Oh, the wonders of Apple’s iOS8! Now there’s no excuse for slow room turnovers:
Yeah, I can see all kinds of applications for time lapse photography, especially when it comes to improving my productivity…
-Wes
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Oh, the wonders of Apple’s iOS8! Now there’s no excuse for slow room turnovers:
Yeah, I can see all kinds of applications for time lapse photography, especially when it comes to improving my productivity…
-Wes
“One day I was Jewish, the next day I was Advocate.”
The senior cardiologist from NorthShore University HealthSystem who uttered this comment garnered a nervous laugh from everyone. While the ripple effects of the proposed mega-merger between two of the larger health care systems in Chicago, NorthShore University HealthSystem (my employer) and Advocate Health Care, remained unknown, the immediate anxiety among workers was palpable.
“What do you think, Dr. Fisher?”
Cybernetics, the scientific study of control and communication in the animal and the machine, used to be the stuff of science fiction. Today, thanks to a Faustian bargain between corporations, regulators, and politicians, it is defining medicine.
Every day, the exponential explosion of data entry and regulatory requirements doctors endure boggles the mind, all in the name of “health care.”
MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Medicare regulators are hoping to clear a backlog of reimbursement appeals by offering hospitals 68¢ on the dollar to drop their efforts.
If accepted by hospitals, the deal could help the agency work its way out of growing controversy and litigation about the delays that hospitals have faced in appealing rejected claims for inpatient reimbursement, Law360.com reported.
He left a little early to stop by the cath lab to see his patient before her procedure. Cordial “Hello’s” and “Good mornings” and “Any last questions?” were mentioned before she signed her consent. The team was working feverishly to prepare her for her procedure. “Have you met the anesthesiologist yet?” was next, and almost on cue, the anesthesiologist arrived and took over for a bit.
As I begin another year teaching EKG’s to our new residents, I find I am increasingly asking myself “Where to teach?”
Community Health Systems confirmed this week that it suffered a major hack by a group of cyber-criminals apparently operating out of China.
CHS, the 2nd-largest for-profit hospital chain in the U.S., said that the hacker obtained names, social security numbers, birth dates, telephone numbers and addresses. The theft didn’t include credit card, medical or clinical information.