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This ruling puts emergency physicians in a hard spot, but protects consumers. This goes back to the Prime/Kaiser scenario and more can be found under the related reading section here. There is a separate case pending with the California Supreme Court, so the matter is not closed yet by any means...
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Hospital, health insurance, Health Care, Kaiser Permanente, Blue Cross, Balance Billing, Prime Healthcare, Venture Capital, Californa Medical Association, Insurance Reserves, Out of network care
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Sepsis is a systemic inflammatory response to infection which can progress to circulatory system dysfunction, multiple organ failure, and eventually death. Severe sepsis is common, with over 750,000 cases diagnosed in the United States each year. It is the tenth leading cause of death worldwide...
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Hospital, healthcare, microsoft, Law Suit, Server 2008, Sepsis, Vanderbilt University, amputation, kidney infection, New York hospital, acquired diseases
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One advantage to having electronic medical records, you won’t find them washing up on shore, wet, and potentially destroyed, and they are backed up usually in more than one location. BD MACHIAS, Maine — Records that were stolen from the Down East Community Hospital have been found after washing...
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With collaborating with Mayo Clinic here, this gives an example of how “branding” of methodologies and information technologies serve to create additional income from the licensing of such by incorporating information from Mayo as an example to include decision making support software at the point of...
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Not too long ago I spent a few minutes doing some protein folding on a Microsoft Surface unit, was pretty awesome. Easy enough to disinfect too with spray and you can wear gloves too. Of course this could also be used to view records as well as images. Well as much as I have been talking...
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11-18-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, Hospital, Health IT, HealthVault, software, Heatlhcare, Surface Technology, Imaging, Micorsoft
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This is a pretty new state of the art facility and the back up power didn’t come on. When you watch the raw video, it is pretty scary. I am in Orange County where the fires have been roaring as well, but I am lucky that I am not in the affected areas, however, everything smells of smoke and...
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This is sad, but the hurricane did such an insurmountable amount of damage, and now there’s not enough money to rebuild and replace and now the number of medical students is also affected as well as the number of charity cases that will be seen, same story, lack of money and funds. BD The...
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This is a good post from the Happy Hospitalists and touches on some of the same areas discussed here with reference to never-never events as well as areas of responsibility and the finances. There are some real gray areas with the never-never events and the comments made herein substantiate this...
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, healthcare, medicare, Physicians, Medical Errors, Hospitalists, Never-Never, deperate hospitals
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Physician practices challenged the organization to electronically deliver clinical results directly into its soon-to-be-installed EMR system. This move was actually challenged and brought about by the physicians who were already using electronic records. The system is not totally complete, but...
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One more hospital is subsidizing the cost of ambulatory records to integrate with the hospital system. No mention of how much of the cost will be carried by the hospital. In the related reading section below, read about how the records reach physicians, the move is through working with the...
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When you read this is sounds pretty dramatic, but the procedure is working. Family *** donors are needed. This is another hospital acquired infection that is growing almost as fast as MRSA and one to be aware of. The process involves a stool transplant and is running about a 95% cure...
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Wow, huge bills and she was able to borrow 45k but then at admitting time, the hospital wanted another 65k. This was at the MD Anderson Center in Texas. She states that she could pay for her chemotherapy if she washes out here entire retirement funds, tough decision and so now she keeps fighting...
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Are there any left? Dr. Ramona Bates discusses surgical sponges. There are 3 manufacturers competing for the business, all using RFID scanners, as as she mentions in the case of an emergency, so you have time for “set up” prior. BD With the new “never-never” provisions of Medicare and...
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Dana Blankenhorn of ZDNet does a nice write up here on his visit to the physician and yes, us “geeks” find our way there too We are probably some of the most curious patients to arrive, as we are looking constantly to see what technology is being used in the medical offices, as it is a known fact...
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10-15-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, EMR, Hospital, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, McKesson, Common User Interface, HealthVault, integration, Amalga, Stark Law, NextGen, ZDNet Healthcare
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Video update on the progress of the patient in Germany who received a double arm transplant. Progress is being made and he can open doors now but still has a ways to go, imagine having arms after 6 years with none! BD A 54-year-old German farmer who lost his arms in an accident six years...
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10-13-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, Surgery, healthcare, Patient, Transplants, Double Arm Transplant, Graft, Germany