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Healthcare DIVE
Public health officials agree that the next major pandemic will be influenza. Are U.S. hospitals ready for it?
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Resources estimates that an infectious disease pandemic could infect 90 million Americans and kill as many as 1.9 million people. This kind of pandemic would put a strain on the country's healthcare system, sicken hospital staff and stretch hospital resources to their limits and beyond.
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Christina Thielst
 Mental health and substance abuse treatment have for too long been delivered separately from medical and surgical care. The reality is that medical conditions can contribute to behavioral health, and some mental health conditions co-exist with medical disease.
Consider the patient with a chronic medical condition or post-surgery who becomes depressed or addicted to opioids. A few years ago there was great discussion about parity in insurance coverage for medical and behavioral health conditions, and it led to important conversations and legislation.
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Observer
Erin Cronican has sensitive feet — she tells the medical students this every time they try to test her Babinski reflex to make sure her nerves are working correctly. But without fail, they dig the edge of the reflex hammer into her foot like they’ve been trained, and they hurt her.
“They are almost always mortified that they hurt somebody,” Cronican said, laughing. “But it’s the way they’ve been taught.” Cronican, an actor who founded the Actor’s Enterprise, regularly receives tests like the Babinski reflex during one of her side jobs as a standardized patient in various medical schools in New York City.
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The Associated Press via Jounral of Emergency Medical Services
Donald Trump railed against President Barack Obama's decision to bring patients with Ebola to the United States for treatment in 2014. Now that Trump is president, his administration is preparing for similar, and possibly larger-scale, evacuations. The State Department and Department of Health and Human Services said they led an unprecedented interagency drill recently to test their preparedness to deal with a new outbreak of Ebola or another deadly, highly infectious disease.
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University at Buffalo via Medical Xpress
Anxiety is a common emotion experienced by first-time parents, one that is felt even more so among parents of newborns being treated in the neonatal intensive care unit. But the key to improving confidence among parents of ill or premature infants may lie in simulated care, according to new research led by University at Buffalo nursing researcher Deborah Raines.
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MedCity News
The healthcare industry is undergoing a transformative period in which new and innovative technologies, such as artificial intelligence, are revolutionizing standard processes to improve efficiency, enhance patient experiences and develop cost-saving measures. This presents exciting opportunities for investors, but also some challenges that must be considered before making a significant investment.
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Central Michigan Life
The Industrial/Organizational Psychology program is working with Central Michigan University’s College of Medicine to research developing methods to train medical students teamwork and leadership skills in urgent situations.
Texas graduate student Bailey Schrock said nurses, physicians and physician assistants are working together to save lives and sometimes fatal errors might occur due to a lack of training on teamwork and communication. This program is designed to help prevent these errors.
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Joint Commission via Infection Control Today
Infections from a central line in children with cancer can be life-threatening. Today, with most cancer care taking place in the home, it is critical for parents to learn to care for central lines and prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections. A new study in the May 2017 issue of the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety describes how simulation training for parents of children with cancer improved their knowledge and psychomotor skills regarding central-line care.
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Journal of Neurosurgery via Medical Xpress
A collaborative team of neurosurgeons, neuroradiologists, simulation engineers and special effects experts have developed a unique tool to teach neurosurgical trainees how to perform minimally invasive surgical procedures. Using 3-D printing and Hollywood-style special effects, the team constructed a training simulation model whose physical and functional qualities closely mimic those of the head and brain structures of an adolescent human patient.
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WTKR-TV
A special Virginia National Guard response force is training in Virginia Beach in preparation for the worst.
The special response force is capable of providing support to first responders and civil authorities after a chemical, biological or nuclear incident. In Virginia Beach, the unit is undergoing an external evaluation of their ability to respond to a simulated emergency situation with collapsed structures and an improvised radioactive detonation.
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Health Data Management
More than half of U.S. physicians indicate that the health or safety of their patients was put in jeopardy because of an electronic health record system outage. That’s the finding of a new survey by SERMO, a social networking website exclusively for doctors. According to the Office of the National Coordinator for health IT, EHR outages represent a significant potential patient safety hazard that directly affects patient care, raising the likelihood of increased risk of medication errors, lack of access to images and canceled procedures.
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