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EHR failures create havoc for hospitals
The wide adoption of electronic health records and other electronic systems inevitably means that healthcare facilities will have to cope with outages. Several facilities recently have experienced how much the failure of one of those systems can cripple a hospital.
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Mount Sinai leverages smartphone technology to boost ED care coordination
Using telemedicine in the care and treatment of stroke patients is widely used and accepted at this point; the approach facilitates quick access to expert consultations when time to treatment is a critical factor. However, some medical centers are finding that there are other ways to take advantage of telemedicine in the emergency setting, and they’re testing out methods to most effectively leverage its ability to connect with patients from a remote location.
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Case study in how CMs can help make ACOs successful
According to one accountable care organization, the key to success is to change the healthcare philosophy of intermittent and emergent care to an ongoing, coordinated care philosophy.
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Strategies for flexible case management in the ACO model
Accountable care organizations make it possible for case/care managers to help patients improve their health through creative and flexible solutions, particularly during transitions, experts say.
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Need for Case Managers Rises with the ACO Boom
The Affordable Care Act provides more opportunities for case management and greater demand for CM experts.
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Handling sensitive topics with teenagers raises issues
The use of digital storytelling and social media to engage a vulnerable population is part of the research frontier that is possible because of technology. It might change the way IRBs view human research, and it might make investigators of community members, one socio-behavioral scientist says.
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Recent measles outbreaks show dangers of bad research
IRBs need to be reminded how even the smallest of studies based on bad science or being performed by an unethical researcher can have long-lasting dangers and impact on society, a regulatory coordinator says.
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A big data cardiovascular study plans to learn a lot
A big data cardiovascular study out of the University of California, San Francisco is enrolling volunteers from around the world in a quest to learn more about heart disease.
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Online cardiovascular study shows technological evolution of research
A new research study involving social media highlights how challenging it is for IRBs when technology continually speeds up the evolution of human research protection.
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Informed consent issues at the front lines of clinical trials
IRBs spend considerable time poring over informed consent documents and learning all they can about a study’s informed consent process. But how do these IRB discussions and changes translate into a living informed consent process after the study is approved?