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According to the National Arthritis Data Workgroup, an estimated 6 million people in the United States report having experienced gout at some point in their lives. In fact, gout is the most common f...

Psoriasis

Psoriasis is a common skin condition affecting 2-3% of the population of the United Kingdom, where the skins replacement process is sped taking 2-6 days instead of the usual 21 - 28 days for the rep...

MediciGlobal is a specialty patient recruitment-retention organization serving the clinical trials industry

MediciGlobal is a specialty patient recruitment-retention organization serving the clinical trials industry. For more than two decades, the company has led the industry in developing innovative p...

APC stands for adenomatous polyposis coli, a form of colorectal cancer and is a tumour suppressor

APC stands for adenomatous polyposis coli, a form of colorectal cancer and is a tumour suppressor. When APC it mutated, it can cause this particular type of colorectal cancer. When not present in it...

Ventricular aneurysm

Ventricular aneurysms are usually aftereffects of myocardial infarctions. When the heart muscle (cardiac muscle) partially dies during a heart attack, a layer of muscle may survive, and being severe...

M*Modal Announces Strategic Alliances

M*Modal, a leading provider of clinical documentation and Speech Understanding™ solutions, announced a strategic alliance with Optum to deliver front-end speech understanding technology to a wid...

Mayo, UnitedHealth launch Optum Labs for clinical/claims data

The Mayo Clinic and the Optum information and technology healthcare services business of insurer UnitedHealth Group Inc. (NYSE:UNH) launched Optum Labs to evaluate combined data from insurance claims...

UnitedHealth’s Optum, Mayo Clinic Link Claims And Clinical Data For Research

UnitedHealth’s Optum teams up with the Mayo Clinic to launch a research lab, Optum Labs, that will connect claims data with clinical health records to help identify best treatment options that also...

Baylor Quality Alliance Chooses Optum's Humedica MinedShare® to Support New ACO

Baylor Quality Alliance (BQA), a wholly-controlled affiliate of Baylor Health Care System, has selected Humedica MinedShare® from Optum to improve quality of patient care and reduce costs for the...

Optum Takes Action to Support People Affected by Boston Explosions

Optum, a leading health services company, is offering a free emotional support help line for people affected by the recent explosions in Boston. The help line will provide affecte...

M*Modal and Optum Form Strategic Alliance to Enhance Clinical Documentation Improvement Efforts in Hospitals

FRANKLIN, TN -- (Marketwire) -- 03/01/13 -- M*Modal, a leading provider of clinical documentation and Speech Understanding™ solutions, today announced a strategic alliance with Optum to deliver fro...

Optum Offers Free Emotional Support Help Line for People Affected by Connecticut Shootings

Optum, a health services company, is offering a free emotional support help line for people affected by today’s tragic shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut....

Optum’s LHI Awarded Reserve Health Readiness Contract by U.S. Department of Defense

Optum’s Logistics Health Inc. (LHI) has been awarded a U.S. Department of Defense contract to serve the health needs of members of the U.S. Armed Forces through the Reserve Heal...

Algorithms for identification of Guillain-Barré Syndrome among adolescents in claims databases.

Health insurance claims databases can provide data for studies of vaccine-related Guillain-Barre' Syndrome (GBS), but not all patients with a diagnostic ICD-9-CM code for GBS have the disease. The obj...

Decomposing the Gap in Satisfaction with Provider Communication Between English- and Spanish-Speaking Hispanic Patients.

Disparities in patient-provider communication exist among racial/ethnic groups. Hispanics report the lowest satisfaction with provider communication compared to whites and blacks; these differences ma...

MULTILATERAL CONTRACTING AND PREVENTION.

Incentives created through contracts can be used as a means of decentralized control in healthcare systems to ensure more efficient healthcare. In this paper, we consider an insurer contracting with a...

The Patient-Provider Relationship in Chronic Pain.

The relationship between patient and provider has long been the subject of study within the psychotherapy literature, with the available data suggesting a modest, but reliable, association between the...

Substance Use, Sexual Identity, and Health Care Provider Use in Men Who Have Sex With Men.

This article describes the association between substance use, sexual identity, and seeing a health care provider on a regular basis for 257 men who have sex with men (MSM). Data from in-person intervi...