Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Top 10 Reasons to go Digital in Healthcare

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In the Spirit of helping those that face the digital tidal wave of technology in healthcare with trepidation I offer the following top ten r...
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Average wait time in ED 4 hours

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Average wait time for "emergency" treatment is in excess of 4 hours. As the article puts it:  Fast Treatment Rare in Emergency Dep...

Sledding injuries can be severe

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It is probably no great surprise that sledding injuries occur in children but the severity especially in children under 4 years of age tends...

Oil spill clean up workers likely to experience more healt problems

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Previous spill clean ups show increased health problems in the workers including respiratory problems and even some chromosomal changes Oil ...
Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Brain Trauma Can Mimic Lou Gehrig’s Disease

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Fascinating study released suggesting that ALS (commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease) is mis diagnosed in many athletes suffering head...
Monday, August 16, 2010

Would you like a statin with that Burger

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Perhaps a better strategy might be not eating the burger and shake rather than offering packets of Statins to go with excess fat and food in...

FDA Warning on Fake Tourniquets

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In what is likely to be a troubling problem that will likely occur with increasing frequency the FDA has warned that there are a number of c...
Thursday, August 12, 2010

Nuance Medical Search Application Now Available

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Nuance released their latest offering for the iPhone today ( as previewed at HIMSS 2010 )- it was reviewed in several journals including A...
Tuesday, August 10, 2010

A Day in the Life

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Guest posting on Healthcare IT Central today that featured a Day in the Life of a CMIO (thanks to Gwen Darling for posting). As I state in...
Sunday, August 8, 2010

Touching Interview by Joshua of his Mom

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Joshua has Asperger's and in an interesting twist to the StoryCorp project he interviewed his mom in I this touching piece. Joshua Lit...
Friday, August 6, 2010

Payers Are Moving to Support Meaningful Use

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Insurers are backing the Meaningful use standards that will mirror the governments program of financial incentives for meaningful use  Payer...
Thursday, August 5, 2010

Reducing unecessary Tests

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NPR featured a segment recently on the reducing unnecessary scans " Requiring Doctors To Justify Scans Reduces Waste " with a simp...
Wednesday, August 4, 2010

iPhone the Preferred Choice for Doctors

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IN a study that holds little surprise to me (declaration I own no Apple stock and am not linked to them in any way aside from being a user):...
Monday, July 26, 2010

The Science of Medicine

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Medicine is complex and providing the best possible care is a challenge, and it is getting more complex on a daily basis. I'm willing to...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Meaningful Use is Here

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The Meaningful Use and Standards have finally been issued and I had the fortune of sitting down with Janet Dillione, EVP and GM of Nuance He...
Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Keeping Medicines Narrative

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Thought critical free-text physician notes are under threat in the current slew of Electronic Medical Records and are at risk of being washe...
Sunday, July 11, 2010

Clinical Narrative Integrated into the EHR

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Download now or preview on posterous Clinical Narrative Integrated into the EHR - Nick van Terheyden.pdf (1178 KB) From Health Data ...
Wednesday, June 30, 2010

iPad Cure All

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The Atlantic featured a post by David Rothman that presented an iPad Stimulus plan: A national information stimulus plan: How iPad-style tab...
Monday, June 21, 2010

NLP in Healthcare

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Along the lines of Deep Blue IBM is breaking new ground with its latest research innovation " Watson " focused no Natural Language...
Thursday, June 10, 2010

Medical Technology - The Next Generation

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Harvard business review blogger Jeff Goldsmith wrote a pretty damming write up on the healthcare technology sector: " Has the US Health...
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