Automated telephone calls can increase colorectal cancer screening rates at a cost of about $40 per additional screen. Objectives: To estimate the cost-effectiveness of an automated telephone ...

Objective. Many patients do not receive guideline-recommended care for diabetes and other chronic conditions. Automated speech-recognition telephone outreach to supplement in-person physician-patient ...

PORTLAND, Ore., June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Simple, automated telephone reminders can increase colon cancer screening rates by 30 percent, according to a Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research study ...

Automated phone call programs can be an effective way for health systems to ensure that older adults are getting important information about care plans or to notify them of follow-up appointments post ...

An automated system for insuring monitoring of myelosuppression in patients receiving self-administered oral chemotherapy. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2012 Quality Care Symposium. This ...

Our phone lines are always busy and reception staff can sometimes be overwhelmed with callers. This is because we have five sites across Liverpool and are one of the largest practices in the ...

Simple, automated telephone reminders can increase colon cancer screening rates by 30 percent, according to a Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research study funded by the National Cancer Institute ...

Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “An automated telephone answering system (‘TAS’) may be used to provide user-specific and other ...

Patients who received automated telephone calls inviting them to get their blood pressure checked at a walk-in clinic were more likely to have controlled hypertension than patients who did not receive ...

Automated telephone call reminders helped people with high blood pressure to lower their readings compared with people who did not receive the calls, researchers in Montreal found. In the one-year ...

Gozo Channel Co. has implemented a new automated telephone system in order to facilitate and enhance timely enquiries on schedule and current operations status, especially during inclement weather or ...