Heparin and safety still needs to be monitored for safety. In case you missed what happened to Dennis Quaid and his wife, here’s a couple links to refresh. Dennis Quaid receives settlement from Cedars-Sinai – Medical Errors Quaid's Twins Got 2,000X Dosage: Probe The hospital is investigating...
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CBS did a very good in depth report here and one of the most interesting portions is the actual look at a Kaiser facility in Santa Clara, showing some real time use and answering some questions on how and why it works. Yes they made one huge investment and I remember all the information on the...
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This is great and nice that celebrities are also speaking out. The related reading below has a history of all the past articles about Dennis McQuaid’s story and problems at the hospital, medical errors. We all have so much on our plates today, there is no way we can manually handle the workloads...
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Two of the biggest causes today for medical errors are lack of information and distraction, yes distraction can very well do it. As we are all so much busier today with tough economic times and the additional flow of information to handle, we need “good filters”, as earlier in another post I had...
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The lawsuit against Baxter still to come, but this goes along with really needing technology and trained staff to work with such in hospitals and doctor’s offices. This could happen to anyone, anywhere. With the deluge of information just due to changes in healthcare and the availability...
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The conference is being held later this year, and April certainly can bear a little bit better weather for Chicago than February. “ Keep your schedule on track for HIMSS09 in Chicago from April 4-8, 2009. The 2009 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition comes just 5 weeks later than last year's...
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