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The LIS Functionality Assessment Toolkit; Measuring the Value of an LIS 24 Aug 2013 | 01:58 am
On the front page of the August edition of CAP Today, there's an article about a report that will soon be released by the Association for Pathology Informatics (API) (see: Toolkit lets labs make case ...
Not All NPs and PAs Choose to Work in Primary Care; What's the Problem? 23 Aug 2013 | 06:32 am
Nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) play very important roles in our healthcare delivery system (see: Future Key Role of Nurse Practitioners in Primary Care). They work across the...
Cigna to Require Genetic Counseling Prior to BRCA Testing 22 Aug 2013 | 02:22 am
I have blogged previously about the use of companion diagnostics whereby a lab test is used to determine whether a patient is a suitable candidate for an expensive drug, usually an expensive chemother...
Pro Football Team Experiments with Cone Beam CT Imaging 20 Aug 2013 | 03:55 am
I posted a previous note about traumatic brain injury (TBE) which is known in its chronic form as chronic traumatic encephalitis and is being diagnosed more frequently in pro football players. At that...
Will Accepting Patient Email Make Physicians More Productive? 14 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Promoting email communication between patients and physicians has been discussed for years (see: Use of Email by Office Physicians; Doctors Slow to Adopt Email with Patients; Physician Uses Video Emai...
The Estimated Annual Cost per Smoking Employee for an Employers 12 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
There is a growing movement among hospitals and health related non-profit corporations not to hire smokers (see: Tobacco-Free Hiring Takes Hold; Both Smoking and Smokers Excluded; The Financial Stakes...
Google Hardware Now Installed in about 80% of ISPs in North America 9 Aug 2013 | 11:19 pm
I have always known that Google dominated the world of web search but I recently came across an article describing how pervasive it has become from the perspective of internet service providers (ISPs)...
Cleveland Clinic Launches Consulting Relationship with ProMedica System in Toledo 9 Aug 2013 | 06:06 am
I am an unabashed fan of the Cleveland Clinic and have posted notes about the various innovations that the health system has launched over the years. There are far too many of them to link to here. Ho...
Some of the Details Behind the Maine Medical Center/Epic EHR Meltdown 6 Aug 2013 | 10:03 pm
In a recent note, I described how it was possible for a hospital CIO to get fired after choosing Epic for the hospital EHR (see: Who Says a Hospital CIO Can't Get Fired for Picking the Epic EHR?). Her...
Twelve Major Health Care Trends; Skate to Where Healthcare Is Going 6 Aug 2013 | 03:44 am
I have always been a sucker for published lists of major trends in healthcare. Such lists usually strip away unnecessary verbiage and give an unvarnished view of where the authors thinks healthcare is...
