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Impact Of Medicaid Expansion On Substance Abuse Treatment, Kyle Chapman

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Introduction: The Medicaid expansion has insured millions of Americans since the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010. Among this newly insured population, many of the enrollees have been diagnosed with a substance abuse disorder. Patients who have a substance use disorder diagnosis typically have multiple conditions that are treated simultaneously. When these patients have to seek healthcare services they are often uninsured. Unfortunately, since the patients are uninsured, the most frequent healthcare access points have been through admissions to more expensive areas of healthcare delivery such as the emergency department and subsequent inpatient services. The goals of the …

Telemedicine And Its Utilization In The Management Of Chronic Heart Failure Patients, Adejoke Sotome, Chirra Pooja

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Introduction: Telemedicine is well developed and very useful for heart failure patients in emergencies. Many cases of heart failures are due to inability of reaching the physicians on time and failure of assessing the patient disease condition at earlier stage.

Methodology: The methodology for this study was a literature review. Electronic databases used included EBSCO Host, Google Scholar, Academic Search Premier, PubMed, ProQuest, and Marshall Digital Scholar. A total of 32 sources were referenced.

Results: This literature review examined several studies and research articles on the significance of Telemedicine in the treatment of chronic heart failure patients with …