In the Health Insurance Marketplace, you generally can get dental coverage as part of a health plan or by itself through a separate, stand-alone dental plan.
Now comes a study in the current issue of the Journal of Patient Safety that says the numbers may be much higher — between210,000 and 440,000 patients each year who go to the hospital for care suffer some type of preventable harm that contributes to their death, the study says.
That would make medical errors the third-leading cause of death in America, behind heart disease, which is the first, and cancer, which is second.
"This study is important, as delirium is often overlooked and minimized in the hospital setting, especially in persons with dementia," said Donna M. Fick, Distinguished Professor of Nursing at Penn State and principal investigator for this study. "And it illustrates that delirium is deadly, costly and impacts patient functioning."
The investigation was successful on two levels: Vediyappan's research team found the medicinal compound is both nontoxic and blocks the virulence properties of the fungus so that it is more treatable. The results are important for human health, biomedical applications and potential drug development.
"We have shown that this compound is safe to use because it doesn't hurt our body cells, yet it blocks the virulence of this fungus under in vitro conditions," Vediyappan said. "Taking the medicine could potentially help patients control the invasive growth of the fungus and also help bring their sugar levels down."
The CSIRO’s Smarter, Safer Homes project, currently being trialed in regional NSW, involves placing simple sensors such as motion detectors and energy sensors around the home to monitor an elderly person as they go about their day and report the data back to family members or carers.
For example, motion sensors can detect whether a person rose from bed at the usual time, whether the kettle was put on in the morning, if they are regularly cooking food for themselves or even if the oven has been left on.
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This is actually a usable distinction.
"With 10 or 15 minute recall tests already in common use worldwide, we can distinguish individuals who have or are at risk for developing cognitive impairment from healthy adults, and we can do so with better accuracy than any existing tools," said Brainerd.
The notion that memory declines continuously throughout adulthood appears to be incorrect, they say. "When we separated out the cognitively impaired individuals, we found no evidence of further memory declines after the age of 69 in samples of nationally representative older adults and highly educated older adults," said Reyna.
Specifically, the researchers found that declines in reconstructive memory (recalling a word or event by piecing it together from clues about its meaning, for example, recalling that "dog" was presented in a word list by first remembering that household pets were presented in the list) were associated with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's dementia, but not with healthy aging. Declines in recollective memory - recalling a word or event exactly - were a feature of normal aging.
Licensed insurance agents will be available at no cost in nearly 2,000 Rite Aid storesto provide answers to questions about Obamacare benefits and to help people apply for coverage and financial assistance or Medicaid coverage starting Oct. 1, when health insurance exchange marketplaces are scheduled to open for business across the country. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius joined Rite Aid CEO John Standley at a Monday news conference in Hoboken, N.J., to promote the initiative.
The real advantages will come as these innovations start to cross boundaries between groups of professionals. When you can share the information from your wearable device with your doctor, who can upload that into an electronic record that works with the systems your specialists are using, and they can compare that data against the things your genome suggests you might be at elevated risk for and consider the interventions that are most likely to work for you as an individual — then we’ll really be onto something.
On the patient side, there is a generational divide between people who are used to sharing lots of personal information and people who have been trained to keep everything to themselves. On the provider side, there is an ingrained way of thinking about how to make good decisions (with an over-reliance on “gut instinct” and subjective experience). On the research side, the practice of publishing only successful studies — some with dubious definitions of success — means that failed research is never shared, and we lose a lot of available context for the studies that are published, misleading us all about the significance of various findings. In the entire system, incentives are misaligned so that the care and health of the patient isn’t actually the primary concern.
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