PrevaHealth represents a new approach to wellness diagnostics and as might be expected, there would be a number of questions. Below are a list of the most Frequently Asked Questions and our answers.
What is PrevaHealth?
Why is PrevaHealth unique?
What is e-Speed™?
Who will interpret my scan?
Why do doctors support PrevaHealth?
What makes PrevaHealth different?
What is the difference between screening and "pre-symptomatic" disease?
Who is at risk for "pre-symptomatic" disease?
Where is PrevaHealth, what are the hours, and what can I expect when I get there?
Do I need my doctor's prescription?
What do I do with the information in my report?
What does it cost and does insurance pay for the test?
What should I know about heart disease?
What should I know about lung cancer?
What should I know about colon cancer?
What should I know about osteoporosis?
I'm not from your area - what other centers should I consider?
 
What is PrevaHealth?
PrevaHealth is the prevention and wellness center that helps you and your doctor preserve your good health. We offer patients and physicians state-of-the-art technology and information to detect major preventable diseases before symptoms arise. We also provide evidence-based consultation and resources to develop individual wellness plans (HealthPATHS) to maintain your highest quality of life.
  • PrevaHealth features the GE e-Speed™, the world's fastest Computed Tomography (CT) imaging platform.
  • PrevaHealth offers patients and their physicians the EBT HeartScan, EBT LungScan, EBT virtual colonoscopy, EBT full VascularScan, EBT non-invasive angiography, QTC bone density screening and advanced lipoprotein/metabolic blood testing.
  • Patients should discuss prevention with their physician; however, the scans are most useful for men and women between the ages of 40 and 70, especially if they have risk factors such as family histories of disease (cancer, heart disease, vascular disease or osteoporosis), diabetes, high cholesterol, hypertension, smoking, sedentary lifestyle, or high blood pressure.
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Why is PrevaHealth unique?
Our only focus is the early diagnosis and prevention of the diseases that are most likely to affect you. While hospitals and other medical facilities provide wonderful care for you when you’re sick, we specialize in helping you avoid getting sick- at least from the most prevalent and lethal diseases. Our narrow focus allows us to provide highly specialized technology and world class experts to you and your doctor with one goal in mind- preserving your good health.
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What is e-Speed™?
The e-Speed™ scanner, developed by GE HealthCare Systems, is the latest generation of diagnostic CT technology. The e-Speed™ uses patented technology called Electron Beam Tomography (EBT), a highly advanced CT technology that has no moving parts. Using a scanning electron beam rather than the standard CT x-ray tube, imaging is done at speeds up to 10 times faster and with 1/10 the radiation of other CT scanners. Advances in imaging make the e-Speed™ the "gold standard" in heart and vascular imaging, and also allows high-resolution chest, spine, and abdominal imaging.
  • The e-Speed™ is non-invasive, open, and safe, and emits the lowest radiation in the CT industry.
  • The e-Speed™ is the only imaging technology to offer 33, 50, or 100 millisecond (ms) True Temporal Resolution™ images at up to 30 frames per second. This type of capability is important because the fastest possible scan modes are required to image high and/or irregular heartbeats often associated with patients with developing or advanced heart disease.
  • The installation at PrevaHealth marks only the fifth U.S. location for the e-Speed™ and the seventh worldwide.
The e-SpeedTM's unique capabilities enable the scanner to perform high-speed, high-volume (but very low radiation) imaging to create virtually motion-free visualizations of the heart, vessels and other organs, allowing us to see premature, pre-symptomatic heart and vascular disease, lung and colon cancers, and osteoporosis. These four "diseases," which are preventable through early detection, account for 90% of the causes of death, disability, or loss of productivity in adult men and women over the age of 40. These diseases share common origins or "risk factors" and common prevention/wellness strategies.
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Who will interpret my scan?
Dr. Rumberger reads the cardiac portions of all scans. Other local specialists, trained in the interpretation of these images, read those portions within their area of expertise. At any time, they are available to your doctor for consultation regarding your results.
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Why do doctors support PrevaHealth?
Doctors recognize that, for their patients that visit PrevaHealth, they can offer better, more accurate advice and better care. That is why over one hundred local doctors combined their resources to create PrevaHealth. Coordinating their efforts is Dr. John Rumberger a world-renowned expert in preventive medicine with nearly 20 years experience in EBT technology. Dr Rumberger is available at the Center to help you and your doctor make the best use of the valuable information you’ll receive at PrevaHealth.
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What makes PrevaHealth different?
PrevaHealth is more than just a screening facility. It is a doctor-referred wellness diagnostic center specializing in the detection of common, "pre-symptomatic" diseases—cardiovascular and vascular disease, lung and colon cancers and osteoporosis. These diseases share numerous characteristics. They all have the potential to be treatable or preventable if diagnosed early and they share many risk factors, including diet, inactivity, smoking and family history, among others. Following diagnostic testing, a specific individualized wellness strategy (the HealthPATH) is provided to each patient and his or her doctor.

The good news, however, is that these diseases also share many common preventive strategies.

Often, such services are not readily available from doctors, and neither the doctor nor the patient knows where to turn. The goal of PrevaHealth is to become the single resource that empowers individuals, in partnership with their doctors, to preserve quality of life through early detection and the creation of individualized HealthPATHS.
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What is the difference between screening and "pre-symptomatic" disease?
Screening is a generic term that has both good and bad implications. For instance, should all individuals be "screened" by age 30 for cholesterol? The answer is YES. However, should all individuals with high cholesterol before age 30 be given life-long drugs to lower cholesterol? The answer is NO. Individuals being evaluated for "pre-symptomatic" disease are those who, together with their doctor, determine that age, gender, medical history, environment, lifestyle, or heredity gives them a "better-than-even chance" for premature but preventable disease—such as heart/vascular disease, lung/colon cancer, and osteoporosis. Using the knowledge of the presence or absence of early disease, specific recommendations can be made to help maintain personal health and wellness.
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Who is at risk for "pre-symptomatic" disease?
Generally, the appropriate candidates for pre-symptomatic disease testing are males, 40-60 years old, and females, 45-70 years old. A strong family history or other obvious risk factors (diabetes, smoking, sedentary lifestyle, etc.) should be considered, but the determination should always be made in consultation with a doctor. We provide precise referral guidelines that are available to patients and doctors, and our Medical Director, Dr. John Rumberger, is always available for consultation.
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Where is PrevaHealth, what are the hours, and what can I expect when I get there?

PrevaHealth is located in Dublin, Ohio in the Emerald Professional Building at 5747 Perimeter Drive, Suite 105, Dublin, Ohio 43017.

 

Our regular hours are 8:30 am to 5 pm, with our first scan scheduled at 9 and our last at 4:30. Accommodations can be made for physicians, groups or persons with special circumstances. Please call (614) 652-5888 to schedule your appointment or for more information.


When you arrive:
  • Expect to have an on-time appointment.
  • Expect to be treated in a professional and caring manner.
  • Expect to leave with prevention and wellness information specific for you as an individual.
  • Expect to be given more knowledge about yourself and your risk for developing major diseases.
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Do I need my doctor's prescription?
Ideally, yes. PrevaHealth is intended to function as an intermediary between the patient who is concerned about the potential for disease and their doctor who will be responsible for their care. The partnership between PrevaHealth and doctors in the community is the foundation of the Center's mission. If you do not have a current relationship with a doctor, call PrevaHealth at 614-652-5888 to learn about your options. Consultation directly with our medical director under established guidelines is also possible.
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What do I do with the information in my report?
Our goal is education of the referring doctor, education of the patient, and education of the community. Direct consultation with a member of our medical staff following your examination is part of the individualized HealthPATH. We also send your doctor a report within 48 hours. Each report contains specific guidelines that will help you and your doctor know the site and/or extent of our findings, specific prevention and wellness guidelines, and if further testing is recommended. We will also provide you and your doctor with information and guidance regarding the various preventive and wellness strategies based upon published research so that you'll be more effective in championing your own good health.
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What does it cost and does insurance pay for the test?
The specific cost of our scanning and consultative services can be found in the menu of services. Insurance companies generally do not cover scans for "pre-symptomatic" disease or "screening" services. In situations where you and your physician are interested in screening services, payment is due at the time of the appointment.
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What should I know about heart disease?
Heart (or cardiovascular) disease is the leading cause of death for men and women older than 35 regardless of racial or ethnic background. Heart disease is more likely to cause a female death than breast cancer.
  • In the United States, a person suffers from a coronary event nearly every 30 seconds, and one person dies from a coronary event nearly every minute of every day.
  • About half of the 1,500,000 Americans who have heart attacks each year have no warning symptoms.
  • More than 30 percent of the fatal heart attack victims have no known risk factors. The majority of those who die suddenly would not have had abnormal cholesterol or stress tests to alert them to the potential or presence of the disease.
  • Nearly 62 million people in the United States have one or more types of cardiovascular disease.
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What should I know about lung cancer?
Lung cancer is the number one cause of cancer-related deaths in America.
  • In the United States, lung cancer accounts for 32 percent of cancer deaths in men and 25 percent of cancer deaths in women.
  • If lung cancer is detected early (when the mass is less than 5 mm), the survival rate is near 80 percent. If detected later (once the mass is 30 mm), the survival rate is less than 15 percent.
  • Cigarette smoking accounts for nearly 90 percent of all lung cancers and approximately 30 percent of the U.S. population actively smoke.
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What should I know about colon cancer?
Colon cancer is the number two cause of cancer deaths in men and women and the number one cause in non-smokers.
  • The most common form of colon or rectal cancer, adenocarcinoma, has a five-year survival rate of 90 percent when the cancer is found and treated in an early stage, and the cancer is confined to the bowel wall.
  • Once the cancer has spread to the liver or lungs, the five-year survival rate is about eight percent.
  • The American Cancer Society predicts that this year there will be about 98,200 new cases and 48,100 deaths from colon cancer.
  • 75 percent of colon cancers are found in "average-risk" individuals.
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What should I know about osteoporosis?
Today, 10 million individuals already have the disease and 18 million more have low bone mass, placing them at increased risk.
  • Half of all women and one in eight men over age 50 will have an osteporotic fracture in their lifetime.
  • Osteoporosis is more common in white and Asian women, but 10 percent of African-American women over age 50 have osteoporosis and an additional 30 percent have low bone density that puts them at increased risk of developing osteoporosis.
  • Each year, osteoporosis is responsible for 300,000 hip fractures, 700,000 vertebral fractures, 250,000 wrist fractures, and 300,000 fractures at other sites. One of every five people who has a hip fracture will not survive more than one year.
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I am not from your area - what other centers should I consider?
Arlington Heights IL University of Illinois Physicians Group www.heartcheckamerica.com (800) 639-8378
Auburn Hills MI
Early Warning Healthcare Institute www.earlywarninghealth.net (248) 371-9000
Bloomington IL Bromenn Heart Check America www.heartcheckamerica.com (800) 639-8378
Boca Raton FL Health Test Scan Center www.healthtestscan.com (877) 432-7815
Carlsbad CA InnerVision Wellness Imaging www.innervisionwellness.com (760) 804-9929
Chicago IL
University of Illinois Medical Center www.heartcheckamerica.com (800) 639-8378
Creve Coeur MO
Heart Check St. Louis www.heartcheckamerica.com (800) 639-8378
Daniel Island SC
Prevecare www.prevecare.com (843) 576-3700
Indianapolis IN
Heart Scan of Indiana www.heartcheckamerica.com (800) 639-8378
Irvine CA
Heart Savers www.heartcheckamerica.com (310) 786-6600
Los Angeles CA
Heart Check America, Inc. www.heartcheckamerica.com (800) 639-8378 
New York NY
Inner Imaging www.innerimaging.com (212) 777-8900
Newport Beach CA Advanced Body of Newport Beach www.newportbodyscan.com (949) 756-8200
Pembroke FL Health Test Scan Center www.healthtestscan.com (877) 432-7816
Pittsburgh PA
Mercy Heart Institute www.heartcheckamerica.com (800) 639-8378
Princeton NJ
Princeton Longevity Center www.theplc.net (866) 794-4325 Torrance CA
Harbor-UCLA
Research and Education Institute www.rei.edu/ufct (310) 222-2773
Tucson AZ Southwest Preventive Health www.heartscanaz.com 520 299-7226
Washington DC
Heart Check Washington DC www.heartcheckamerica.com (800) 639-8378
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