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According to a recent report from Thomson Reuters, over the next ten years, the U.S. healthcare industry could eliminate over $3.5 trillion in waste by addressing some serious operational deficiencies. This report’s high visibility within the medical industry will undoubtedly make waves throughout the medical equipment industry as well.

Reducing waste in the healthcare system will do more than cut the cost of health-related services and change the way medical care is delivered; it could also help reduce the cost of health insurance and improve the quality of patient care.

The study illustrates some key methods for incorporating “best practices” into the healthcare industry’s organizational structure, with a goal of cutting waste by up to 5 percent each year over the next decade.

The strategies proposed in the Thomson-Reuters report include:

* Engaging consumers in discussions with caregivers so they understand both the risks and value associated with certain treatment options
* Manage disease and promote wellness by encouraging patients to remain actively engaged, along with their doctors, in all aspects of maintaining good health, including personal behavior, early detection, disease prevention and seeking appropriate care for chronic illnesses.
* Coordinate care by ensuring providers have access to a patient’s complete medical history, in order to avoid inappropriate treatment and/or duplication of tests. This can be done by through enterprise-wide electronic medical records and corresponding medical equipment upgrades.
* Reduce fraud using computerized systems that will track data irregularities, breaches in payments, duplication and misuse of Medicaid funds.
* Improve patient safety and the quality of care by reducing preventable medical errors using evidence-based “best practices”, safer medical equipment and better-trained staff.

Reducing waste in the nation’s healthcare system is dependent upon the industry’s readiness to identify and broadly implement measurable strategies across the medical community.

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One of the most important questions for cancer researchers has been “How do you develop a drug that targets cancer cells without destroying healthy cells?” This question has spawned the development of new medical equipment and pharmaceuticals that will revolutionize cancer treatment.

Thanks to recent developments in the field of molecular targeting, cancer specialists are able to design drugs that zero in on the molecular pathways of the disease itself without disrupting normal tissues and cells. Not only are these targeted drugs more effective than current medications, they are far less toxic to the body. By eliminating malignant tumors in such a targeted manner, patients are able to maintain a better quality of life without the adverse effects of chemotherapy treatment.

As pharmaceutical companies and the medical equipment industry strive to understand the circuitry of biological interactions at the molecular level, they are able to shut down one molecular pathway without disrupting another.

One company that has revolutionized this process is Polysciences, Inc. Their CellVue kits use proprietary technology to label targeted cells with fluorescent dye in the lipid, or plasma membranes of living cells. These dying kits are versatile enough to be used in on any cell type or bioparticle with minimal cell-to-cell transfer. Practitioners are able to put these kits to use with medical equipment like flow cytometers and highly specialized imaging medical equipment.

Like many other innovative medical techniques being used today, molecular targeting allows scientists and doctors to minimize the impact of many high-risk medical treatments and use information technology to change the way they look at disease.

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