In 2003, Dr. Sajeev Arora, a liver specialist at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, realized that his specialty clinic for the treatment of Hepatitis C was overrun with patients in need of care. Wait lists were long and many of the patients who were being seen struggled to keep their appointments because of the long distances they had to travel to Albuquerque to receive Interferon, a complicated and sole treatment available at the time.
Read MorePharmacists are truly the medication experts and, with a recent estimate putting the cost of hospital readmissions at over $40 billion annually and a Medicare readmission rate of nearly 20%, it’s long past time to invest in Pharmacists’ expertise.
Read MoreTechnology has done wonders for the medical world, enabling providers to sustain life in ways that were not imaginable 50 years ago. However, when there’s no hope of a reasonable recovery, why is every life sustaining option implemented in spite of what the patient may want?
Read MoreJust this past week a new study from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) System published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) provides further evidence that the decades old conventional practice of prescribing opioids for certain types of chronic pain may be no more effective than over-the-counter remedies found at the drugstore.
Read MoreHealth inequity is a pervasive fact in American life, but does it have to be?
Read MoreEmtiro Health’s Board of Directors is pleased to announce that Kelly B. Garrison will serve as the organization’s next President and CEO.
Read MoreMany patients are intimidated in health care settings. The mere fact that the provider is holding the knowledge and answers that ultimately affects the patient’s health and wellbeing puts them in a position of power. With that much influence and power, patients will of course do what their provider has directed them to do, right? Wrong.
Read MoreThe more I learn about nutrition, the more I believe Hippocrates’ words to be true. Unfortunately, the best dietary “medicine” is out of reach for many.
Read MoreWhat if I told you the FDA was about to approve a drug that increased life expectancy by 10 years, halved the infant mortality rate, and substantially decreased hospital admissions and emergency department use, while at the same time saving our health system $1 trillion per year?
Read MoreOn November 13th The American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology and nine other groups redefined high blood pressure as a reading of 130 over 80, down from 140 over 90. The change, the first in 14 years, means that 46 percent of U.S. adults, many of them under the age of 45, now will be considered hypertensive.
Read MoreAsk any primary care clinician and they will tell you that their practice is a de facto mental health clinic. Over half of individuals who receive mental health services in any given year receive those services in medical settings.
Read MoreToday, Partnership for Community Care Network (P4CC) of Greensboro and Northwest Community Care Network (NCCN) of Winston Salem announced the formation of Emtiro Health, a joint venture of the two organizations. Emtiro Health will build on the vast experience of P4CC and NCCN to provide a total population health management solution to patients, providers, and payers.
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