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Washington Hospital Center fires 11 nurses, 5 staffers – Failed to Make It To Work During Snow Storm
This really sounds very tough if you ask me and again I am just reading information in this article, but gee even TSA even reversed their decision on considering employees AWOL during the storm. On woman had trouble getting there and was late, so she spent the night to make her next shift the next…
NHS Hospital Finds Patients Neglected – Managers Preoccupied with Meeting Targets and Cutting Costs
I think the same sort of phenomenon might be happening here in the US too. When you stop and think about how busy healthcare facilities and hospitals are today it can happen. Most of our leaders don’t understand how technology is impacting our lives today as they are non participants. That’s why w…
Shrink Your Way to Prosperity – Is This the New Business Model Even Outside of Healthcare Insurance
In healthcare insurance we all certainly know what this is all about and the fact that it came to head the way it has had a lot to do with attitudes and running algorithmic codes with automation and leaving out this one little element called “communication”, not data, human. We still need this. No…
Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT Creates Web Based Registry Proto-Type Software With CCR Standards to Populate From EHR/EMR Records With Reporting Format for CMS
Many EHR and EMR programs already have this functionality built in and years ago I wrote one, so registries are nothing new but are valuable as the reports, with graphic and visuals give the MD or practice a snapshot view on their own statistics. This way they can see how many chronic illness patie…
Merck Buying Millipore in Massachusetts for $6 billion – Life Sciences and Chemicals Acquisition
As mentioned before, Merck is heavy in cash resources and now is buying US firm Millipore. One other item of interest too is that we always think of Merck as a pharma company only, when in fact their chemical division has interests outside of the drug business, as stated in this article Merck is th…
Prostitutes in Switzerland Being Trained to Use Defibrillators – Bad Publicity When Clients Die Without Attempts to Revive
We have probably all chuckled a bit as this being a way to go, but it doesn’t have to be as in Switzerland they are taking the matter seriously and ordering defibrillators to be on available at the brothels and sex clubs. A couple years ago in Orange County, California they made it the law where f…
Cellular Specialties – Wireless Hospital Healthcare Communications at HIMMS
This is certainly one way to bring all your wireless needs together with a solution company that can bridge all the major carriers. The in house wireless solution goes beyond just voice and text and can also tie in RFID support. Their system also support the use of IPhones too. BD Press …
One Senator Banning Blocks Medicare Cut and COBRA Bill – Unless Approved, MDs Get Cut and Unemployed Lose Benefits
One good thing about this senator, Jim Bunning, is the fact that he is retiring and perhaps not soon enough. His big battle was not wanting to add to the deficit, but it’s there anyway for all to work on, so let’s dig a deeper grave here for the unemployed who are also someone’s patient and make li…
The Hospital of the Future in 1950 Included a Sliding “Baby Drawer” – Kaiser Foundation
What happened to that baby drawer, did one get their finger caught? (grin). When you think of it though, really not a bad idea at all in concept. The records reach the doctor before the patient does. A medical dream come true from Henry Kaiser and Dr. Sidney Garfield of the Kaiser Foundation. …
Surgeons Can Now Train To Use the Da Vinci System for Surgery Without the Robot – RoSS Surgical Simulator
Unlike the robot itself, there’s no operating room required for the simulator and you can see an external monitor for teaching purposes. At $100,000 per machine, it’s a lot cheaper than having to practice on the actual robot. Through the software there are a number of surgical procedures that can …
The Healthcare Summit Discussion – Daily Show Summary
As usual, Jon Stewart wraps this one up pretty well. I love the part with John McCain and count my lucky prayers that the 2 seats are not reversed! BD The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c 2/25/10 in :60 Seconds www.thedailysh…
Congress Surprised With Radiation Oversights and Treatments – Software and Algorithms Are the Key to Safety Here
Imaging and diagnosis processes save many lives each year and is a part of healthcare imaging today, no matter where you are. The safety comes as suggested here with better training, but more importantly better and revised software is the key. The reason I say this is you can have the absolutely b…
More Wellness Company Mergers and Buy Outs – Wellness for Profit?
One more company with the answers for employers how to make “you” healthy. The wellness business can be very profitable and we hope the real purpose of healthcare is for helping you and not the big pocketbooks. It can be mystifying sometimes trying to figure some of this out. Do we have algori…
FDA Regulate Health IT What “Nutcase” Thought of This – Must Be A “Non Participant” Living in “Tech Denial”
I guess it’s Mr. Grassley again here who may have clout but doesn’t understand the role of Health IT and the FDA itself is in the midst of getting up to date with technology themselves! This goes back to what I have been saying for 2 years here, non participants don’t get it. Wireless Healthcare…
UnitedHealth Buys Another Wellness Company – Biometric Monitoring For Data With Employer Contracts
Wellness programs are not a bad thing, but implementation and privacy of the data is the big question here. When you have major health insurance companies who are sold on the stock exchange and are under recent fire for premium increases, you soon realize that wellness, when ownership is from compa…
