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Doctors-In-Training Spend Very Little Time At Patient Bedside, Study Finds
Medical interns spend just 12 percent of their time examining and talking with patients, and more than 40 percent of their time behind a computer, according to a new Johns Hopkins study that closely followed first-year residents at Baltimore’s two large academic medical centers. Read More »
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How Many Die From Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals?
Now comes a study in the current issue of the Journal of Patient Safety that says the numbers may be much higher — between 210,000 and 440,000 patients each year who go to the hospital for care suffer some type of preventable harm that contributes to their death, the study says.
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IBM Partners With Epic In Battle For Pentagon's Multibillion-Dollar EHR Deal
IBM has teamed with electronic health records provider Epic to compete for the Defense Department’s Healthcare Management Systems Modernization contract expected to be bid out this summer, with an expected value of approximately $11 billion...
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Interns spend More Time With Computers Than Patients: Study
The time medical interns spend interacting with patients continues to drop, taking up only 12% of their working hours, according to a study at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital and the University of Maryland Medical Center. Read More »
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Johns Hopkins: Thanks To EHRs, Time With Patients Seems “Squeezed Out” Of Medical Training, Investigator Says
Question: Who would have thought it? That there is yet another potentially deadly unintended consequence of bad health IT and health IT hyper-enthusiasm? Read More »
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Prosthetists Meet 3D Printers: Mainstreaming Open Source 3D Printed Prosthetics For Underserved Populations
Washington, D.C. (PRWEB) September 08, 2014-Several nationally recognized organizations are coming together to sponsor a day-long conference highlighting and mainstreaming the work of e-NABLE, an online volunteer community of humanitarian technologists that is leading the way by designing, building, and disseminating inexpensive 3D-printed prosthetics. Read More »
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State of Health: Why A Global Approach Is Key To Solving Health Care’s Biggest Challenges
A lot of attention has been paid to the idea that patients, in particular those from the U.S., can now travel to other countries to get surgery or other treatments at lower cost than what’s available locally. But the idea that patients will be likely to travel to find the best deal in treatment, no matter where it is, has been overblown in my opinion (and as recently outlined in The Economist).
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