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The Los Angeles Kaiser facility takes care of some of the sickest patients and thus the nurses feel some additional attention is needed here. There has not been a strike at the facility in over 20 years. The policies with nurse staffing according to this article are different in southern...
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This is a combination post of a couple of new things going on with St. Josephs Health Systems. First of all the Allscripts Software as a Service will be rolled out to help track patients through their system and secondly the Home care unit will provide a medical records system for hospice and those...
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Mon, Feb 28 2011
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It appears medical record vendors as mentioned in a prior post have found another marketing partner with the REC centers offering discounts for purchase with licensing and now with HIMSS involved I’m not exactly sure how this will add more value, but perhaps more knowledge about the individual medical...
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Mon, Feb 21 2011
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Well here you have it, an admittance of not being up to speed with technology and again this goes back to the prior administration and their neglect of technology with the “non participants”. The US Government is paying for this in almost every department too with having to get their IT infrastructure...
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Thu, Feb 17 2011
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For those of you who might wonder why is the computer called “Watson”, here's little background that might lead to some interesting reading. Dr. Watson has been around a long time. Actually the first Dr. Watson appeared with IBM as a program used with dos and and other networking platforms...
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Thu, Feb 17 2011
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Every time you turn around we keep hearing of yet another new contract for the VA and DOD and here’s more. Are they going to give up on their own and get one from McKesson? In the meantime there’s a lot of development going on with VistA too, so this is incredibly confusing and seems like...
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Wed, Feb 9 2011
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Well obviously this is spreading to the government entities and we are seeing some verification here too on the need to collaborate. Everyone is stuck on the “Innovation” word but really it takes care of itself, collaboration is what is needed. All you need to do is put out what areas you...
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Sun, Feb 6 2011
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eMix is yet one more way to use a secure web based cloud product to exchange medical records and their emphasis seems to be with medical images. There are a few others who have entered this field of late. The service reminds me of one that I used to send documents in a secure method via email called...
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Sat, Feb 5 2011
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The product is made in Germany and when you look at the quality of the imagining it looks pretty good. Images can be connected to patient files and notes added as well as emailing to the patient, another doctor, etc. The device just slides on to the back of the Iphone. This would seem...
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Wed, Feb 2 2011
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It has taken a little while to get started and now we have some information making to the news today relative to the funding for the Regional Extension Centers from the National ONC group. These are groups that are not part of the government but rather are independent and receive funs to help doctors...
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Wed, Jan 26 2011
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Part of the program t to help physicians convert to electronic medical records was the establishment of Regional Extension Centers across the US to give doctors a helping hand. They come in different shapes and sizes and some services are free and some are low cost. Health Information Technology...
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Mon, Jan 24 2011
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The software will be run on Dell electronic equipment and this will allow experts to test drive and write up their evaluations and opinions. This is not a certification service at all, just one that allows testing and role playing to allow for additional opinions to help in the selection of an...
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Tue, Jan 18 2011
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No real technology needed to break in this time when employees hand out their email addresses and log on information. If the hacker said he was within the hospital system working in IT, then he would have known this information or would have worked with someone in the department who had access...
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Sun, Jan 16 2011
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Here’s a story from a patient who had double hip replacement surgery at the Kaiser facility in Irvine, California. I have mentioned before the registry of valuable information that Kaiser Permanente gathers on devices and outcomes. The information contained also includes outcomes as gathered...
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Sat, Jan 15 2011
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Last year at this time, Varian was not a real popular name due to the over exposure of radiation associated with their units and with the FDA approval I might guess that software certification was probably even more stringent at the FDA before approval was given, or at least it should have been. ...
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Mon, Jan 10 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Education, Cancer, FDA, Heatlh IT, software, Heatlhcare, Safety, Algorithms, New York, Treatment plans, Varian System, accountability, radation treatment