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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.

The hidden epidemic

Wired world

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.