In just a 24-hour period, patients in the hospital typically see a variety of doctors, nurses, x-ray technicians and other medical professionals, and undergo a plethora of diagnostic tests – without an understanding of how all of it comes together to make them well.
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New medical device regulations implemented in Russia
By Stewart Eisenhart, Emergo Group
Russian regulators have reportedly published long-awaited changes to the country’s regulatory process for medical devices.
What a new doctor learned about medical mistakes from her mom’s death
by Marshall Allen, ProPublica
For Dr. Elaine Goodman, the strongest lessons in patient safety didn’t come from her training. They came from her mother’s death.
Goodman had just finished her first year of medical school when she found herself spending months at the bedside of her 63-year-old mom, who was battling breast cancer in the hospital.
Building a body, one organ chip at a time
It may not look like it, but it’s a lung, just in chip form.
By Tom Ulrich
They don’t look like much sitting in your hand. A few pieces of clear plastic, each smaller than an Altoids tin, with channels visible inside and holes for plugging tubing into them.
But fill them with cells and treat those cells the right way, and they turn into something amazing: tiny hearts, lungs, guts, kidneys.
The costs of not-so-shared decision making
This week’s New England Journal of Medicine contains a perspective piece by Emily Oshima Lee, M.A., and Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D. entitled "Shared Decision Making to Improve Care and Reduce Costs." The original paragraph of the piece sets the tone:
Disrupting healthcare: The unique challenges facing health tech entrepreneurs
By Jenna Rose
The year of the human?
I’ve been interviewing hospital lab folks over the past several weeks, inviting their appraisals of today’s arterial blood-gas analyzers – machines used in ORs, ERs, CVORs and critical care units. These analyzers have become smarter and smarter, not only in terms of their accuracy in reporting results, but in how they detect and correct their own imperfections – some even document their corrective actions, making it easier for the hospital to stay in compliance with regulations governing this branch of patient testing. As one interviewee said, "If it ain’t documented, it ain’t done."
Web platform tracks ADHD patients in real time
It was a chance encounter. Eugenia Chan, MD, MPH, and Eric Fleegler, MD, MPH, both worked at Boston Children’s Hospital, and had met one another once or twice, but only in passing.
Brainstorming about the future of clinical documentation
In 2013, I’m focusing on 5 major work streams:
*Meaningful Use Stage 2, including Electronic Medication Administration Records
*ICD10, including clinical documentation improvement and computer assisted coding
*Replacement of all Laboratory Information Systems
*Compliance/Regulatory priorities, including security program maturity
*Supporting the IT needs of our evolving Accountable Care Organization including analytics for care management
Children with medical complexity: Caught in a political and economic crossfire
By Jay Berry
2012 in review | Life as a Healthcare CIO
It’s the time of year that many writers reflect on the major events of the past 365 days. I’ll let the journalists cover the impact of the election, the epidemic of senseless violence, and the scandals of infidelity.
To me, there were 5 major healthcare IT events in 2012 that we need to recognize and celebrate: