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What the DART collaboration means for healthcare in Texas

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Dec 18, 2017

The road to solving our healthcare challenges may seem long and bumpy at times, but an industry-defining collaboration benefiting the employees of Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) could be the start of a more common practice for employer healthcare options...

8 elements of a successful health system strategy

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Nov 29, 2017

In A Leadership Perspective, Baylor Scott & White Health leaders share insights on healthcare industry trends, current issues and best practices. Health systems across the country are working toward a common goal: to improve the health of the communities we...

Business of Health Care: Addressing national shortage of physicians

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Sep 28, 2017

This is one of six articles in the Business of Health Care series. Amongst all the debate about how the health care system could be changed to be better, more affordable and more accessible, what’s often lost is that being able...

Business of Health Care: Next generation procedures

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Sep 19, 2017

This is one of six articles in the Business of Health Care series. When it comes to technology that makes our lives better — from computers to cell phones — the trend has been smaller, faster, better. When it comes to next...

Business of Health Care: Patient advocates

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Sep 12, 2017

This is one of six articles in the Business of Health Care series. Between doctors, nurses, technicians of various stripes and other support staff, as a patient, receiving care in a hospital can be confusing, even daunting at times — and...

Business of Health Care: Making behavioral health a priority

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Sep 7, 2017

While advances and setbacks in cancer research and weight loss seem to grab most of the health headlines, there is a massive healthcare problem in America that doesn’t get nearly the same publicity — behavioral health disorders.Nationally, about one in...

Business of Health Care: All about Medicaid

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Aug 29, 2017

This is one of six articles in the Business of Health Care series. When it comes to hot button issues in the ongoing debate over what to do about health care, there is perhaps no button hotter than Medicaid. Unfortunately, there seem...

Business of Health Care: Lowering health care costs

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Aug 23, 2017

This is one of six articles in the Business of Health Care series. For most people in the developed world, their long-term health outcome is not dependent on the amount of medical care readily available to them. Instead, environmental and lifestyle...

How paramedics are improving patient outcomes through education

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Aug 10, 2017

In 2014 Don Mashewske’s wife, Lona Re, had been hospitalized 11 times because of diabetes. Overcome with worry, Don’s weight dropped from 208 to 151 pounds. Both he and Lona Re needed help.Lona Re’s health care team at Baylor Scott...

Telehealth expands as restrictions lift in Texas

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Jul 11, 2017

A new era for Texas patients has arrived. The Lone Star State became the last to allow patients and their doctors to use smartphones and devices to replace traditional face-to-face office visits without having an existing relationship with the doctor....

Wellness program keeps seniors older, wiser and healthier

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Jun 20, 2017

Supporting healthy aging through fitness activities, preventive care and disease management is the mission of the Scott & White Wellness Center – Brenham. Established in 2015, the Center provides a suite of wellness services for older adults in Washington County,...

How Baylor Scott & White is addressing the shortage of mental health professionals

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Nov 19, 2016

The family physician’s office has become the front line of defense against mental illness. The ideal population-to-psychiatrist ratio is 4000-1. In Texas, the ratio is triple that size.Four out of five people with a behavioral health diagnosis visit a primary...

Help us bring hands-on healthcare discussions to SXSW

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Aug 8, 2016

South by Southwest® (SXSW®) is a very special conference, celebrating the convergence of the interactive, film and music industries. During a few weeks in March, it brings people from all over the world together in Austin, Texas.During SXSW, the entire...

Gender gap in medical journal first authorship

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May 23, 2016

If someone had asked me a year ago what my thoughts on the representation of women among lead authors of research studies published in high-impact medical journals were, I probably wouldn’t have had any thought at all. If pressed, I...

Prevent hospital cyberattacks to protect patient information

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Apr 18, 2016

Hollywood. It’s famous the world over for movies, celebrities, glitz, glamour and – as of February 2016 – one of the most highly publicized cyberattacks and IT security breaches in health care history.A hospital in the area bearing the Hollywood...

Deafness doesn’t stop medical student from pursuing dream

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Apr 11, 2016

Grace Lassiter, a third-year medical student at Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, removes her hearing aids before listening to a patient’s heartbeat through a stethoscope.“My older patients often would see them and mention they were thinking of...

Surgeons perform first Total Artificial Heart “bridge to transplant” in North Texas

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Mar 15, 2016

When Bryan Tyo suffered a heart attack in January, he was too sick to receive a heart transplant. A surgical team at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas instead removed his damaged heart and implanted a total artificial heart, a...

Has health become less of a priority for Americans?

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Mar 14, 2016

Americans are diligent about preventive care for their pets and vehicles. Their own bodies? Not so much.According to a Cigna preventive care survey, nine out of 10 pet owners know when their dog or cat is due for their immunizations. About 80...

The patient will see you now

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Jan 11, 2016

When it comes to getting from point A to point B locally without having to drive, all it takes is a few taps on a smartphone ridesharing app and a few minutes later, a driver is picking you up. Soon,...

Service dog proves the perfect sidekick for girl with cerebral palsy

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Oct 16, 2015

We all know dogs are man’s best friend but for some, dogs are this and so much more. Service dogs are highly trained assistance animals with the ideal temperament needed to enhance the independence of people with a broad range...