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Healthcare IT News
The American Medical Association has invested $15 million to become founding partner of Health2047, a high-tech incubator that will explore innovative solutions to some of the biggest challenges facing the nation's 1.1 million physicians and their patients. "Health2047 intends to transform the way that individuals receive — and physicians deliver—care by collaborating to make system-level advances in healthcare," said Doug Given, M.D., Ph.D., chief executive of Health2047.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
High-tech human simulators have been a fixture of training for doctors and nurses for years.
Bayada Home Health Care is among those that are going a step further.
It's using childlike mannequins that simulate breathing and bowel sounds and can even turn blue during respiratory distress to train the parents of very sick or disabled children who need complex medical care at home.
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HealthDay News via Neurology Advisor
Attending physician workload is associated with lower teaching effectiveness, according to a study published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.
Dr. Majken T. Wingo, from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and colleagues examined the correlations between attending workload, teaching effectiveness, and patient safety.
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American College of Emergency Physicians via News-Medical.net
Although survival rates for people who suffer cardiac arrest outside a hospital are extremely low in most places, emergency physicians propose three interventions to improve survival rates and functional outcomes in any community and urge additional federal funding for cardiac resuscitation research in an editorial published in Annals of Emergency Medicine.
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Christina Thielst
 Social media is a powerful communication and connection tool that is being applied in healthcare environments for a range of purposes and audiences. Despite its many benefits, it does present some risks — the most common concern being the posting of private health information causing a HIPAA violation and legal liability.
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Plastics News
Zeesy Stern lay unconscious on an operating table at NYU Langone Medical Center as a surgeon removed a section of her jaw where a golf-ball-size tumor had begun to displace the teeth on the left side of her mouth. Another doctor, meanwhile, worked to extract a piece of her fibula that would be fitted like a puzzle piece into the space where her jaw once was. The goal was to remove the growth and create a new, fully functioning jaw, a feat that once took three operations over 18 months and left some patients with trouble chewing and disfigurement.
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Pocket Nurse helps thousands of health education programs operate efficiently with an extensive catalog of products that provide everything an educator needs. For more information visit pocketnurse.com, call 1-800-225-1600, or email cs@pocketnurse.com.
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The Hub
A pioneering surgical technique has allowed an amputee to attach the a prosthetic limb developed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory directly to his residual limb, enabling a greater range of motion and comfort than previously possible. This is a first for the field of prosthetics, said Michael McLoughlin, chief engineer in APL's Research and Exploratory Development Department.
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Madison Commons
Following nationwide outrage with police officers using excessive or deadly force, one of the concerns from community members and experts is officer training.
A former police officer and current scholar researching policing, Seth Stoughton described the atmosphere of training as one that heavily emphasizes officer safety in an article in The Atlantic. Rookie officers are taught the "first rule of law enforcement": an officer's main goal is to go home at the end of their shift.
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The new Simulation Education Solutions for Nursing (SESN) program, launched in partnership by the National League for Nursing (NLN) and Laerdal Medical, helps nursing programs successfully implement highly effective simulation training. Take the “Got Simulation” survey to see how your quality indicators compare to industry best practice.
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Focused on assisting hospitals to better maximize their investment in robotic surgery, Mimic has over ten years of experience providing tools and support for robotic surgery training and program management.
Mimic’s robotic surgery simulation training helps surgeons learn in a safe environment, faster and more efficiently while working towards proficiency.
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Healthcare IT News
To make it easier for people to gain access to their personal health information, the U.S. Department Health and Human Services had posted some clarifications about individuals' right under HIPAA privacy rules.
"Unfortunately, based on recent studies and our own enforcement experience, far too often individuals face obstacles to accessing their health information, even from entities required to comply with the HIPAA Privacy Rule," Jocelyn Samuels, HHS director of the Office for Civil Rights wrote. "This must change."
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Universidad Politecnica de Madrid via Medical Xpress
A team of European researchers is currently working on the development of training technologies and surgical evaluation based on laparoscopic videos assessments. Researchers from Biomedical Engineering and Telemedicine group at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid are participating, along with Jesús Usón Minimally Invasive Centre, Delft University of Technology and Leiden University Medical Centre in the development of technologies to perform more objectively assessment processes of surgeons in simulation environments.
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