Consolidating a patient's return-to-care to a single visit:
Consolidating a patient's return-to-care to a single visit:
When we see this as laboratorians, it's our duty to actually share this kind of information with the policy makers, the payers, and the healthcare team ... to bring it up, to say: How do we mitigate the issues that still exist in the system? Because no one wants to be seen twice when things can be done in one visit.
Chief Strategy Officer
Sonic Healthcare
The Johns Hopkins ACG® System
An introduction to this software that measures the morbidity burden in specific patient populations, using claims information and data from electronic medical records. A useful risk stratification tool.
Effect of SMS Reminders on Loss to Follow up Rates among Type 2 Diabetics in an Urban Primary Care Setting
By Joy Shuaibu, Musa Dankyau, and Joshua A. Sule
This study demonstrated the effect of SMS (short message service), or text messaging, reminders on reducing loss to follow up rates in patients with type 2 diabetes.