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CNN
You've heard those hospital horror stories where the surgeon removes the wrong body part or operates on the wrong patient or accidentally leaves medical equipment in the person they were operating on.
Even scarier, perhaps, is a new study in the latest edition of BMJ suggesting most medical errors go unobserved, at least in the official record.
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University of Tennessee via News-Medical.net
Sheila Taylor leaned in to see the baby's heartbeat rhythm. She watched as the baby's heartbeat line fell without a corresponding spike showing the mother's uterus contracting down on it.
"That looks ugly," she murmured.
This time, though, there was no baby in distress. No quick phone call to a doctor. No hurried Caesarean delivery. It was all just a University of Tennessee iPad simulation app to train labor and delivery nurses.
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EMS1.com
You know the drill: There’s a new piece of equipment and everyone has to get in-serviced on it. The agency wants you to do it while you’re on duty, and supplies the online video training with a post test to make sure you absorb the key points.
Should you get paid for completing that training?
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WBUR (opinion)
Most doctors never forget the paralyzing terror of their first invasive procedure.
Dr. Charles Pozner, of Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, recalls the first time he placed a central line, which involves sticking an 8-inch-long needle into a patient’s jugular vein to place an intravenous line. He had never even seen it done before, but a chief resident offered him the opportunity after a long day working together.
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Visitors to Gwinnett Technical College in mid-April may have been surprised to find themselves not on a college campus but in the middle of a hospital zone. From EMTs helping blood-covered accident victims to a surgery in progress, various areas of the Lawrenceville, Georgia, campus became a medical center for the day during a simulation designed to give students in the Health Sciences program the feel of working with real patients in critical situations.
For years, individual programs including radiology, nursing, ultrasound and respiratory care have hosted their own simulation days. But four years ago, faculty brainstormed about combining their individual events into one.
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FierceHealthcare
Seventeen years after the National Patient Safety Foundation's landmark "To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System" report and new research that finds medical errors are the nation's third-leading cause of death, patient safety stands at a crossroads, according to a commentary published in JAMA.
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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital via ScienceDaily
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have used sophisticated pharmacologic modeling and simulation to translate preclinical findings into a successful phase I clinical trial of a chemotherapy agent for treatment of ependymoma. The research marked the first time the approach has been used to calculate drug doses for a clinical trial in pediatric brain tumor patients.
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HealthData Management
The Zika virus is sending a chill down the collective spine of healthcare providers and government agencies. So far, Brazil has confirmed nearly 3,000 cases of pregnant women infected with the virus, and the disease is spreading through the Americas.
Kamran Khan says there’s a singular truth about the spread of infectious diseases: "If you start to analyze the situation when an outbreak occurs, you’re already too late."
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By Scott E. Rupp
 If you haven't yet settled into the telemedicine drama playing out in the American healthcare landscape, you may be missing a bit of a good show. This latest prognostication by the American Telemedicine Association is not game-changing, but it is enough of a play for fans to take notice, and to signal we're far from settled on where this movement will ultimately come to some finality.
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Mary Ann Liebert Inc. via News-Medical.net
Using technologies originally developed to evaluate complex investments and portfolios, a new data-driven simulator is being developed to help individuals and families evaluate health plans and select the health insurance policies most likely to meet their projected needs, with realistic cost estimates under a wide range of potential healthcare outcomes. The simulator's ability to predict usage and costs for a variety of health services — both typical and unexpected — and to be tailored to specific attributes of families, physicians or other factors, is highlighted in an article in Big Data, the highly innovative, peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert Inc. publishers.
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Health Imaging
An educational simulation portal integrated with clinical decision support at point-of-order improves medical students’ test scores and should be considered for inclusion in undergraduate medical education curricula, according to results of a study recently published in the journal Academic Radiology. Advancements in medical imaging science and information technology have made radiological procedures a central aspect of the continuum of care in modern medicine.
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