After teachers, who have been on strike for five days now, health care and police unions have also announced strikes.
The Independent Trade Union of Police has announced that police officers will go on strike on February 3.
Posts Tagged ‘doctors’
Hundreds of Bihar junior doctors strike work
January 31st, 2011 |
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Hundreds of junior doctors in Bihar went on an indefinite strike Monday, demanding action against a Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) legislator and his bodyguard who fired at three interns of a hospital in Gaya district. Three interns of the Anugrah Narain Magadh Medical College Hospital (ANMCH) in Gaya, about 100 km from here, were injured [...]
DocCom, a UK ‘Facebook for Doctors,’ Seeks Investors in Silicon Valley
January 19th, 2011 |
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DocCom, a social networking firm for doctors and clinicians, participated in the Future Health Mission, in which 19 UK companies toured San Francisco Bay’s Silicon Valley region seeking investors. – Enterprise social-networking firm DocCom Solutions and 18 other UK health care
companies toured Silicon Valley the week of Jan. 13, as part of the 2011 UK Future Health Mission, to drum
up support for their work in health care and find potential investors to expand
into the United States.
Billi…
10 Doctors of Rock
January 10th, 2011 |
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We normally don’t think of the average rocker as the smartest guy on the block. But sometimes our stereotypes can get shattered. Check out these rockers: Doctors of Rock: 10 Musicians with PhDs
VA Doctors Used Unsecure Yahoo Calendar to Store Patient Data
December 27th, 2010 |
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In its monthly report to Congress, the Veteran Affairs Department listed a Yahoo calendar containing patient data among a number of data security lapses it dealt with. – The Veteran Affairs Department ordered doctors to
immediately stop using a Yahoo Calendar Application to store confidential data.
Notifications of a possible security breach have been sent to nearly 900
affected patients, according to VAs monthly
report to Congress on Dec. 22.
The report called…
Naidu continues fast for farmers, keeps doctors away
December 22nd, 2010 |
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Former Andhra Pradesh chief minister and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) head N. Chandrababu Naidu’s indefinite fast demanding a relief package for farmers entered the sixth day Wednesday as attempts by doctors to administer fluids to him failed. Naidu has been resisting the attempts by doctors at the Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) to forcibly [...]
Enclave doctors organize “artistic protest”
November 25th, 2010 |
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Doctors at the health center of the Serb enclave of GraÄanica in Kosovo protested against the conditions in which they are forced to work. According to reports, they organized a 1-minute performance on Wednesday to draw attention to the fact that their landline and cell phones have been disconnected for two months and that the situation is becoming intolerable.
IBM, Aetna, Medens Build Health Network for Doctors in Puerto Rico
November 23rd, 2010 |
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IBM and Aetna have built a health information exchange in Puerto Rico with help from Medens’ EHR cloud computing platform. – IBM and ActiveHealth, a unit of Aetna,
along with Medens, a cloud computing and health care IT company based in Puerto
Rico, have launched a cloud health care network for some 11,000 physicians
working in the commonwealth.
Medens will provide what it says is the first medical cloud computing
ne…
MJ’s mum may hold key to doctor’s fate in mystery death case
November 11th, 2010 |
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Texas Medical Board is seeking help from late Michael Jackson’s mother Katherine against King of Pop’s doctor Dr. Conrad Murray, it has emerged. The Medical Board wants for a full copy of singer”s medical records, for the purpose of initiating license suspension/revocation proceedings. But someone needs to release the records, and the board thinks Katherine [...]
Cigna, Usablenet Roll Out Mobile Directory of Doctors, Pharmacies
October 29th, 2010 |
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Cigna members can use the Usablenet-powered mobile portal to locate doctors or pharmacies and research drug prices. – Health plan provider Cigna says its mobile
Website, powered by Usablenet, now allows members to search locations
of medical facilities and research information on
prescriptions.
Cigna Mobile allows customers to locate care
centers, physicians, specialists and pharmacies using a mobile GPS
…
California Telehealth Network Connects Doctors to Patients
August 20th, 2010 |
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The California Telehealth Network is an effort to create the nation’s largest health care IT wireless infrastructure so doctors can monitor patients remotely, particularly patients in rural areas. – California has formed what it
says is the United States’
largest telehealth
network to deliver medical care to patients in rural and underserved areas.
At a news conference at the University of California Davis Cancer Center, in
Sacramento, Calif.,
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and U.S. CTO Ane…
Doctors Embrace Smartphones, but Struggle to Connect with Colleagues, Study Says
July 28th, 2010 |
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The results of a Spyglass Consulting Group report show that 94 percent of physicians are using smartphones. However, 78 percent of physicians reported they have difficulty with timely smartphone communication with colleagues. – A
study by Menlo Park, Calif.-based Spyglass Consulting Group revealed a fragmented smartphone
landscape among health care professionals, yet 94 percent of physicians are now
using the mobile phones.
Physicians
have widely adopted smartphones yet still have difficulty communicating with
coll…
12 Criminally Insane Real-World Medical Professionals
April 1st, 2010 |
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These individuals walked into hospitals with deadly intentions, often abusing and killing their patients. The motives of murder by a medical professional aren’t easy to comprehend, but these are history’s 12 most criminally insane real-world medical professionals.


Doctors Say Narrative Missing from Proposed EHR Regulations
January 14th, 2010 |
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Physicians are pushing the federal Health Human Services Department to include physician narratives in the proposed regulations for electronic health records. Doctors use the narrative to expand on an assessment and offer subjective and objective evaluations of a case, as well as outline the treatment plan. Some doctors use speech recognition technology for their narratives in EHR systems. The public has 60 days to comment on the HHS regulations.
– The Obama administration’s push for subsidized electronic health records has entered a new phase, with the public getting two months to comment on recently proposed regulations.
However, some physicians are saying that a key requirement is missing and are pressing the federal Health amp; Human Ser…
Orissa doctors strike!
December 18th, 2009 |
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Doctors who are working under Orissa Medical Service Association (OMSA) in the government hospitals in Orissa have deferred the strike for cease work for two months which was scheduled to begin today, following talks with the Government.
About 2,500 doctors of government hospitals across Orissa have been demanding the implementation of a defined promotion structure (DPS).
MadhuSudan [...]
Doctors charged in Anna Nicole Smith case fight to keep their licences
December 8th, 2009 |
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Two doctors charged with overprescribing sedatives and opiates to Anna Nicole Smith are fighting to keep their medical licences while their trial is pending. A California Medical Board spokeswoman says the board is asking that licences for Dr. Sandeep Kapoor and Dr. Khristine Eroshevich be
How to talk back to your doctor? Posted By : Peter Yellowlees
October 1st, 2009 |
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This article describes how patients can talk back to their doctors by learning more about their health and using the Internet for communication and information searching.
Doctors Create New Nose For Woman By Growing It On Her Arm (VIDEO)
July 30th, 2009 |
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Fox News has an uplifting report about how doctors were able to create a new nose for a woman from Guyana by first growing it on her arm. The young woman was involved in a drive-by shooting in her native country, and through the help of some …