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The nursing job outlook for 2015
Keith Carlson Medical & Allied HealthcareWith 2015 poised to begin, economic forecasts for the new year are beginning to make themselves known, and the employment outlook in healthcare is a crucial aspect of those prognostications. A recent report from CareerBuilder.com places the position of registered nurse as having the third-best employment outlook of the site's top 10 chosen occupations.
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New cardiac monitor process reduces alarm fatigue in hospitals
Lynn Hetzler Medical & Allied HealthcareA hospital monitor alarm can save a patient's life, as a single beep or high-pitched wail spurs doctors and nurses into action. However, the chorus of alarms that go off in the typical hospital ward can be mind-numbing to healthcare workers. The constant din of alarms can desensitize them, leading to "alarm fatigue" where audible alerts fail to catch the attention of workers.
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CMS extension could spell trouble for meaningful use program
Scott E. Rupp Healthcare AdministrationThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has extended the meaningful use attestation period by another month to Dec. 31 of this year. The deadline had been Nov. 30. The extension is for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals to attest to meaningful use for the Medicare EHR program reporting period 2014.
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The long road to health information exchange
Christina Thielst Healthcare AdministrationHealth information exchange (HIE) is turning out to be one of those really long journeys in which you hear the kids in the back seat asking, "Are we there yet?" while the driver keeps saying, "Almost." The Office of the National Coordinator is focusing on the next 10 years with its soon-to-be-released road map to reach interoperability.
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Severe stroke survival may depend on treatment facility volume
Dorothy L. Tengler Healthcare AdministrationEmergent management of subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is critical. An estimated 10-15 percent of patients die before reaching the hospital. Moreover, mortality rate reaches as high as 40 percent within the first week, and about 50 percent of patients who suffered an SAH die in the first six months.
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Have faith, early adopters: Telehealth’s time is finally here
Karen R. Thomas Medical & Allied HealthcareIn the tech world, the early-adoption phase of new software and devices is always filled with the anticipation and excitement of users wondering what the new technology will be like, how it will make life easier and how it might change the industry. People stand in lines for days waiting for the release of updated technology products.
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Where has all the money gone in healthcare?
Mike Wokasch PharmaceuticalHealthcare costs keep going up with fingers often pointed at drug companies. At the same time, the pharmaceutical industry has decades of success delivering safer and more effective drugs to prevent and treat diseases that previously accounted for debilitating sickness and often death.
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Improving communications: What can hospitals learn from hotels?
Bambi Majumdar Healthcare AdministrationWe live in an age where communication can make or break a deal. Doing it right has never been so important, yet there are more misunderstandings and misinterpretations all around. Ironic, isn't it? Since most have us become slaves to technology and instant communication, things actually can go wrong faster than ever before.
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The role of simulation in the reduction of medical errors
Joan Spitrey Medical & Allied HealthcareIf you have taken a CPR class in the last few decades, you are familiar with Resusci Anne, the manikin used for learning CPR. The first Anne was invented to provide life-like training in the 1960s, and her soft helpless face was to inspire the rescuer to want to help the "dead" person.
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Use of cloud, mobility and big data growing, but security is a concern
Scott E. Rupp Science & TechnologyFindings from Dell's first Global Technology Adoption Index have uncovered a plethora of data that provides a number of key insights into how organizations are approaching security, cloud, mobility and big data to drive their businesses. The results include responses from more than 2,000 global organizations who overwhelmingly say that security is the biggest concern in IT solutions.
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