Financial Worries Cause People To Delay Treatment For Heart Attacks

Lisa Nelson, RD, Hosts This Year’s Top Virtual Health Retreats Designed to Achieve Your Health and Wellness Goals

Healthy Heart Seekers: Here’s Your Chance to Find All the Missing Pieces You Need to Drastically Improve Your Health to Live the Life You Seek.

Contact Information:
Dr. Shelby-Lane
Dr. Cynthia Shelby-Lane
Tel: 800-584-4926

As reported in Harvard Business Review … According to Clay Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail … Disruptive innovation seems to have bypassed the health care industry…

…Clay Christensen’s theory predicts that entrenched companies, products and services are often “disrupted” from below by competitors who are able to meet the needs of most current customers with products that do less (but just enough) and are much, much cheaper…

… Writing in the new issue of Harvard Business Review, Christensen and colleagues Richard Bohmer and John Kenagy paint the portrait of an industry with such inbred systemic interests that it has slowed (but not erased, thank goodness) the inevitable march of disruptive innovation…

————————————————————————–

… Here is their prescription for unleashing disruption on the health care fortress.

Create—then embrace—a system where the clinician’s skill level is matched to the difficulty of the medical problem … “Rather than fight the nurse practitioners who are invading their turf, primary care physicians should move upmarket themselves, using advances in diagnostic and therapeutic technologies to perform many of the services they now refer to costly hospitals and specialists.

Invest less money in high-end, complex technologies and more in technologies that simplify complex problems … “great growth opportunities exist in the simpler tiers of the market … Rather than focus on complex solutions for complex problems, research and development need to focus on simplification”.

Create new organizations to do the disrupting. “The health care industry today is trying to preserve outmoded institutions … the history of disruptive innovations tells us that those institutions will be replaced, soon enough” …

Overcome the inertia of regulation. Instead of working to preserve the existing system, regulators need to frame their jobs differently.
Read on at: http://hbr.org/web/extras/insight-center/health-care/will-disruptiv…

Tags: christensen, disruptive, hbr, helix, innovation, open, technology, triple

Share Twitter Facebook

Michigan’s Dr. Cynthia Shelby-Lane, MD, Prescribes Laughter the Best Anti-Aging Therapy Medicine

Laughter increases your respiratory rate. You breathe faster. Your lungs expand. Your blood pressure goes up, and then it falls. It’s the same as exercising.

 

 

Dr. Cynthia A. Shelby-Lane, MD

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

PR Log (Press Release) – Mar 31, 2010 – Detroit, MI – An emergency physician in Detroit, Dr. Shelby-Lane says laughter is the best medicine.  “When you have a good, belly-jolting laugh, you’re using every large muscle in your body,” flexed the female “Patch Adams.”

Research has shown that laughter even has the ability to heal and make you healthy. There’s nothing more pleasurable than a good, hearty laugh. “The best part about laughing is that it makes you feel better,” she said.

"It’s like the same process when you’re jogging. Your heart rate goes up. You increase the blood flow to the brain which increases oxygen," Dr. Shelby-Lane tells her audiences. "Laughter increases your respiratory rate. You breathe faster. Your lungs expand. Your blood pressure goes up, and then it falls. It’s the same as exercising."

An upbeat physician who believes in healing and using humor to heal, Dr. Shelby-Lane is a firm believer that laughter is the best medicine because it is a gift.

"Stress kills. God gave us an outlet from stress through laughter. You can pray, but today you’re going to have to laugh. It doesn’t require any special equipment and the health benefits are there," adds Shelby-Lane, also a comedian, who studied at Chicago’s Second City comedy school.

As the radio-TV host of "Second Opinion" in Detroit, the doctor-jock says, “That when your life and the job gets too stressful, you’ve got to laugh.”

"It helps us to survive. It helps people cope. When you laugh, it focuses everything outward. It’s like a shot of morphine. It releases endorphins, a natural substance released in your body like pain killers. It’s happy juice in the body. It gives this euphoric type of feeling that makes you high," she says.

"Life is full of humor. The whole world is a stage. You have to find the setup. Get ready  for the punch line."

Dr. Cynthia Shelby-Lane, MD
Emergency Physician and Anti-Aging Expert
Elan Wellness LLC
43138 Dequindre
Sterling Hgts., MI  49314
Phone: 800-584-4926
Fax:  313-861-6642
www.DrShelbyLane.com

This press release was submitted by Right Now Marketing Group.

# # #

Research has shown that laughter even has the ability to heal and make you healthy. There’s nothing more pleasurable than a good, hearty laugh. “The best part about laughing is that it makes you feel better,” she said.

 

Dr. Cynthia A. Shelby-Lane, MD

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Health Care Reform Explained Your Questions Answered By: Susan Jaffe | Source: AARP Bulletin Today | April 1, 2010 * 

 WHERE WE STAND From AARP CEO A. Barry Rand: “We are thankful for the leadership, courage and hard work Members of Congress and the President demonstrated in ensuring they followed through on their commitment to older Americans.” Read more WANT TO TAKE ACTION? HealthActionNow.org Join the movement! SEE ALSO • Get the Facts on Health Reform BREAKING NEWS • Follow us on Twitter • Fan us on Facebook Need help understanding the new health care reforms? You’re not alone. The legislation is more than 2,000 pages—longer than Tolstoy’s epic novel War and Peace—and it’s crammed with new benefits, rules, penalties and projects, spread out over years. To help you find out just what it all means to you, AARP will be answering your questions about health care reform online. E-mail your questions to HCRquestions@aarp.org.

Then check back here for the answers and information you need to know. Q. I’m over 50 and have been turned away by health insurers who either won’t sell me coverage or charge so much I can’t afford to buy it, all because of my health problems. How long do I have to wait before I can get covered? A. If you have preexisting medical conditions and have been unable to get health insurance for at least six months, you should be eligible to buy coverage through a temporary federally funded program called a “high-risk pool.”

 Under the new law, this option—expected to be available by July—will cover about 2 million men and women in your situation. Older members cannot be charged more than four times what younger members pay for this coverage, and out-of-pocket expenses are limited to $5,950 for an individual or $11,900 for a family this year. This isn’t a new idea: Many states already offer high-risk pools for their residents, but some are closed to new enrollees because of high costs.

That will change and every state will be participating, thanks to an influx of $5 billion in federal aid. How much premiums will cost to join the high-risk pool, in which hospitals and doctors will participate, and exactly what will be covered are among the key details yet to be worked out. So it’s no surprise that at this point, there isn’t a telephone number the public can call for more information. This program ends in 2014, when insurance companies will be required to sell policies to anyone, regardless of their preexisting medical conditions. Q. I’m having trouble now finding a primary care doctor. Will it be harder for me to get one when millions more people get health insurance because of this new law? A.

While 32 million people will eventually be added to the rolls of the insured, that won’t happen overnight or in one fell swoop. It will take time, and about half will be insured through state health insurance exchanges, which won’t open until 2014. But you are right—it can be hard to find a primary care doctor who will accept a new patient, especially as the nation’s population grows older and demand increases. During the health reform debate, Republican critics such as Florida Sen. George LeMieux warned that a physician shortage could undermine the entire reform effort: “It’s not health care reform if the doctor is not in,” he said. The new law addresses the shortage of primary care doctors in three basic ways.

• First, primary care doctors who treat Medicare patients will receive an extra 10 percent bonus from 2011 to 2016, and earn another small bonus if they file health care quality reports with Medicare. In addition, the law adjusts Medicare payments to reflect the variations in medical costs by geographical area, which the American Medical Association says will benefit doctors in 42 states.

The measure also raises payments for family physicians who treat patients in Medicaid, the government’s health care program for low-income people. And it reduces paperwork for doctors who treat Medicare and Medicaid patients—another sweetener to entice physicians into the programs. • The second way the law tackles the shortage is by providing incentives for doctors to go into the primary care field.

For example, it expands loan forgiveness programs to defray the cost of medical school and provides money for primary care training programs at teaching hospitals. It also provides grants to medical schools to recruit and train students who will practice medicine in rural communities.

There are similar incentives for training nurses and other medical providers, which should help ease the demand for primary care doctors. • Finally, the law encourages changes in how patients are treated by creating “accountable care organizations”—physician and other medical groups—which will be paid according to how well the patient fares, rather than the number of services provided, explained Jean Silver-Isenstadt, M.D., executive director of the National Physicians Alliance. “This means that issues that can be handled over the phone, will be, and patients won’t be required to come in for an office visit just to ensure the physician gets paid,” she said.

“This will free up valuable time for doctors to see more patients.” No one knows for sure whether bonuses and other changes will build up the supply of primary care doctors fast enough to keep pace with demand. Susan Jaffe has written about health care reform for Health Affairs and covered aging issues for the Cleveland Plain Dealer.