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This hospital has been on the list of Desperate Hospitals more than once and in the news quite a bit as well. 
There have been a few CEOs and the hospital last year was on the brink of having to close, but luckily through donations the hospital is still here. Kaiser last year also donated 5 million. BD
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At “Informatics, or Infomagic? Health IT Cannot Flourish When Everybody is an Expert” I lamented that those lacking healthcare and HC informatics experience were growing bolder in their cross-occupational invasion of medicine, and were deluded about their own lack of knowledge in a very specialized domain.
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This is right from the web page of Rep. Allen Vaught in Texas. He is introducing a bill and is asking for thoughts and information. If you are a 
physician in Texas and have any input you want to add, theres an email listed to contact him. Recently the AMA, State of California, Georgia have already filed suit on this. In New York, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo won a settlement and the company, a subsidiary of United Health Care has agreed to disband the use of the data base.
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In this post I make a very shameful comparison. Shameful to the healthcare industry, that is, and coming from an unusual perspective due to my diverse professional background.
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Sean offers some good points here and specially how the transfer and incorporation of data is not yet a perfect world. The good side of this is that we have found data bases all around healthcare that offer information that can be added to a personal health record, so stop and think a second, would you rather be a proof reader or have to sit down and write the novel yourself? I make that comment from a point of reality, in other words what data are we now able to access.
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This is a post made by the Happy Hospitalist talking about an error, not deadly, but one that maybe should not have required admission to the hospital based on an error in the draw. One nice thing he does is to make sure to follow up and get the record corrected for insurance purposes, which is nice as something like this could give the individual trouble down the road. We are humans and make errors, but its always good to double check as it can hit any of us at any time. This was a good post in the fact that he asked for input from many to see what their thoughts were.
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As I have written many times, health IT can achieve many of its touted benefits, but only if done well. “Done well” is not as easy at it might seem in the complex world of healthcare.
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The Medical Quack around the web this week..a couple posts featured, one about the MediSlate Tablet PC for healthcare and a few additional opinion posts related to technology. As everyone knows by now, many healthcare charities were affected by the Madoff Scheme, thus I felt it was appropriate to add information here at the blog.
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The answer is provided by a new “5 Star Rating System” provided by Medicare. The nursing homes receiving the highest ratings include:
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This should stand to offer a bit of relief with the administration end of the procedures and other types such as skin cancer are now included. BD