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What's creepy to one person can be lifesaving to another: Boston Children's Hospital teamed up with Hollywood special-effects artists to create lifelike simulators to train surgeons on complex, high-stakes operations.
Two new trainers are under development and were unveiled at the hospital's Pediatric Innovation Summit in Boston. These will join Surgical Sam and other simulators.
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Reuters
Having surgeons-in-training participate in operations does not endanger patients, a new analysis of U.S. data concludes.
The study, which looked at results from all surgical specialties, found that procedures involving trainees – known as surgical residents – tended to have similar complications and slightly lower mortality rates, compared to when senior surgeons worked alone.
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Virginia Tech via Medical Xpress
Technology to predict how our bodies will manage chronic diseases such as Crohn's disease and inflammatory bowel disease promises to accelerate the discovery of new treatments, identify leads for further study and occasionally uncover hidden knowledge about how our immune system operates.
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Health Imaging
Just as computed simulation helps pilots learn to fly and flight instructors gauge trainee progress, so too the technique can aid the teaching and assessment of nonradiologist healthcare trainees in diagnostic image interpretation.
The November issue of JACR includes a report detailing a pilot study on the potential of such simulation.
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HealthData Management
Use of a pillcam, a swallowable capsule with a tiny video camera that lets physicians examine the colon, is common today. But what about a pillcam that actually can do a procedure, such as attach a surgical clip to stop bleeding?
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Bloomberg
More than half a million people signed up for "Obamacare" plans during the first week that government-run markets were open, in what is projected to be a challenging year of trying to reach new people who haven't yet gotten insurance under the law.
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Healthcare IT News
It's not just hospitals. Or even payers. Some 392 million health records have been accessed in 1,931 protected health information breaches across a staggering 90 percent of industries, according to preliminary findings from a new Verizon report.
These industries, across 25 countries, have seen health insurance information, personnel files or other data outside of traditional healthcare settings or industries stolen, the study shows.
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Healthcare Finance News
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has awarded $10 million to 16 national organizations to advance local efforts to deliver better care at a lower cost.
The Quality Improvement Organizations are private, mostly nonprofit facilities staffed by doctors and other healthcare professionals. They get funding from Medicare's Quality Innovation Network to work with patients, providers and physicians on goals that meet CMS targets.
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Medical News Today
Training family members of patients at risk of cardiac arrest to administer CPR may be done as effectively with a video-only kit as with a video kit that includes a manikin to practice hands-on resuscitation. This was the conclusion of a new study from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania that is being presented during the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2015 in Orlando, Florida.
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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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FierceHealthcare
The healthcare industry must adopt a systemwide approach to tackling medical misdiagnosis, a growing concern due to recent research that estimates 12 million people in the United States will experience a diagnostic error each year, argues an opinion piece published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Becker's Hospital Review
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, in partnership with the deans of the commonwealth's four medical schools and its medical society, released a new set of medical school core competencies to address the growing opioid crisis.
The set of 10 competencies will affect 3,000 medical students. They address primary prevention of prescription drug misuse by requiring medical students to be competent in evaluating patient pain and risk for substance use disorders, as well as identifying alternative treatments.
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