EHR developed for long-term care holds promise

COLUMBIA, MO – Researchers from the University of Missouri are developing an electronic health record system aimed at meeting the needs of a population of older adults that’s expected to almost double in the next 20 years.

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What This Country Needs is Universal Lawn Care - Associate

If we're going to play around with socialism anyway, let's start small. Not with health care or the banks. What we really need is socialized lawn care.

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Applying FDA guidelines on electronic records & signatures

Pharma IQ speaks with Sandy Weinberg, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Health Care Management, Clayton State University and speaker at the 6th Forum on Laboratory Informatics and compliance with updated FDA guidelines in this in-depth interview

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NUHS Brings Health Care to Those in Need

National University of Health Science's clinic in Aurora, Illinois, offers on-site medical exams and chiropractic primary care at area soup kitchens, as well as providing free or reduced cost health care to homeless clients of community social service agencies. The Aurora program is part of National University of Health Sciences' long tradition..

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Salad Spinner Centrifuge: A Cheap, Ingenious Health Care Too

We already know that we need to eat plenty of leafy greens to stay healthy, but who knew that a salad spinner itself could help save lives? As we learn from EurekAlert, Rice University undergraduates Lila Kerr and Lauren Theis were presented with an�

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Mental Health Woes Grow While Government Funding Declines

As the current global economic crisis drives up the demand for mental health care services, cash-strapped agencies are slashing mental health budgets, according to a new Brandeis University study out this month in the International Journal of Mental Health. However, while most nations are cutting spending, a handful of countries are earmarking ...

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Secret Health Care Tax

Forgot about universal healthcare already? It has not forgotten about you or what you make a year. Guess what? Yep, you're being taxed from 2010 and on to pay for the 15% of people who work the system and do not contribute. It's actually a really clever way we were deceived. Want to find out how?

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Patient safety compromised by interruptions to doctors

Emergency doctors complete interrupted tasks in a shorter time than uninterrupted tasks and fail to return to 18.5 per cent of interrupted tasks, according to a study by the University of Sydney's Health Informatics Research and Evaluation Unit, published in the Quality and Safety in Health Care journal.

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Universal Coverage: A Bus Ticket To Omaha

Is the health care overhaul staggering through the Senate this week the most important social welfare legislation in a generation, as Democratic leaders claim? Or is it so compromised that the final product is not worth the agony, and the political risk, required to produce it?

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STUDY: GRIEVING PROCESS DIFFERENT AMONG ALZHEIMER CAREGIVERS

Caring for an Alzheimer's patient can create stress and grief, but not everyone handles the issues of being a caregiver the same way as new research from the University of Michigan reveals.

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