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Healthcare IT News
Hospitals have traditionally been reticent to disclose to patients or their family members the specifics of how a medical procedure didn’t go as planned for fear of malpractice lawsuits. In recent years, though, many are beginning to consider a change. Instead of the usual “deny-and-defend” approach, they are revamping their policies to be more open.
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Locum Tenens Daily
As a practicing physician, you know what it takes to obtain your state medical license. You may even have multiple. If you're a locum tenens doctor who frequently travels state to state for assignments this is especially true.
But what if there were no state licenses, and instead only one, national medical license? This is what one hospitalist proposes.
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FierceHealthcare
After a disaster hits, hospitals must take steps to deal with the aftermath for patients, but it’s also vital that they take care of their employees, according to new guidance from the Department of Health and Human Services. Healthcare workers are just as susceptible to the trauma of a disaster, such as the recent flooding in Louisiana.
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Tech.Co
The healthcare sector has been growing steadily as the demand for specialized physicians and practices continues to expand. Companies in the medical industry are starting up all over, and current trends promise further big changes for professionals in the healthcare business.
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U.S. News & World Report
Cardiologist Eric Topol, a professor at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, knew that medicine had reached a turning point when a patient sent him a screen shot of the electrocardiogram he’d run on himself with a smartphone app. “I’m in afib,” his text read, referring to atrial fibrillation. “Now what do I do?” As Topol, who is the author of “The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands,” sees it, patients are rapidly gaining the power to generate and interpret many kinds of medical data and will become much more engaged in managing their health.
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Blended Learning with vSim® for Nursing and Scenarios from the National League for Nursing.
When students experience the same patient encounter through different technologies, it allows them to reinforce their knowledge and gradually build confidence and competence.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Briana Nathaniel, 14, lies listless in her hospital bed, exhausted from days of nearly unbearable pain. Her voice is small, barely a whisper, and even lifting her hand seems to take enormous effort. Half an hour later, she’s transformed. A virtual reality visor covers half her face, but it can’t hide her grin. She’s sitting up, her hands waving around as she calls out, “Hi, dolphin! Hi, whale!”
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MarketWatch
In preparation for the Rio 2016 Olympics, more than 4,800 volunteer medical responders from around the world trained at Estacio de Sa University, a private university based in Rio de Janeiro, using CAE Healthcare's METIman patient simulator.
"We are proud to have provided a patient simulator that helped prepare medical teams at the Rio 2016 Olympics to respond to a wide range of medical emergencies and potentially save lives," said Dr. Robert Amyot, President of CAE Healthcare.
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Healthcare Finance News
The U.S. healthcare industry is feeling the staffing pinch with a growing and aging population, which requires more care and has greater access to it. According to career hub Health eCareers and data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 475,000 new healthcare jobs were created in 2015 to handle this growth -- although there's still a shortage of key positions, making it a job-seeker's market.
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Healio
Eight patients paralyzed from spinal cord injuries regained partial muscle control and sensation in their lower limbs after training with brain-controlled robotics, according to a study published in Scientific Reports. The research was led by Duke University neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis, Ph.D., as part of the Walk Again Project in São Paulo and included five participants who were paralyzed for at least five years and two participants who were paralyzed for more than a decade, according to a university press release.
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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 Optical Society via ScienceDaily
Today, patients with cataracts can choose from several types of artificial lenses, which are surgically implanted in the eye to replace cloudy lenses that obstruct vision. A new vision simulator could help these patients see how the world would look with each type of implanted artificial lens, before they have surgery.
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Simulation now includes the same patient monitors used in clinical practice. Simply connect the VitalsBridge with your manikin and any clinical patient monitor and your participants can interact with the same patient monitors used in their clinical practice. It works with Standardized patients too! Learn more now or call 801-484-3820.
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Becker's Hospital Review
Physicians who complete competitive residencies tend to make higher salaries and also may have lower rates of burnout, according to a study published by JAMA Internal Medicine.
Researchers compared the "fill rate" of residencies with median salary data from the Medical Group Management Association and data from Medscape's Lifestyle Report.
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Chicago Tribune
Thanks to a $1 million gift from the Tellabs Foundation to the Edward Foundation, Edward Hospital has opened a Center with new simulation rooms and expanded space for clinical training. The $1 million donation is the largest one-time amount ever received by the Edward Foundation. The Tellabs Foundation Center for Clinical Simulation and Learning is located on the second floor of the Education Center on the hospital's campus, 801 S. Washington St. in Naperville, Illinois.
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