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Is Documentation Consuming Nursing?
June 27, 2008 12:08 PM by Frank Irving
According to Spyglass Consulting Group research, nurses are spending upwards of 50 percent of their time documenting patient care. Quoted in an article in the upcoming July print edition of ADVANCE , Spyglass ' Managing Director Gregg Malkary said the Read More...
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Standardizing Patient Wristbands
June 11, 2008 8:30 AM by Frank Irving
At a news conference June 9 in Harrisburg, Pa., State Rep. John Payne (Dauphin County) and the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority announced a pilot project in which 11 hospitals will use a standardized color-coding system for patient wristbands. The Read More...
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Equipment Donated to Aid Chinese Earthquake Victims
May 19, 2008 1:30 PM by Frank Irving
Rochester, N.Y.-based Carestream Health donated mobile digital imaging systems to the Red Cross Society of China to help provide diagnostic X-ray exams to victims of the earthquake in southwestern China's Sichuan Province. These imaging systems are part Read More...
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A HIPAA Typo
May 13, 2008 2:04 PM by Bob Mitchell
As the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) got in full swing a few years ago, I received several press releases from software vendors or consultants who touted that they were there to help health care organizations with Read More...
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Earth Day
April 22, 2008 12:20 PM by Jim Boyle
I remember not too long ago when observing Earth Day usually meant one day of planting a couple seeds, maybe eating lunch outside and paying a little closer attention to lights being left on. Similar to how some react to all the good cheer surrounding Read More...
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American Heart Association Endorses Hands-only CPR for Adults
April 15, 2008 2:54 PM by Diana Olsen
Chest compressions alone, or hands-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), can save lives and can be used to help an adult who suddenly collapses, according to a new American Heart Association scientific statement. The statement, from the association's Read More...
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Preventing ID Theft After Tax Day
April 15, 2008 2:07 PM by Frank Irving
This blog post applies to personal identity protection, but the recommendations make good sense for any computing environment. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) reported that a record 77 million tax returns were filed electronically for tax year 2006. Read More...
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Can A Logo Make You More Creative?
April 14, 2008 2:48 PM by Bob Mitchell
So here's the deal, I work in a creative environment, but I have to disagree with the recent announcement that viewing Apple's logo makes one more creative than IBM's logo does. Come on, they're just logos. They're nothing but a company's brand. I like Read More...
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April is Donate Life Month
April 11, 2008 4:45 PM by Frank Irving
More than 26,000 people in the United States received organ transplants in 2007. That's the good news. The bad news is that nearly 6,000 people died while waiting for a transplant last year, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing ( UNOS ). Read More...
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Fatigued RNs Worry About Drowsy Driving
April 10, 2008 5:40 PM by Frank Irving
In a national online survey conducted by the American Society of Registered Nurses (ASRN), 32 percent of the RNs surveyed said they were too fatigued after work to be driving and "shouldn't be on the road." "Nurses who work at night are four more times Read More...
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DoD Centralizes Health Surveillance Efforts
March 24, 2008 11:58 AM by Frank Irving
Earlier this month, the Department of Defense (DoD) formally established the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC). The move recognized health surveillance as being critical to medical readiness and force health protection. "One of the critical Read More...
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Why We Do This Only Once Every Four Years
February 28, 2008 10:25 PM by Frank Irving
In honor of Leap Day , consider the following... Leap has a geographical sense. It's a village in County Cork, Ireland. Leap has a zoological sense. It's the collective noun for a group of leopards. The acronym LEAP has a financial sense. It stands for Read More...
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Texting Motorists Beware
February 26, 2008 2:30 PM by Frank Irving
According to the State of New Jersey's Office of the Attorney General (OAG), talking on a hand-held phone or texting while driving will be against the law starting March 1. Here's a summary from the New Jersey OAG's Web site : >> It is a primary Read More...
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DoD Confident of Successful Satellite Intercept
February 21, 2008 6:54 PM by Frank Irving
General James Cartwright, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, held a news briefing at the Pentagon today providing information related to a missile intercept of a non-functioning satellite. Gen. Cartwright showed reporters video of the missile Read More...
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Waiting on a Recession
February 21, 2008 9:46 AM by Bob Mitchell
We're standing in the back of the church on Sunday morning handing out bulletins for the morning's worship service. I ask Tom, one of my fellow congregants, how the job search is going. "If my kids only ate every other day or so, we'd be fine," Tom says, Read More...
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