After watching this video, is the pressure mounting to the point to where we might be having to look at
“creative admissions”?
  It sounds like the physicians here were put into a Catch 22 position, as when the business intelligence reports were analyzed, the group was then told some of their admissions were not required, so a new group was brought in to do a better job?  There have been recent stories in the news where some hospitals (more…)

One more hospital pays a fine for this practice, but one of the most disturbing items in this article is the fact that the City Attorney’s office continues receiving reports that the practice of dumping patients is still being reported, so it leads one to think the problem has not been solved and there may still be some isolated cases still occurring. 
If so, with all the cameras we have now to record potential cases, it would appear it may (more…)

Now that the merger is done, we can somewhat say goodbye to Misys, the name we knew for years as it is now Allscripts. 
Allscripts also provides the free e-prescribing initiative for any physician wanted to get started with free e-prescribing and a permanent link is always on the site here. 
This is another example of hospitals and physicians getting connected and medical records and staff being able to communicate with each other for better (more…)

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The center will offer 9 tests initially and will grow to 50 by year end.  The article stated there are over 2000 currently available, but the hospital is selectively working to find the tests that will best benefit diagnosis and treatments for their patients.  The number of tests is continuing to grow as the field of genomics is rapidly evolving and new breakthroughs in research are almost in the news every week.  The counseling service will be (more…)

Research and development with genomics is continuing at the Baylor School of Medicine; however, the construction of the new hospital has been put
through philanthropy, federal funds and other sources.  BD
)–Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced that researchers at Baylor College of Medicine’s Medical Genetics Laboratories will use Illumina’s Infinium® High-Density (HD) DNA Analysis products to study genomic imprinting and (more…)

This is an interesting story here with the doctor challenging the hospital and it sounds like all were perhaps not getting along well, but the part about the hospital allegedly changing any patient records is very strange.  It sounds like an electronic records system is in place, so the good
will tell the story.  Some companies and hospitals, to ensure that everyone is in fact honest have
as well, so even if someone in IT even thought about (more…)

When you stop and think about the doctor stuffing the gown into the rubber gloves, it makes sense, even though they are going to end up in the same place, the trash, but less exposure over all and someone has to take out the trash too.  Anyone who was treating a MRSA patient was required to wear gloves and the paper gown, but it was still continuing to spread anyway.  Washing hands is of course right up there too, but this one simple technique seems (more…)

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