Improving patient care is key to new DoH body

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Patient care goes online at MultiCare

Patient care goes online at MultiCare 09/22/2004 06:29 AM
Tribnet.com - Wed Sep 22, 08:37 am GMT

High Tech Patient Care

High Tech Patient Care 06/08/2004 10:47 AM

USATODAY.com - In the hospital of the future, patients are pampered guests: This article on a new, high-tech hospital in Denver has some interesting notes.

Computerized patient records help prevent deadly medication errors. Embedded nanotechnology chips track everything from drugs to newborn infants. If an infant is carried outside of a secured area, alarms sound, and the hospital immediately is locked down to prevent a kidnapping.

Computers also are used to limit the time people spend in the waiting areas, which have stunning views of the snow-capped Rocky Mountains. A confirmation of the appointment is e-mailed to the patient the day before an exam or procedure. A patient who prints out the reminder can run a bar code on the page under a laser scanner near the hospital's front door to check in. The staff sees this on a computer screen and prepares to greet the patient heading toward the waiting area.

By evening, the patient gets an e-mail from Brimhall asking how the visit went and whether the patient had to wait. Each case in which there was a delay is sent back to the department, which must explain the delay to Brimhall. He reports back to the patient.

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Renaissance Health Improves Patient Care
with IT

Renaissance Health Improves Patient Care
with IT 09/16/2004 09:16 PM
The small physician practice is working with Greenway Medical Technologies, a small IT company funded by doctors, to help serve patients' diverse needs.

Many Hospitals Resist Computerized
Patient Care

Many Hospitals Resist Computerized
Patient Care 04/09/2004 04:03 PM
The challenges are clear both in the few cities where hospitals are using the systems and in places where they have been rejected.

Unique computer system to help patient
care in America

Unique computer system to help patient
care in America 05/15/2004 08:44 AM
Medical Science News May 15 2004 1:16PM GMT

NHS Greater Glasgow enhances patient
care with new IT network

NHS Greater Glasgow enhances patient
care with new IT network 09/23/2004 04:42 AM
PublicTechnology.net Sep 23 2004 8:43AM GMT

NextCare Urgent Care Implements Patient
Self-Service Kiosks from Galvanon

NextCare Urgent Care Implements Patient
Self-Service Kiosks from Galvanon 03/14/2005 06:10 PM
MediKiosk will enable urgent care centers to streamline patient check-in process [PRWEB Mar 8, 2005]

You take care of your body, don't you?

You take care of your body, don't you? 12/17/2004 06:42 PM
Evang elical enviromentalists. "Any kind of pollution that hurts the unborn, children, families and the poor—this is contrary to loving your neighbor, which is at the center of ethical teaching." Maybe there's hope for this world after all.

Medical Diagnostic and Treatment
Software Holds Potential to Save Lives
and Improve Patient Care Worldwide

Medical Diagnostic and Treatment
Software Holds Potential to Save Lives
and Improve Patient Care Worldwide 01/22/2004 02:12 AM
Nearly 100,000 people die in U.S. hospitals each year due to diagnostic errors, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. After his friend's 21-year-old son died in an emergency room as a result of a misdiagnosis, Michigan pharmacologist Dr. Joel C. Robertson resolved to create a technology product that might prevent similar tragedies by helping doctors to more quickly and accurately assess a patient's condition.

EPIC Imaging & Body Imaging Radiology
Seek Injunction to Stop Providence
Health Systems from Limiting Patient

EPIC Imaging & Body Imaging Radiology
Seek Injunction to Stop Providence
Health Systems from Limiting Patient 04/05/2005 08:01 PM
dBusinessNews.com Apr 5 2005 10:30PM GMT

"Families should be sending pictures and
care packages to Iraq - and the
Department of Defense should be sending
the body armor"

"Families should be sending pictures and
care packages to Iraq - and the
Department of Defense should be sending
the body armor" 03/08/2004 11:17 PM

Patient Zero

Patient Zero 12/02/2003 01:09 AM
Heres an intresting entry from the Wikipedia The link points to a short article on the AIDS "patient Zero" Gaëtan Dugas. hopefully this should serve as a good starting point for research or discussion. Although in the new millennium I wonder what sort of civil liberty issues this type of of research might have.

Patient DB

Patient DB 08/07/2004 01:59 PM
Patient DB development started!

Improving Win apps with .NET

Improving Win apps with .NET 01/17/2003 03:26 AM
CNET Jan 17 2003 2:23AM ET

Improving our mirrors. Can you help?

Improving our mirrors. Can you help? 08/03/2004 10:37 AM
Finks decision to gradually build its own network of mirrors has payed off. To make sure that we can continue to offer a high quality service we need to improve our mirror network. It has been some time since we last asked for more mirrors. It is time to do so again. Fink is very grateful for the resources granted to us by our community. To further improve our service to the community we require an even better mirror system. We especially lack mirrors in central Europe, Russia and the Far East. If you feel that you have at least two Mbit to spare for a rsync mirror or more to offer a distfiles mirror please contact us. To get a better understanding of the different types of mirrors Fink offers, please go and review finkmirrors.net. This is the official homepage for all mirror related issues. If you feel that you can offer other types of resources, web-space for testing as an example, please do not hestitate in contacting us as well.

Business improving across the UK

Business improving across the UK 05/19/2004 07:16 PM
Trading conditions are getting better for companies in each and very part of the UK, says a CBI survey.

Improving Zend.com

Improving Zend.com 06/05/2002 07:24 AM
The Zend.com Web site tries to address far too many target groups at the same time. What is really needed, is to get a Web professional on board, redesign and refocus, to become the lighthouse of PHP.

A Timely (SMS) Message For The Patient

A Timely (SMS) Message For The Patient 04/06/2005 02:07 AM
Government health departments are still waiting for a return on large investments in IT infrastructure. However, according to a report to be published later this week by Cambridge based analysts Wireless Healthcare, a simple mobile phone based service is already having an impact on hospital performance data. - Report finds that SMS text messaging is having an impact on hospital performance data. [PRWEB Apr 6, 2005]

GP accused of murdering patient

GP accused of murdering patient 08/19/2004 04:24 AM
A family GP will appear in court on Thursday charged with murdering a 74-year-old cancer patient in January.

Improving Your Internet Security

Improving Your Internet Security 09/26/2004 01:15 PM
Castle Cops Sep 26 2004 5:12PM GMT

90nm G5 Supplies Improving?

90nm G5 Supplies Improving? 05/11/2004 07:36 PM
Appleinsider reports that Apple has received new 90nm PowerPC shipments and seeded several test PowerMac units to partners. The test models are rep...

Improving online credibility

Improving online credibility 07/29/2004 12:59 AM

If you've browsed Amazon's product reviews recently you may have noticed an interesting new feature: Badges< /a>, little icons displayed below certain people's names. This isn't a new idea by any means - many online communities use special icons as rewards for members who make valuable contributions (SitePoint is a good example). What's interesting about Amazon's badges is that one of them is "Real Name". Amazon's Real Names FAQ explains the badge, and includes the following:

Why is Amazon.com encouraging the use of Real Names?

In general, we believe that a community in which people use their Real Names will ultimately have higher quality content, since an author willing to sign his or her real-world name on a piece of content is essentially saying "With my real-world identity, I stand by what I have written here."

Real names certainly add credibility to online discussion: I for one find it much easier to trust information if the author appears to have signed their real name to it. The challenge is verifying that the name is accurate, and Amazon's solution is so simple-but-smart that I kicked myself: they match the name against the user's credit card details. Genius.

I wouldn't be surprised to see this trick taking on a key role in the field of online identity management - provided Amazon's patent lawyers don't get there first.

Apple Improving Open-GL?

Apple Improving Open-GL? 03/27/2005 06:28 PM
Apple appears to be actively recruiting individuals to improve their Mac Open-GL implementation according to a post on the Mac Open GL mailing list.Th...

Improving WLAN Management

Improving WLAN Management 05/14/2004 03:01 PM
Smaller wireless-switching companies are challenging incumbent hardware vendors such as Cisco for the attention of users looking to improve the manageability of their WLANs.

On improving the commentators feed

On improving the commentators feed 03/13/2003 10:16 AM
I've been subscribed to Ben Hammersley's commentators feed, and a couple things have come to mind that would improve it....

Circuit City's Improving

Circuit City's Improving 09/17/2004 02:33 PM
The No. 2 electronics retailer is making strides and beats estimates.

Improving Scientific Literacy

Improving Scientific Literacy 03/14/2005 05:07 PM
According to a poll conducted by The Science Advisory Board, scientists believe that governments can best improve the scientific literacy of their citizens by "teaching teachers to teach." Sixty percent of those surveyed believe that countries will get the most return on their education tax dollars by supporting teacher-training programs. [PRWEB Mar 3, 2005]

Improving the Chain Gang

Improving the Chain Gang 06/17/2005 03:40 PM
Staying in a drab chain hotel can suck the life out of any traveler. We asked three design professionals their strategies for bringing the surroundings up a notch.

20 Suggestions For Improving The Mac
Experience

20 Suggestions For Improving The Mac
Experience 07/14/2004 06:41 PM
By Jeff Adkins, Low End Mac (via MyAppleMenu)

Improving the security of xinetd

Improving the security of xinetd 07/22/2004 09:59 AM
The xinetd package used by Panther provides a number of security features, including the ability to finely control access based on source IP address and time of access. It features extensive logging, and also provides some p...

Improving Google Images

Improving Google Images 06/17/2002 02:01 PM
Google Images is an ambitious project from Google and of course it's nowhere near as good as the original Google Web. But much to Google's credit, it's continuously getting better. However, I think I have a few suggestions to make it better:Use Google Web - Google Web is incredible, it will very often bring back the right match as the first hit. Take advantage of this -- display images on that page.Search ALT tags - Although they're not used everywhere, ALT tags are a big source of useful information about pictures. Also, if Google Images uses them, it will encourage more authors to put better info in them, which helps Web Accessibility.The first or only image is often right - On many web pages there's only one image (like my own) or the first image is right (like Guido van Rossum's) or it's the first non-space image (like Land Rover's). Return these as results!Google Web is an incredible thing and it doesn't make sense Google Images not to take advantage of it. Right now using Google Web and then picking an image off the page is often better than Google Images. I hope that changes in the near future. Example searches that can be improved:W3C - on Google Web's first result, the W3C logo is the top image, the biggest image, the only image with "W3C" in the alt text and the only image with W3C in the filename)Scripting News - on Google Web's first result, the Scripting News logo is the largest image (and the first non-spacer) and has an ALT tag of "ScriptingNews").Do you have suggestions? Mail them in!

Improving Friendster, an MIT approach

Improving Friendster, an MIT approach 01/07/2004 04:19 PM
http://philip.greenspun.com/teaching/6171/2003-fall/friendster&nbs p;contains ideas for improving Friendster collected from students in this semester's 6.171.  Given how much press attention Friendster received last summer I thought folks would be interested.

Are exclusions improving schools?

Are exclusions improving schools? 06/24/2005 07:06 PM
The BBC's Mike Baker looks at what the latest batch of exclusion figures show about school discipline.

Tech IPO picture improving

Tech IPO picture improving 01/03/2005 02:59 PM
Dotcom era survivors finally go public while the number of public offerings more than triples in 2004.

Improving Your Career In Any Economy

Improving Your Career In Any Economy 01/31/2003 08:03 PM
The basic principles for advancing your career have always been the same, regardless of what the economy is like.

1st in Asia: 'Antibodies' stent for NUH
patient

1st in Asia: 'Antibodies' stent for NUH
patient 08/04/2004 11:46 PM
Straits Times Aug 5 2004 3:43AM GMT

Intern MD Injects Patient With Olive Oil
(AP)

Intern MD Injects Patient With Olive Oil
(AP) 09/08/2004 12:23 PM
AP - A medical intern at a western Austria hospital mistakenly injected an elderly patient with olive oil instead of antibiotics after mixing up bedside vials, officials said Wednesday.

Surgeon admits killing a patient

Surgeon admits killing a patient 06/17/2004 11:43 AM
A consultant surgeon who denied killing two patients admits the manslaughter of one of them.

Correction: Patient Deaths Story

Correction: Patient Deaths Story 12/23/2003 05:01 AM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 23 2003 3:49AM ET
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