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Last year when the facility shut down in Canada shutdown about 50,000 medical tests and procedures were canceled. This week Petten reactor in The Netherlands went down with technical problems. There are only 5 major facilities in the world that product Isotopes. A reactor in Belgium...
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In California we are well aware of this with the recent news with Prime Health Care being challenged on this practice as they have no contracts with the insurers and charge their published rates for out of network care, and the patient is stuck in the middle, but from the other side of the coin, some...
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In Forest Hills, New York This hospital just emerged from a 3 year bankruptcy and hopes to have a plan in place before a September 30th deadline closing takes place. BD The State Health Department is reviewing the latest proposal for revamping services at embattled Parkway Hospital in Forest...
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Identity theft has reached a new plateau. How does one feel about a story like this, as he needed the surgery to save his life and he felt there was no other alternative. What he did was not right by any shape or form, but again, when threatened with death, desperate people do desperate things...
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This is hot stuff! Recently I had an in depth interview with Dr. Patrice Milos, Chief Scientific Officer at Helicos discussing genomics and where the future is going. Helicos has the software and the genomics machine, and wouldn't this be a nice addition to run on Surface. This...
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I had a couple friends drag me away from the computer and the blog today to watch a taping of a new talk show series starting this fall. So why is this here on a medical blog, well Bonnie Hunt was an oncology nurse before moving in to the entertainment business. What she learned as a nurse...
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In case you missed this one from a few days ago, another incident of someone just being left to die in a hospital. Will be happy when articles as such no longer exist. Time to step back and focus on the quality of health care and reach a happy medium soon as the pendulum has swung too far and this...
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The procedure is not yet available in the US, but clinical trials are in place. Her doctors told her that she had congestive heart failure and that she was too high a risk and that surgery was not an option. " The Impella is threaded through the widest artery in the leg, known as the femoral...
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In a related story the hospital states they would like to have the lawsuit thrown out of court. Mr. McMahon has been in the news lately over his default on his mortgage as well, with the likes of Donald Trump to help out. No doubt he could use some of those funds he spent years handing...
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This was quite a listing, some of the hospitals I am familiar with and even Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian in Newport Beach was fined for leaving a surgical instrument inside a patient, which required a second surgery to remove. Other issues were related to death due to an overmedication,...
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This was the center to house tuberculosis patient and now it will be a hotel when finished. If you like history, this website on the Sanatorium is very interesting. There are some work in progress pictures as well as some historical pictures on the site. It was closed in 1961...
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33% found a big part of the right answer - software. Business Intelligence software for a hospital is something you almost can't live without, otherwise the audits can do what they just accomplished. The auditors will have the software to come in and audit with, so why not get a step...
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Congress had paved the way with relaxed Stark rules and regulations for subsidies to take place from the hospital level, but what's still wrong with this picture? It all comes right back around to money. Hospitals are not in a position to spend the money either, so now where do we go...
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Superbugs to cure superbugs! Not ready for prime time yet, 20 maggots for one drop of solution, I guess thank goodness maggots are in high supply, and maybe demand soon. BD http://pharmagossip.blogspot.com/2008/08/yum.html Technorati Tags: Maggots , MRSA , C Diff , Hospital Acquired...
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How important is the solvency of hospitals in the US? Just last week I commented on a recent situation here in southern California, a sting operation whereby hospitals were caught breaking the law in the search for additional funds from Medicare and Medicaid with using the homeless as reported...