Patient Care

Healthcare has changed immensely over the past few generations - house calls from a local family doctor are a thing of the past, and the deeply personal relationships and bonds between provider and patient are eroding with the demands of for-profit insurance. As a family practitioner focused on cradle-to-grave care, author Barb Regis has a valuable perspective on how patients can experience better outcomes.

In the course of caring for the ill or dying, health care professionals are sometimes the only ones available to provide spiritual comfort to their patients. In our modern pluralistic society, where patients could come from any number of religious traditions, it can often be difficult to find exactly the right words in these situations.

Discover how you can get more from your healthcare appointments. Whatever your reason, you can learn how to get more from your healthcare appointments. While working as a registered nurse, I was diagnosed with a degenerative autoimmune disease. The one thing that helped me the most was my experience of sitting on both sides of the desk. Just because you haven't had that experience firsthand, it doesn't mean you can't learn how to make your healthcare appointments work for you, too.

The secret to opening physician-patient communication channels, reducing physician burnout, and achieving real results for patient health outcomes lies in the embrace of technology. In Prescription Technology, author Dr. Pranathi Kondapenini shows healthcare stakeholders how current and future technology tools can be leveraged to reduce stress for the doctor and increase the patient's adoption of modified lifestyle behaviors.

Cybersecurity for Healthcare Professionals is a conversation about keeping you and your patients safe from cyberattacks. With the ever-evolving risk of all internet users becoming victim to cyber crime, the healthcare industry requires extra attention in ushering forth a new era of preventative care that includes maintaining network security and protecting patients from an often-overlooked, different kind of threat.

Over the past several years, there has been an overwhelming amount of patients coming to the emergency department for medical care. It is essential for all emergency departments to improve patient flow by identifying barriers that slow the patient flow down and improve and revise these areas.

Practicing optometrists are fully qualified, privileged, as well as obligated and responsible to their patients to provide an advanced level of primary medical eye care. Laboratory medicine and imaging is absolutely critical in caring for and managing patients.