This Week's Healthcare Online News
MobiHealthNews
Mobile operator offers remote doctor visits in Louisiana, Texas
Feb,06,2014
by+Brian Dolan
Cellular One, a mobile phone service brand that operates in various rural markets across the US, is now offering its subscribers in Texas and Louisiana on demand, mobile phone-based video visits and calls with physicians. The mobile operator is offering the service through a partnership with Hilton Head, South Carolina-based iSelectMD.
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Med City News
In healthcare industry trend, primary care goes grocery shopping
Feb,08,2014
by:+ Claire Hughes
No time to get to the doctor for that annoying sore throat or earache? You can now have that minor illness checked while shopping for groceries at two area Price Chopper stores. The Schenectady-based grocery chain is joining with Ellis Medicine to have a primary care provider -- a doctor, physician assistant or nurse practitioner -- available daily at its locations in Latham and Malta. The new health clinics, located near the pharmacy departments, are the latest in the chain's move toward marketing itself as a purveyor of health and wellness.
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Fierce Health IT
AAFP panel: Telemedicine can help expand care
Feb,07,2014
by:+Susan D. Hall
Telemedicine offers a way for doctors to treat more patients as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act brings in more people seeking care. And the quality of care is not compromised, panelists told a recent forum hosted by the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care in Washington, D.C.
"Telemedicine is not different medicine," said Jason Mitchell, M.D., director of the American Academy of Family Physicians' Center for Health IT. "It's a different interaction."
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Fierce Health Payer
Most older adults worry reform will hurt healthcare quality
Feb,07,2014
by:+Zack Budryk
Most older Americans worry about how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) may affect hospital patient care and staffing quality, according to an announcement from API Healthcare.
A December survey of 1,700 U.S. adults, commissioned by API and conducted online by Harris Interactive, found that 82 percent of Americans aged 30 and older believe nurses are spread too thin, with 69 percent concerned that millions of new patients entering the healthcare system will cause an overall decrease in quality, according to the statement.
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