Tag: physicians
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Health care’s culture doesn’t encourage doctors to report medical errors of colleagues; article says patients should come first
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Doctors are often aware of their colleagues’ medical errors, but fail to report them because of a culture that does not support or encourage...
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Prescriptions for better health care and health: empowering patients, increasing health education and collaboration
By Melissa Patrick University of Kentucky School of Journalism and Telecommunications The importance of empowering patients, increasing health education and collaboration were a few of the topics discussed at the...
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Speakers at conference discuss impacts and possible solutions for deadly mistakes and near misses in hospitals
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Medical mistakes made in hospitals cause 98,000 deaths per year. Or four times that many? That is the widely accepted number based on a...
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1 in 3 don’t get potentially life-saving screening for colon cancer, second leading cause of cancer death in Ky. and U.S.
Federal officials said Tuesday that although detecting colon cancer early saves lives, only about two-thirds of Americans aged 50 to 75 have undergone recommended screening. The U.S. Preventive Services Task...
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Primary care clinics added to Ky. Health Cooperative’s network
The Kentucky Primary Care Association, a nonprofit charitable organization that promotes access to comprehensive primary health care services for the under-served, has been added to the Kentucky Health Cooperative’s provider...
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Physicians say they dislike regulations on use of electronic health records, but they don’t want to go back to paper records
Doctors say use of electronic health records is one factor contributing to physician dissatisfaction because it interferes with patient care, says a new study. Surveyed physicians blame EHRs for reduced...
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Rural doctors need to support recruitment of more colleagues, former Leitchfield hospital administrator writes
With Kentucky’s doctor shortage about to be exacerbated by expansion of the Medicaid program and federally subsidized health insurance, there will be more competition than ever to recruit physicians, especially...
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New survey shows physicians feel need to limit health-care costs but make that secondary to the interests of their patients
A new survey about health-care costs reveals that 85 percent of U.S. physicians feel a responsibility to address costs but say other professionals have more of a responsibility to do...
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Hospital and insurance chiefs say health reform will improve Ky.’s health care and its health, after bumps in road
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The federal health-reform law will improve health care and help make Kentuckians healthier, though some will be inconvenienced, officials of Kentucky’s leading hospitals and...
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Kentucky, insurance companies are applying lessons learned in state’s hurried transition to managed-care Medicaid
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Gov. Steve Beshear rushed to transplant Medicaid into a new bed called managed care, hoping the new medium would save money and improve health,...