb. 12--Ideally, patients could go to any central Ohio hospital and, with a few taps on a keyboard, staff members could read their medical histories.
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Your next doctor could be keeping an eye on you from afar &#151; via a camera and a bank of computer screens. An expanding number of hospitals are adopting technology that allows critical care doctors and nurses to monitor dozens of patients at different hospitals simultaneously, much as an air traffic controller keeps track of several planes.
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TUESDAY, Dec. 5 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. Medicaid patients are less likely than patients with HMOs or private health insurance to receive recommended cardiac care, say researchers who analyzed data on more than 96,000 patients at 521 hospitals across the country.
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MONDAY, Sept. 24 (HealthDay News) -- The vast majority (86 percent) of American parents participate in medical decisions made about their children while in hospital, a new study finds.
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In the study, Dr. Robert JF Laheij from the University Medical Center St. Radboud in Nijmegen, the Netherlands and colleagues used information in a national primary care database to analyze pneumonia rates
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Most physician-owned specialty hospitals are poorly equipped to handle medical emergencies, federal investigators will report today, underscoring a longstanding concern about the rapid rise in the number of such hospitals.
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NEW YORK  - How a hospital rates in terms of the quality of care it provides does not appear to be closely linked to patient outcomes, according to a study in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association.
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The quality of health care in the United States is steadily improving, with more patients getting recommended treatments, but there are a few notable gaps -- and costs are skyrocketing, according to a report released on Tuesday.