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New EHR vendors and technology needed for continued innovation
Scott E. Rupp Healthcare AdministrationIn the span of the last five years, use and implementation of electronic health records in the U.S. has dramatically accelerated because of federal mandates and financial incentives directly related the meaningful use program. Because of these efforts, as well as time and resources invested by healthcare providers, electronic health records are more popular than at any point in the past and are now "the heart of health IT," according to research firm Frost & Sullivan.
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How bullying may physically alter our developing brains
Dorothy L. Tengler Medical & Allied HealthcareIt's no mystery that the brain develops before birth and continues throughout adulthood. But we may not have considered that brain development is analogous to building a house: laying the foundation, framing the rooms and installing electrical wiring. Obviously, laying a solid foundation builds a strong brain structure, while a weak foundation creates a faulty structure.
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Hope on the horizon: Addressing the causes of schizophrenia
Dorothy L. Tengler Mental HealthcareSchizophrenia is a severe, chronic and generally disabling brain and behavior disorder — a type of illness or psychosis, causing severe mental disturbances that disrupt normal thoughts, speech and behavior. In the journey to uncover the cause of this age-old disorder, a new theory is being explored — the role of C-reactive protein.
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Coaching: Breaking it down for healthcare leaders
Christina Thielst Healthcare AdministrationGreat leaders are sometimes measured by how deeply they have impacted the lives of others, and the ability to coach those around them is a common characteristic. What is coaching? It is really just a tool for effective communication between a leader and those they lead.
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Disparities in cervical cancer show education is still needed
Jessica Taylor Medical & Allied HealthcareThe Affordable Care Act requires health insurers to provide all cancer screenings for free, with no charge to the patient. If this is the case, why are a majority of women still not getting screened for cervical cancer?
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Research: American doctors are ‘drowning in paperwork’
Scott E. Rupp Healthcare AdministrationAccording to a new study, U.S. doctors spend nearly 17 percent of their working lives on nonpatient-related paperwork — time that might otherwise be spent caring for patients. The findings also suggest that the more time doctors spend on such tasks, the unhappier they are about having chosen medicine as a career.
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Final Rule 2015: What PTs need to know
Brooke Andrus Medical & Allied HealthcareThe summary of this year's Final Rule is hot off the presses, which means that — among other things — we now know the details regarding the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) for 2015. For those who have been following the PQRS saga since the program first came into being in 2007, it should come as no surprise that Medicare has yet again upped the ante for compliance.
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The difficulty of diagnosing patients during an outbreak
Lauren Swan Medical & Allied HealthcareThe Ebola outbreak in West Africa is of huge concern to the rest of the world, and that isn't unwarranted. In its wake, however, there have been a lot of questions regarding on-field testing for the disease and why there hasn't been a vaccine created yet.
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‘Dishing’ out a new test to improve breast cancer treatment
Dorothy L. Tengler Medical & Allied HealthcareExcluding cancers of the skin, breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the United States, accounting for 29 percent of newly diagnosed cancers. Breast cancer incidence and death rates generally increase with age, and 79 percent of new cases and 88 percent of breast cancer deaths occur in women 50 years of age and older.
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Prevention is key: Workplace violence in the hospital
Keith Carlson Healthcare AdministrationWith the recent news of several nurses in a Minnesota hospital being injured by a patient wielding a metal bar, the issue of healthcare workers facing violence in the workplace is again receiving media scrutiny. Hospitalized individuals are certainly under significant stress when facing recovery and treatment from acute illnesses or injuries, and intense emotions may often be at play.
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