This has been a bit a story here over the last few years, Mr. Mogel is leaving to pursue other business interests and might have some pending legal issues to tend to as well (related reading). BD SANTA ANA, Calif., Dec. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Kenneth K. Westbrook, a leading executive...
Most Peer reviews are still done on paper and this hospital is testing the software to gather all related information to begin generating peer reviews of doctors with software. Electronic Medical records used in conjunction with the process would be a big plus if not a necessity. Peer reviews are...
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on 12-04-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, EMR, Hospital, Medical Records, EHR, Business Intelligence, software, Heatlhcare, pilot program, Peer Reviews
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 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...
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
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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on 10-30-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, R and D, C Diff, bacteria, stool transplant, Hospial acquired infections
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