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Editor's Picks
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Texting as a Health Tool for Teenagers
When chronically ill patients or transplant patients ignore medical advice it often leads to poor outcomes or, in the case of transplant patients, organ rejection. One of the worst offenders of patient noncompliance is teenagers, which may not be too surprising for parents of teenage children. For instance, studies have shown that teenage liver transplant recipients are four times more likely than adult patients to forget to take their medications, or take them at the wrong time. Rather than scheduling more frequent clinic visits and lecturing teenage patients, this article in the New York Times outlines a different solution—text messaging. Mount Sinai Hospital in New York found that text messaging could significantly improve young liver transplant patients' adherence to medical advice. The program, called CareSpeak, sent text messages reminding young patients when to take their medications. [Read More]
IT leader's role in disaster planning
If they are not already, IT representatives should be key players in disaster preparedness drills conducted by hospitals, according to this article by my colleague Scott Wallask. Actively including IT technicians in the drills will help ease interdepartmental confusion and force everyone to appreciate what others view as the consequences of a disaster. Hospitals should also conduct drills that aren't worst-case scenarios, but centered on IT incidents that may have caused disruptions in the past. [Read More]
Wichita officials concede push for health exchange to state
The Wichita Health Information Exchange was formed earlier this year by the Medical Society of Sedgwick County to help establish a health information exchange at the local level that would enable hospitals, laboratories, imaging centers, and other providers to share patient information like test results and medication lists. It originally planned to have a pilot program in place by the end of this year, but that is no longer the case, according to this report in the Wichita Business Journal. When the Kansas Department of Health and Environment formed a 31-member consortium to lay the groundwork for a statewide HIE this past month, Wichita opted to take a back seat rather than lead the charge. "We think there are resources that are going to become available to help makes these things become a reality," says Jon Rosell, executive director of the Medical Society of Sedgwick County and a member of the KDHE's e-Health Advisory Council. [Read More]
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Tech Headlines
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Cedars-Sinai Offers to Pay Medical Costs For Patients Overexposed to CT Radiation
Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media - November 10, 2009
Doctors embrace social networking
Miami Herald - November 9, 2009
Time to raise the CIO's game
The McKinsey Quarterly - November 10, 2009
HL7 unveils new standard for EHRs, clinical research
iHealthBeat - November 10, 2009
Hospital Job Growth Surged in October
John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media - November 6, 2009
IBM launches health analytics center
HealthImaging.com - November 10, 2009
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Webcasts
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December 17, 2009: Women's Health: Building a More Profitable Service Line With Existing Assets
December 3, 2009: Marketing Cardiology: Service Line Strategies for Marketers
November 17, 2009: Service Lines Strategies Workshop 2009: Stroke Care
November 12, 2009: Finding and Keeping Physicians During a Shortage
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Care Team Architecture
Creativity and flexibility count, sure. But underlying the successful care team design is a foundation of essential and lasting values. [Read More]
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State of EmergencyThe nation's emergency departments are feeling the effects of the economic downturn, but innovations in patient throughput and other strategies offer hope for a beleaguered system. [Read More]
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IT Forum
Utilizing Clinical Integration to Foster Successful Hospital Operations Improvement: Don't use impending healthcare reform and the uncertainties surrounding it as an excuse not to enact necessary clinical integration strategies that will improve operations regardless of how legislative healthcare reform eventually plays out. While considerable uncertainty still exists surrounding the details of healthcare reform, certain consequences of reform are so likely that hospitals need to address them. [Read More] |
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Audio Feature
Green Solution to Dispose of Medical Waste: David Freedman, president of Medical Innovations Inc., discusses their medical waste technology that converts regulated medical waste to ordinary non-regulated waste on site. The technology reduces the volume of waste by roughly 75% on average and has reduced small medical group practices and solo practitioners medical waste costs by as much as 90%. [Listen Now]
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