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Axial-torsion testing is vital for newly created bone screws and spinal implants
Pediatric hospitals challenged by new adult heart population
Advances in medical care sometimes present challenges on the flipside. Case in point: Over the past three decades, progressive developments in pediatric cardiac care have allowed many babies born with congenital heart disease (CHD) to survive. And longevity continues to improve. This progress, however, has brought hospitals a burgeoning patient population with tremendously complex and varied disease states.
The bulls may have run a little too far with St. Jude Medical
Of magnets and bacteria: Filtering the blood of patients with sepsis
By Tom Ulrich
When regulators are ignored
By: John Roth
Patient and family engagement in ICUs
My father died 2 months ago and now with a bit of distance from that emotional event, it’s time to further reflect on technology to support patients and families in ICUs.
BIDMC has been speaking with a major foundation about creating a cross-disciplinary, multi-institutional, open source application to turn critical care data into wisdom for patients and families.
How might it work? Let me use my father as an example.
A day in the life: A pediatric neurosurgeon’s vision
Lindsay Hoshaw contributed to this post.
Personal health record use by adolescents
In response to many questions about PHR use by adolescents, I asked Fabienne Bourgeois, the expert at Children’s Hospital Boston, to write this guest blog post –
As more and more practices and hospitals are making patient portals available to their patients, providers of adolescent patients are encountering a major hurdle: how to handle confidential adolescent information.
U.S. FDA to require proof of IEC 60601-1 3rd Edition in summer 2013
By Stewart Eisenhart, Emergo Group
The US Food and Drug Administration will begin requiring manufacturers and sponsors of electrical medical devices to show compliance with the standard ES 60601 3rd Edition starting June 30, 2013.
Optimizing electronic medication administration records
In June, BIDMC goes live with Electronic Medication Records (EMAR) on one ward to be followed
by 3 other wards, ensuring we meet our 10% Meaningful Use Stage 2 target by the reporting period October 1-December 31, 2013.
We built a web-based, mobile friendly EMAR system that includes many visual cues and seamless integration (not interfacing) with all our existing clinical information systems.