By Assaf Halevy

2018 has been a year of acceleration for organizations seeking to leverage precision medicine. Momentum is clearly building as healthcare leaders explore how genomics could impact real-time clinical decision-making.

This puts the industry on the brink of what Malcolm Gladwell famously characterized as a tipping point: that moment when an idea or innovation “crosses a threshold…and spreads like wildfire.”

While preparing for a genomics “wildfire” might be overly optimistic, there is little doubt that 2019 will fuel significant progress in converting the promise of precision medicine into daily clinical practice.

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The natural causes of sagging breasts are aging, skin thinning, and gravity. You cannot do anything to prevent these forces of nature from making your boobs sag. But you can definitely minimize the negative impact. Simply by adopting a few healthy measures! So let’s get to know the 5 daily habits that will make your boobs sag. Once you know what they are, you can mindfully get rid of them.

The journey to the south is under your control too. So don’t just choose not to do anything about sagging breasts. As humans, sometimes we don’t realize what we’re doing wrong. Until the right method presents itself before us! It’s only natural to make these kinds of errors.

You might also believe in popular myths. Such as not wearing a bra reduces the perkiness of your boobs! Well, that’s not completely accurate information. So read on if you want access to proper guidelines. [Read more…]

By Debra Zalvan

Here’s what we know. Every interaction that patients have with their doctors, nurses and other staff—whether in the hospital or the doctor’s office—makes an impression and can impact health outcomes. Unfortunately, there isn’t enough time during typical interactions to impart all of the knowledge and support patients need to confidently manage their care.

That’s why ongoing “follow-up” with patients is so critical for providing the accurate, useful and timely information patients need once they’ve returned home. Whether calling patients by phone, directing them to websites, or sending messages by text or email, we know that when patients have continued engagement with healthcare providers, it matters.

The 4 top research points below clearly show that this kind of follow-up drives patient understanding, builds trust and sets patient expectations – which are all important parts of value-based care. [Read more…]

How Alerts, Reminders and Notifications are Solving a $150 Billion Problem

By Robert Vis

Around the world, in clinics, doctor’s offices, hospitals, and urgent care centers, tech innovation—from 3D printing to AI-enabled devices— is changing medical treatment as we know it. Yet, as the technology used inside medical facilities becomes more and more state-of-the-art, the technology used to get patients in the door, even today, is often out-of-date and lagging behind the times. 

A big part of the problem: rigid, inefficient, manual appointment scheduling systems that aren’t in line with our busy, on-the-go, on-demand world. With just 66% of medical offices on track to offer self-scheduling services by the end of 2019, many healthcare providers still rely solely on landlines, staffed during pre-set business hours, to reschedule appointments or convey important information to their patients. It’s a head-scratcher in a field that’s otherwise so forward-thinking and innovative. Providers wouldn’t use the same equipment and approaches to patient care that they would have 20 years ago. So, why would they continue to communicate with patients the same they did back then—especially when modern technology enables seamless, on-the-go interactions that comply with patient privacy laws? [Read more…]

Physicians are bound to have several patients who are frequently on the road. This can often make routine visits difficult to schedule, or even cause patients to skip annual checkups all together. Since the very nature of an on-the-go lifestyle can make patients more susceptible to a variety of health problems, it’s crucial for them to both schedule and keep their appointments.

Many types of professionals, such as businessmen, musicians, aircrews or poker players, all travel frequently to meet the demands of their work. But frequent travel can often lead to poor eating and sleeping habits that can leave routine travelers feeling run down or ill. During a checkup or visit, it’s important to remind patients to foster healthy habits on the road so that they can continue functioning at their best and keep their immune system strong. Below are a few other ways physicians can provide patients with the tools they need to stay healthy on the road. [Read more…]

By Jenna Lindsay, BSN, RN

Mitigating risks of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) is constantly on the mind of hospital leadership and clinicians alike, and even more so when treating vulnerable patients in isolation care settings. Because these patients can be more contagious and/or susceptible to infection, isolation care requires extra attention to detail to ensure infection prevention protocol compliance is followed.

The good news is, special precautions to better protect this high-risk patient population are gaining the attention of healthcare organizations and manufacturers alike.

Frequently used equipment that can be vectors of cross-contamination – such as rolls of medical tape – are being designed for single-patient use in isolation settings to help decrease the risk of pathogen transmission. Additionally, leading healthcare organizations like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) specifically recommend single-patient stethoscopes be used for patients in isolation environments.

However, poor quality disposable equipment can make it difficult for clinicians to comply with isolation protocols. This is especially true for important diagnostic tools, such as stethoscopes, that play a critical role in patient care decisions. [Read more…]

Apart from many other responsibilities as a parent, it is also your responsibility to keep a check upon your kid’s oral health. Compared to the teeth of adults, kid’s teeth are more prone to damage and attacks of cavities. Thus, dentists try to convince parents to bring their child for two dental checkups every year. Parents often face a lot of trouble to take their kids for a checkup. The kids fear the pain that they might undergo during the checkup and hence refrain from visiting a dentist.

The pediatric dentists are not very different from the general dentists. Their degree and qualification are pretty much the same. However, the children dentists or the pediatrician have a sound knowledge of how to handle the kids. Therefore this proves to be beneficial for the parents while taking their kids for a dental checkup. The process of studying is also different and require proper knowledge for handling kids in certain situations. Usually, the kids suffering from ADS are sent to the pediatric dentists. This is because they have more ideas on how to handle the situation and take care of those kids.

When you are set to choose the right pediatric dentist for your kid, you will need to consider the following: [Read more…]