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Speed Dating for Your Doc
February 10, 2010 9:27 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
I alluded to the fact yesterday that I've been a rather transient patient. Ever since college, I haven't had a steady primary care physician. I saw nurse practitioners on campus, visited my old PCP on breaks and even ventured to a new doc while living Read More...
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Patients Get Records After Year-Long Wait
February 9, 2010 2:17 PM by Cheryl McEvoy
If my doctor closed up shop, I'd be miffed. If I couldn't get my records on file there, I'd probably say, the heck with ‘em. But as someone who's jumped around to a few docs over the past year, I know how helpful it is to have all your records in one Read More...
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Patient Privacy Violations in Haiti?
February 2, 2010 10:35 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
The images are abundant; visual accounts of makeshift hospitals, open wounds and resilient patients. And it's not just on news networks. Ordinary doctors and nurses, upon returning from Haiti, are posting photos and videos on Facebook , Flickr and other Read More...
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Medical Records: Help or Hindrance in Haiti?
January 19, 2010 9:40 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
Hundreds of thousands are injured, communications are scant and trauma centers are makeshift, at best. So how are medical records maintained? They're not, according to reports surfacing from Haiti. Eyewitness accounts tell of overrun hospitals resorting Read More...
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Medication Management
December 1, 2009 10:17 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
I've been thinking about personal health records (PHRs) lately (probably because of my article on PHRs going live tomorrow), and it somehow brings me to "Rent." I got on a big Broadway musical kick in junior high, and "Rent" started it all. I saw the Read More...
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Mammography and the Right to Choose
November 20, 2009 12:59 PM by Lisa Algeo
(Editor's note: This is a guest blog written by Valerie M. Chapman, RN, MSN, a pediatric nurse for 25 years. She is a 3-year breast cancer survivor and lives in Medford, NJ, with her husband and two children.) I am a wife, a mother of two awesome kids, Read More...
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Mammography Screenings Changing?
November 17, 2009 3:25 PM by Lisa Algeo
(Editor's note: This is a guest blog by Lorettajo A. Kapinos, an ED nurse at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, MA.) Last month was Breast Cancer Awareness month and I blogged about my experience with a false positive mammogram. Ironically, this Read More...
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Health Care Reform: What Women Need
July 22, 2009 11:50 AM by Lisa Algeo
Guest commentary by Sabrina Corlette, director of health policy programs for the National Partnership for Women & Families In the halls of Congress, in the media, in the coffee shops and restaurants of Washington, D.C. -- health care reform is dominating Read More...
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HIPAA be damned?
July 14, 2009 8:05 AM by Lynn Jusinski
[Editor's note: This is a guest blog by ADVANCE for Nurses editor Lyn A.E. McCafferty, who contributes to the "ADVANCE Perspective: Nurses " blog featured on the ADVANCE for Nurses Web site.] If you think the fictional Nurse Jackie and HawthoRNe are bad Read More...
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Doctors Face Patient Scrutiny
June 24, 2009 1:42 PM by Cheryl McEvoy
For the past few weeks, I've had Michael Jackson's "Somebody's Watching Me" stuck in my head. I blame Geico for making it the theme song for its ubiquitous ad campaign. (Seriously, that bug-eyed bundle of money is everywhere .) But today, the ditty popped Read More...
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Another Form to Fill Out
March 4, 2009 2:59 PM by Lynn Jusinski
How do you, as HIM professionals, shop for doctors? Being in the health care field, HIM professionals have a unique view of how they should be treated as patients and the care they can expect to receive. Jacque Taylor, AHDI-F, one of our Top 10 in HIM Read More...
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