Dr Karl talks about decision making in a operating theatre vs a cockpit
A young vascular surgeon arrives at the operating room (theatre) for the first case of the day, a bypass of an obstructed femoral artery in a 65 year old smoker. The operation is planned to avert an amputation; there is early gangrene visible on the patient's great toe.
Patient Safety, Quality Care and Cultural Transfor
Patient Safety, Quality Care and Cultural Transformation-There’s More to it than Just a Few Training Programs
Tips for easing into medical technology
SoftwareAdvice.com recently posed the following questions to its readers in a survey format: "Are more doctors buying electronic medical records than before? Or, has the Stimulus bill only brought out the tire kickers?". The results of the survey are available here; while the survey wasn't scientific and it didn't have enough participants to draw wide scale conclusions, the results do imply a general feeling of positive momentum towards the purchase and implementation of EMRs.
Right now, you’d think electronic health records would be the last things on anyone’s mind. A raging pandemic of swine flu, rock icons dying in mysterious circumstances amid rumors of prescription drug abuse, hospital-acquired infections still causing serious problems – there are so many other health-related stories dominating the headlines. And yet EHRs remain top of the agenda, and rightfully so.