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Healthcare Packaging
What do the TV show "American Horror Story" and Boston Children's Hospital have in common?
They are both using the same cutting-edge special effects technology to create realistic dummies that, in the case of the hospital, will help doctors gain valuable experience that is closest to a real-life situation.
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Digital Trends
If the sight of blood makes you queasy, seeing virtual blood probably won't be your cup of tea either. But in order to better prepare medics for emergency situations, these graphic simulations are being used to give combat medics a more realistic simulation of hairy situations. While nothing could fully prepare these individuals for the full horror of a war zone, the hope is that a fake, virtual leg gushing blood will provide a better sense of what to expect when they need to address the real thing.
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Lynn Hetzler
 Transplant surgeons need more than simply a mass of cells — they need vessel inlets and outlets that they can connect directly to arteries and veins.
One of the largest hurdles scientists face when engineering livers, kidneys or other large artificial tissues is keeping the cells alive. Today, tissue engineers rely on the body's ability to grow blood vessels. They typically implant engineered tissue scaffolds inside the recipient's body and wait for blood vessels to spread from nearby tissues to the engineered constructs. This process can take weeks and, in the meantime, cells deep within the engineered tissue starve or suffocate before blood vessels ever reach them.
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Healthcare Finance News
Moody's Investor Services will start factoring a healthcare providers' cybersecurity strength into their credit ratings, the agency said, as hackers continue to infiltrate the sector.
Moody's says they think of cyberthreats the same way as other "extraordinary event risks" like natural disasters. Any impact to the company's credit depends on how long the attack went on and how bad it was. The greater the severity and impact to the company and consumers, the greater the chance it could impact credit.
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MammaCare CBE Simulator-Trainer
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palpation skills required to detect small breast lesions and to reduce false positives. Universities and colleges use the MammaCare CBE Simulator-Trainer to validate breast exam competencies. Call MammaCare for a demonstration unit: 352.375.0607 MORE
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MedPage Today
Burnout is typically not a rapid onset condition and for many there are signs of the condition as early as medical school or post-graduate training.
In recognition of this, some medical schools and residency programs are taking steps to address burnout as an early career issue. "You might not be able to change the clinical environment, but you can change their response and the choices they make," said Vineet Arora, MD, a faculty physician and assistant dean at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.
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HealthData Management
Two new polls show mixed results since the Oct. 1 ICD-10 compliance date went into effect. While a survey by consulting firm KPMG found 79 percent of responding healthcare organizations believe the code transition has been successful to date, a separate survey of doctors by physician social media network SERMO indicates the new billing codes are taking time away from patient care.
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By Scott E. Rupp
 The United States Department of Agriculture is expanding its Rural Development Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program — a surprising place for health IT innovation. The program, which began in 2009, will pump another $23.4 million in additional funding for 75 new projects in 31 states. The available funds will appear in the form of grants, which may be used to purchase telemedicine educational tools, equipment and services in rural areas.
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Be prepared to:
Provide leadership, manage patient simulation programs
Design curricula
Excel at teaching and assessment through high fidelity simulations
Develop programs designed to assure patient safety and quality in clinical settings
Participate in and generate innovative educational research.
For further information, please contact: Anthony Errichetti, PhD, CHSE 516-686-3928
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Journal of Emergency Medical Services
Bystander CPR can double or triple the chance of survival for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest victims, yet bystander CPR rates remain low in some of our highest-risk communities. To increase bystander CPR rates, it's important to identify barriers to EMS activation and create innovative CPR training opportunities.
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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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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
Innovations in healthcare will be challenging without a continuous assessment of growing healthcare IT needs and how they affect delivery methods, a recent American Hospital Association white paper reports. Furthermore, interoperability is crucial to the effectiveness of IT systems, such as analytics and EHRs.
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Portland State University via Medical Xpress
When the Affordable Care Act passed, Portland State University economists Rajiv Sharma and Arnab Mitra, and Oakland University's Miron Stano saw an opportunity. The shift in the healthcare market created something that's exceedingly rare for health economists like Sharma and Stano: a natural experiment. They teamed up with Mitra to create a study that would show how populations are accessing primary care physicians, while examining the effects of federal and state policies. Sharma's team created the Longitudinal Access to Physicians study, an innovative research model that used simulated patients with distinct insurance, race/ethnicity and gender profiles.
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