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- Connections for Cardiovascular Health Announces Grants to Four Texas Organizations
- MS Patient Resources iPhone and iPod Touch App
- Patient Education Helps Earlier Detection of Skin Lesions After Kidney Transplant
- Patient Education Reduces Readmissions and ER Visits, Saves Money
- Evidence that Patient Education Saves Money
- How to Start a Chiropractic Practice: A Two-Fold Marketing Plan
- Never Trust a Silent Patient
- The Chiropractor's Most Important Asset
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Connections for Cardiovascular Health Announces Grants to Four Texas Organizations
WILMINGTON, Del.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
The AstraZeneca HealthCare Foundation program, Connections for Cardiovascular HealthSM, today announced grants totaling $635,000 to four organizations committed to improving the cardiovascular health of Texans.
The organizations – Cornerstone Assistance Network in Fort Worth, El Buen Samaritano Episcopal Mission in Austin, Scott & White Memorial Hospital in Temple, and Sustainable Food Center in Austin – are among the first recipients of grants from the Connections for Cardiovascular Health program launched last year.
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DIME Launches MS Patient Resources iPhone and iPod Touch App
New Digital Tools Put Up-to-date Patient Information Right at the Point of Care
DIME introduces MS Patient Resources, an application for the iPhone and iPod Touch, enabling clinicians to bring credible, patient-focused information to the point-of-care in the office or clinic, where they treat and counsel patients with multiple sclerosis. MS Patient Resources provides dynamic, on-demand information, ranging from scientific research and diagnostic pathways to patient-support resources.
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Patient Education Helps Earlier Detection of Skin Lesions After Kidney Transplant
Public release date: 21-Feb-2011
Sharing printed educational materials about the risk of squamous cell carcinoma with kidney transplant recipients appeared to be effective at increasing skin self-examination and encouraging follow-up with a dermatologist to determine risk of cancer, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the June issue of Archives of Dermatology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
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Patient education reduces readmissions and ER visits, saves money
Chelsey Ledue, Contributing Editor, Healthcare Finance News - February 03, 2009
WASHINGTON – Patients who have a clear understanding of their after-hospital care instructions are 30 percent less likely to be readmitted or visit the emergency department than patients who lack this information, according to a new study funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
The study is published in the February 3, 2009, issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine and can be read right here at Anatomy Now.
Evidence that Patient Education Saves Money
By Fran London - October, 2010
Health care providers and administrators talk about striving toward an evidence-based practice. And yet, we choose to ignore some evidence outright, such as the fact that patient education is very a cost-effective tool to improve health outcomes.
A classic study from fifteen years ago (Bartlett, 1995) did a meta-analysis of studies done up to that point, and reported that, “for every dollar invested in patient education. $3 to $4 were saved” and “none of the studies reported that education cost more than it saved.” And Bartlett went on to say, “It is intriguing that an earlier review of cost-benefit studies of health education in the worksite [from 1991] reached a similar conclusion: that savings are generally three or more times greater than program costs.”
So we've know, for at least 20 years...Read this Article
How to Start a Chiropractic Practice: A Two-Fold Marketing Plan 
August 11th, 2010
The idea of starting a chiropractic practice can be daunting. It’s quite a challenge to convince people that you’re the best chiropractor around. Even if you know what to do, you must be prepared to deliver. Before people can allow you do a spinal manipulation on them, they would first have to believe that you can do something about the pains in their back, neck, and other joints.
So how can you convince people to entrust their neuromuscular complaints to you? How can you jump-start a chiropractic practice into one that’s successful?
A good marketing scheme is the key. Here’s our two-fold tip ... Read this Article
Never Trust a "Silent" patient 
June 1st, 2010
As business owners, medical professionals and private practitioners deal with many of the same problems that traditional businesses encounter. Often, professionals try to avoid complaints and criticisms from their patients and clients. However, complaints can actually help your business develop and improve -- IF you use them correctly.
The reason complaints can actually drastically improve your practice is... Read this Article
The chiropractor's most important asset 
May 26th, 2010
While operating a practice, chiropractors deal with many difficulties as professionals. They have staff, overhead, equipment costs, insurance, budgeting, and, of course, patients to deal with. With all these complications, chiropractors are understandably on the lookout for things that will help them make their practices better. While there are many ways to do this, there is one addition to a your practice that, if used properly, can greatly enhance their business in multiple ways.
The most important asset a chiropractor can create for him/herself is this... Read this Article
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