�As new medical devices and screening technologies flood the market, patient tending costs continue to wax but opportunities to provide better, quicker patient care are abundant. These issues will play a central role in discussions around health care reform as the 2008 presidential election approaches.
Judd Hollander, MD, Professor and Clinical Research Director in the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine, can portion insights on the slipway in which new technologies may both improve wellness care pitch and foreshorten costs for widespread, chronic health problems.
"It's almost the perfect storm. When citizenry get sick, they cannot get a timely appointment with their primary care provider, and they have to waitress for hours to be seen in a crowded emergency department," says Hollander, who latterly completed a term as President of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM). "Meanwhile, the government and insurance carriers extend to cut payments and avoid reimbursing for services. It's intemperate to imagine either candidate can keep the ship afloat without a major change in direction."
Hollander has conducted extensive research on emergency way crowding and best practices in emergency care for patients with cardiovascular conditions such as chest pain, as considerably as traumatic injury and other acute problems. He has published more than 300 match reviewed document and studies on these and other topics.
His research provides key data to guide the government and health care industry as they create standards for measuring new technologies to ensure lineament and excogitation while lowering costs. As an attending physician in a busy metropolitan exigency room that provides care to many low-income patients, he can buoy also hash out the slipway in which patients and their caregivers struggle to access governance programs and medical care.
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