Signing in on paper may soon be history in medical facilities as electronic kiosks similar to those at the bank or airport take over the job usually done by an army of registration clerks. – We’ve seen self-service kiosks become ubiquitous at banks
and at airports. Now they’re reaching the waiting room of doctor’s offices.
CTS (Connected Technology
Solutions), which makes the Patient PassPort Express kiosk, reports that it
has achieved 5 million patient check-ins on its machines f…
At the rate computer technology is evolving it takes some imagination to picture how digital advances will change health care in the coming years. The economic and socio-political climate trends indicate that the future could be less than idyllic. In the future health care information could be kept in a centralized databank with the complete rundown of a person’s identity; this means that whoever controls the data controls the medical, financial, and privacy issues of the individual.
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…
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Electronic health records software is meant to make keeping patient records easy to use, easy to access and easy to update. Ideally Electronic health records software will include claims filing, claims printing, patient charts, patient statements and patient updates. To be really effective Electronic health records software will include patient specific date also.
Mobile digital mammography unit, bought with the help of donors and B92, was stoned in downtown Belgrade while the doctors were examining their patients. “I had a patient. Suddenly, I heard noise and then stoning and banging started, so my patient and I had to lie on the floor”, Dr Milena GrÄić said.
GE begins trials of its Smart Patient Room health-monitoring project at New York’s Bassett Medical Center to keep hospitals sanitary and to eliminate medical errors. – GE Healthcare has received the go-ahead from the Institutional Review Board at Bassett Medical Center, in Cooperstown, N.Y., to begin testing its Smart Patient Room health-monitoring technology at the facility.
Part of GE’s Healthymagination initiative, the Smart Patient Room can determine wheth…
South Shore Hospital in Massachusetts reveals that backup files containing patient and employee information have disappeared. An investigation to determine what happened to the data is under way. – A Massachusetts hospital is under scrutiny after hundreds of thousands of patient
and employee records went missing earlier this year. The missing files
underscore the problems health care providers face when balancing patient
privacy and the need to store massive amounts of data, especially as n…
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The patient signs in then fills out a form on a clipboard and the staff enters the information.
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A 61 year-old patient died in Split on Saturday after battling a severe case of the swine flu, becoming the first victim of the virus in Croatia. The patient had a bad case of pneumonia and was breathing with the help of a respirator for several days before passing, according to local media.
With thousands of doctors, nurses, and administrators, the Memorial Hermann Healthcare System depends on the latest mobile technologies to streamline its services and deliver better patient care. iPhone and state-of-the-art medical apps like AirStrip OB let Memorial Hermann physicians keep their fingers on patients’ pulses even when they can’t be at their bedsides.
Recession shakes the world’s second-biggest department-store chain
FEW people outside Spain have heard of El Corte Ingles, a family-owned retail giant. With over €17.4 billion ($25.5 billion) in annual sales, it is Europe’s largest department-store chain and the second-biggest in the world after America’s Sears. Yet the company operates almost exclusively in Spain, a market a fraction of the size. That has left it especially vulnerable to the dire condition of the Spanish economy, which is expected to shrink by around 4% this year.
For the first time in the chain’s 70-year history, sales fell in the year ending in February by 3.5%. The wider retail industry did worse, with sales dropping 7.2% in the same period, says El Corte Ingles. Yet adjusted for new store openings, the numbers are probably less flattering. …
The first case of A/H1N1 flu virus has been confirmed in Kosovo. The patient is a 9-year-old boy who resides in London, and is spending his vacation in Priština.
Scientists have identified that a new drug that has the potential to dramatically reduce heart muscle damage after a heart attack and may lead to significantly improved patient outcomes.
Researchers at University of New South Wales say that pre-clinical trials have shown that the drug, known as Dz13, specifically targets and neutralises the gene responsible for [...]
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Experts at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have successfully removed a fist-sized tumour from the brain of an Indiana woman, using a technology that involves the fusion of four different types of images into a 3-D map of a patient’s brain.
An eight-member team from the Brain Tumor Center at the UC Neuroscience Institute carried [...]
Costa Rican President Oscar Arias has called the rival factions in Honduras to a new round of talks on Saturday to try to end the political crisis there.
Mr Arias, who is the chief mediator, also said that the Honduran factions should be "patient".
He was speaking after ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya issued an "ultimatum" to the interim government which replaced him two weeks ago.
But Mr Arias said: "It is not easy to get results in 24 hours."
The Costan Rican leader, a Nobel peace prize laureate, said: "My experience tells me that one has to be a little patient."
Earlier talks in Costa Rica failed to produce a breakthrough.
Mr Zelaya, who was bundled out of Honduras on 28 June, is widely recognised internationally as the legitimate president of Honduras.
Warning
On Monday, at a news conference in Nicaragua, Mr Zelaya said that if the interim government in Honduras did not agree to reinstate him at the next round of negotiations, he would consider the mediation effort "a failure".
He also warned that "other measures" would be taken, but was not specific, and accused the interim government in Tegucigalpa of employing delaying tactics.
The crisis in Honduras erupted after Mr Zelaya tried to hold a non-binding public consultation on whether they supported moves to change the constitution.
This could have led to an end to a ban on presidents from seeking second terms.
The new administration led by Roberto Micheletti insists that Mr Zelaya was ousted legally. It says he will not be reinstated.
Mr Zelaya’s dramatic attempt to fly back to Honduras failed earlier this month when the military blocked the runway at Tegucigalpa airport. </p
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