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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on 10-13-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, Surgery, healthcare, Patient, Transplants, Double Arm Transplant, Graft, Germany
This is probably one of the sweetest subsidized arrangements with 60% of the cost being absorbed by the hospital, which is by the way one of the best in Orange County and I have worked on fundraisers for the hospital in the past. Doctors choosing ECW will have remote access using the application...
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on 10-07-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, EMR, Hospital, Medical Records, EHR, Patient, Orange County, Stark Law, Healtcare, Hoag Hospital, integrated healthcare, Eclinical Works
The “Informed patient” did his homework and found a solution -he found the “Informed MD” or neurosurgeon in this case. What are “Informed Patients looking for these days, the “Informed MD”. So far, after the procedure, he’s happy. It doesn’t hurt today to be “read up” both from the...