News tagged with medical informatics
Can pen and paper help make electronic medical records better?
Jul 20, 2009 |
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The results of a new study of the pen and paper workarounds employed by healthcare providers who use an electronic medical record system may help make electronic medical records even more useful to health-care providers and ...
Giving doctors the complete picture
Mar 06, 2009 |
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During the course of a hospitalization, patients are seen by a variety of specialists in addition to the physician who has primary responsibility for their care. However, faulty communication, inappropriate timing, inadequate ...
Protecting patient privacy the new fashioned way
Sep 25, 2008 |
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Protecting patient privacy has been recognized as the duty of health-care providers for about as long as doctors have seen patients. In 1996 that duty became a legal obligation when Congress passed the Health Insurance Portability ...
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Underwater robot probes depths for Istanbul quake clues
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
17 hours ago |
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A state-of-the-art underwater robot called BOB may hold the key to protecting millions of people around Turkey's biggest city against a massive earthquake scientists say is all but inevitable.
Thoughtful words help couples stay fighting fit
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 13, 2009 |
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Couples who bring thoughtful words to a fight release lower amounts of stress-related proteins, suggesting that rational communication between partners can ease the impact of marital conflict on the immune system.
Researchers find two units of umbilical cord blood reduce risk of leukemia recurrence
Nov 13, 2009 |
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A new study from the Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota shows that patients who have acute leukemia and are transplanted with two units of umbilical cord blood (UCB) have significantly reduced risk of the disease ...
Study reveals why certain drug combinations backfire
Nov 13, 2009 |
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Combination drug therapy has become a staple for treating many infections. For instance, doctors treat extensively drug resistant forms of tuberculosis with one drug that breaks down the pathogen's protective barriers and ...
Brain injured athletes may benefit from hypothermia research
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 13, 2009 |
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NFL players and other athletes who suffer serious or multiple concussions may benefit from ground-breaking research being conducted by scientists at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center. ...
Feds ignored Medicare scam warnings for years
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- For three years, the federal agency in charge of preventing Medicare fraud repeatedly ignored internal watchdog warnings about swindlers stealing millions of dollars by scamming several programs, documents show.
Researchers take the lead out of piezoelectrics
Nov 13, 2009 |
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There is good news for the global effort to reduce the amount of lead in the environment and for the growing array of technologies that rely upon the piezoelectric effect. A lead-free alternative to the current ...
No need to fast for cholesterol test
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Patients do not need to fast before having their cholesterol tested, a major study has found.
Government's NHS Plan linked to striking improvements in critical care
Nov 13, 2009 |
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Survival among patients in intensive care units in England has improved significantly since the implementation of the NHS Plan in 2000, finds new research published in BMJ today.
Role of Statins in Reducing H1N1 Mortality Rates Studied
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers are studying statins, the class of drugs long associated with lowering cholesterol, as a way to reduce H1N1-related deaths.
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