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GLP-1s Alone Are Not the Answer to America’s Obesity and Chronic Illness Crises

Lauren Driscoll — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 12:53:27 +0000

Obesity/overweight is a significant causal factor in chronic illness and cancer. Weight loss can help people with obesity/overweight avoid and/or manage chronic illness. GLP-1s cause weight loss. So, are GLP-1s the answer to America’s obesity and chronic illness crises? Not if we overlook a key problem at the heart of both challenges: lack of access to nutritious food in the land of plenty.

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Study: Lyft partnership reduces costs, waiting times for chronically ill seniors

Mark Taylor — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 17:33:45 +0000

In a study published Tuesday in JAMA, Anthem subsidiary CareMore Health Plan demonstrated how it collaborated with the ride service Lyft to reduce patient waiting times by 30 percent and cut per-ride costs by 32.4 percent.

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World Economic Forum videos explore healthcare transformation

Neil Versel — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 19:33:48 +0000

The World Economic Forum has identified six opportunities for transforming healthcare, and explains them in a series of video interviews with experts on each subject.

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A “Grand Bargain” To Improve Quality and Decrease Medicare Costs

Wed, 09 Oct 2013 20:09:08 +0000

There are just a few key reasons why Medicare has become inordinately expensive. There is no end in sight for cost escalation. But there are some obvious solutions and they all begin with chronic illnesses. Chronic illness – diabetes, heart failure, cancer, chronic lung disease, etc. – are increasing at exponential rates; are caused largely […]

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Medicare and the Continuing Loss of Primary Care Physicians

Tue, 24 Sep 2013 20:28:54 +0000

Primary care physicians (PCPs) have been marginalized by Medicare for decades with low reimbursement rates for routine office visits which has led to the 15-20 minute office visit with 10-12 minutes of actual “face time” and a panel of patients that well exceeds 2000. Is there a good solution to the Medicare cost and quality […]

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Boston-based company gets FDA clearance for noninvasive monitor aimed to help trauma-care clinicians treat patients in shock

Lindsey Alexander — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 17:05:57 +0000

Reflectance Medical, Inc. has received FDA 510(k) clearance for a noninvasive device that could help clinicians determine whether a patient is in shock or pre-shock or has tissue acidosis in real time at the point of injury or care. It’s the only noninvasive pHm monitoring device, and aims to save providers money by reducing ICU […]

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The Coming Disruptive and Transformational Changes in Health Care Delivery

Sat, 06 Jul 2013 21:13:16 +0000

There will be some very disruptive and some transformational changes in the way health care is delivered, not as a result of reform, but as a result of the drivers of change described previously. They included an aging population, an obese society, shortages of doctors, and emerging consumerism, among others. I interviewed in depth about […]

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Transformational and Disruptive Changes Coming to Healthcare Delivery

Mon, 27 May 2013 11:53:32 +0000

More chronic illnesses, more old age impairments, consumers demanding more quality and convenience, physicians no longer in typical private practice, and high deductible health care polices are each about to cause major changes in the practice of medicine and how it is delivered to patients. Health care delivery will change substantially in the coming years. […]

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Caring For Chronic Illnesses Should Be Different

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:58:33 +0000

Our medical care system does not deal well with chronic illnesses; it really concentrates on and is best at treating acute illnesses or trauma – as it has done for the last century and more. But more and more illnesses today are chronic and complex, lasting a patient’s lifetime and bearing very high costs. And […]

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Lifestyles Cause Most Serious Disease and Deaths

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:41:18 +0000

We all recognize that as a society we have some adverse lifestyle behaviors such as overeating a non-nutritious diet, being fairly sedentary, having chronic stress and having 20% of us still smoking. These behaviors cause the majority of the serious chronic illnesses that are rampant today– yet they are largely preventable. And it is these […]

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America Has A Health Care Paradox

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:09:22 +0000

We have a real paradox in American healthcare. On the one hand we have exceptionally well educated and well trained providers who are committed to our care. We are the envy of the world for our biomedical research prowess, funded largely by the National Institutes of Health and conducted across the county in universities and […]

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