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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on 11-18-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Centricity, integration, GE Healthcare, hospital branding
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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on 11-14-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Hospital, healthcare, Desperate Hosptials, Medical Students, Galveston, Charity Care
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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on 11-10-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, healthcare, medicare, Physicians, Medical Errors, Hospitalists, Never-Never, deperate hospitals
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...
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...
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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on 10-15-2008
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
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