Improving Asthma Outcomes
New $2.2 Million NIH Grant Explores How Telemedicine May Help Schoolchildren Control Asthma
LITTLE ROCK–Investigators at the Arkansas Children’s Hospital Research Institute (ACHRI) are embarking on a long-term project to explore whether school-based telemedicine sessions with doctors may help children in rural areas control their asthma, thanks to a 5-year, $2.2 million grant recently awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
LYNNE JETER |
Healthcare Reform Affects Medicare Patients and the Under 65 Set Differently
How to Answer Questions from Your Patients
If you’re a physician, chances are you have already fielded a bevy of questions from patients about healthcare reform. Rest assured, the questions will keep coming. Experts say that doctors need to be up to speed, and fast, about how reform will affect their patients’ healthcare and their insurance options in the future.
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
Focus on Efficiency
Bladder Health Network Handles Continence Lab Testing for Busy OB/GYN Practices
A pelvic health solution that helps women's health specialists tap into pelvic health therapies with their practice via a flexible combination of software tools, efficient services, and high-tech products has been making headway in Arkansas.
LYNNE JETER |
E-Mail Etiquette
Recently I had a conversation with another practice administrator in Little Rock about the Physician Ownership Disclosure statement we had drafted. When I offered to e-mail her a copy, she said, "Oh, we don't have e-mail at our practice, can you fax it?" No e-mail? On a 75-email day I might wish I didn't have e-mail for an instant or two but over all it is efficient, environmentally friendly, and effective – if used properly.
JENNIFER O'BRIEN |
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