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Florida International University via Medical Xpress
It all started with a broken mannequin and an idea for how to get students to improve their written coma examination reports. The resulting simulation exercise developed by faculty at the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine has already won an award at an international congress on clinical ethics, and was presented at the VII International Symposium on Brain Death and Disorders of Consciousness in Havana.
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ZDNet
Andrew Moore, the Dean of the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science and a former vice president at Google, just told me something exciting. Moore predicts that 2016 will see a rapid proliferation of research on machine emotional understanding in machines. Robots, smart phones and computers will very quickly start to understand how we're feeling and will be able to respond accordingly.
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Health IT Security
A recent cyberattack simulation designed to show areas of improvement for healthcare cybersecurity found that individual health plans do not find their current incident response plan to be adequate when it comes to protecting members. The Health Information Trust Alliance and Deloitte Advisory Cyber Risk Services, in coordination with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, came together to create the cyberattack.
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Medical News Today
A study of general surgery residents at The Johns Hopkins Hospital suggests that in the efforts to prevent dangerous blood clots among hospitalized patients, regular, one-on-one feedback and written report cards work a lot better than the usual group lectures that newly minted surgeons receive as part of their training.
The strategy, described Dec. 9 in Annals of Surgery, was designed to boost the use of correct therapy in surgery patients and ward off the often fatal consequences of blood clots in the deep veins of the legs and lungs, collectively known as venous thromboembolism, or VTE.
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Healthcare Finance News
Crowded emergency departments have been vexing patients and hospital staff for years as consumers have increasingly sought care there. But a new study finds that many of the busiest facilities have yet to adopt several well-regarded measures to reduce the wait and minimize delays.
The study, published in the journal Health Affairs, measured crowding based on patients' length of stay in the emergency department and then divided hospitals into quartiles from least to most crowded.
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A recently conducted cyberattack readiness exercise revealed that health plans still have work to do in order to properly prepare for the threats they now face, industry and government leaders said during a teleconference Dec. 3.
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Medscape
Pharmacists can play a central role in reducing the frequency and impact of medication errors during code situations, according to research presented at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists 2015 Midyear Clinical Meeting. "Medication errors are probably more common than we think they are in code situations, and these put patients at risk for adverse effects," said Alexander Flannery, PharmD, a critical care pharmacist in the medical intensive care unit at the University of Kentucky HealthCare in Lexington. Simulation studies and prospective observation have shown that these types of errors are pervasive.
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Drexel News Blog
A man breaks into a 28-year-old woman's home and rapes her. When you arrive at the scene to investigate, you find the door unlocked, a roll of duct tape in the bedroom and the woman's license missing from her wallet.
A 35-year-old sexual assault victim comes to the center where you work as a counselor. She tells you she's always anxious. She worries that the crime may have been her fault or that it could happen again. Both fictional scenarios are part of simulations in the "Forensic Trends and Issues in Contemporary Healthcare" online certificate program in Drexel's College of Nursing and Health Professions.
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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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Hospitals & Health Networks
Although there has been significant improvement in overall patient safety in the in-patient hospital setting in the last 15 years, the scope of the problem has widened outside the hospital walls, and the definition of patient harm has expanded. There's still much work to be done, according to a report recently released by an expert panel convened by the National Patient Safety Foundation.
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HealthLeaders Media
Until recently, most patient ID technology centered on building and maintaining master patient indexes. Enterprise master patient index technology—not a foolproof method of positively identifying someone presenting for treatment—continues to perform foundational work in healthcare. Now, payers and providers are widening their use of a combination of technologies to simplify patient identification at check-in, spurred in part by progress being made in the credit card industry to adopt smart card technologies, as well as advances in other biometric and cloud technologies.
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San Francisco Examiner
Many people suffer intense fears of darkness, noises or creepy crawly things. Two engineering undergraduate students at the University of Santa Clara, Paul Thurston and Bryce Mariano, devoted their last semester of college in spring 2015 to treat acrophobia, the fear of heights, with technology using virtual reality goggles to simulate the sensation of being at high altitude during therapy.
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