ADVISORY/Institute of Medicine Says U.S. Health Care Needs Improvement.Business Editors ADVISORY... --(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 1, 2001 TOPIC: A report from the Institute of Medicine states that although effective treatments for diabetes, heart disease and breast cancer exist, patients allegedly are not receiving these treatments due to the difficulty in finding a physician that understands and uses the treatments, according to a USAToday.com article. The Institute of Medicine reportedly recommends improvements such as giving patients more information about their health and having doctors keep up-to-date on the latest scientific evidence instead of using outdated treatments. The institute also suggests that doctors email or have telephone consultations with patients who need nonurgent medical care. EXPERTS: ExpertSource can offer several highly qualified experts to comment on this story: Professor Claire Fagin Claire M. Fagin RN, Ph.D, FAAN FRCN is an American nurse, educator, academic, and consultant. She is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Science from Wagner College, a Master's in Nursing from Columbia University and a Ph. , of the University of Pennsylvania (body, education) University of Pennsylvania - The home of ENIAC and Machiavelli. http://upenn.edu/. Address: Philadelphia, PA, USA. School of Nursing, is a member of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, and of its Board of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, and the Expert Panel on Nursing of the World Health Organization. Her areas of expertise include consumer health issues and quality care. 215/898-9581; 215/898-5000 (University PR Phone) Dr. James Moffat James Moffat (born 1922 in Australia, died 1993 in England), was an author who wrote under several pen names. He produced many pulp novels for the United Kingdom publishing house New English Library during the 1970s. is the senior vice president for medical affairs at AvMed Health Plan. Dr. Moffat is a licensed family physician with experience in the practice of Medicine (Calif.) and responsibility for medical policy development in not-for-profit HMOs. PR: Valerie Rubin, AvMed Director of Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most (vrubin@avmed.org). John R. Dwyer Jr. is chief executive officer of e-MEDx and an expert in healthcare IT solutions relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc disease management and patient satisfaction. He founded e-MEDx, a leading provider of Web-based care management solutions, in 1999 to remedy the inefficiencies in disease management procedures, which he witnessed firsthand first·hand adj. Received from the original source: firsthand information. first through his mother's treatment for diabetes. Dwyer also served as executive vice president, chief financial officer and a member of the board of directors for Doctors Health, Inc., the largest globally capitated Medicare physician practice management company in the Mid-Atlantic region. During his time with the company, he managed 350 physicians and a 75,000 "at-risk" patient population. PR: Brian Parrish (bparrish@abovomarketing.com). Dr. William A. Knaus, MD, FACP FACP Fellow of the American College of Physicians. FACP abbr. 1. Fellow of the American College of Physicians 2. Fellow of the American College of Prosthodontists is a founder of APACHE Medical Systems and its chief scientific advisor. Dr. Knaus is recognized as the leading developer of the internationally known APACHE prognostic scoring system prognostic scoring system Any scoring to help predict outcome(s) and identify Pts and clinical situations in which the potential value of intensive care is low, while the burden of therapy is high, providing a numerical prediction of mortality. . As founding chair of the Department of Health Evaluation Sciences at the University of Virginia (UV) School of Medicine Health Sciences Center in Charlottesville, Va., Dr. Knaus is devoted to the discovery and development of new approaches to patient description, prognosis prognosis /prog·no·sis/ (prog-no´sis) a forecast of the probable course and outcome of a disorder.prognos´tic prog·no·sis n. pl. prog·no·ses 1. , clinical, and genetic risk assessment, information transfer, medical practice, research strategies, and their use in the development of clinical decision support tools. At APACHE, Dr. Knaus' passion for the advancement of health care through the use of customer need and data-driven decision tools is being translated into strategies designed to help clinicians and consumers around the world establish a framework for decision making, evaluate alternatives, and build a list of options that will insure Insure can mean:
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