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Fund Crunch Hits Indian Drug Trial
Three years after the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) said it would conduct a drug trial to test a novel drug-regimen for tuberculosis (TB), lack of funds is throttling the project, several officials involved with the project told The Hindu on condition of anonymity. “The project is in the ICU (intensive care unit),” said an officer, “and unless the CSIR takes a decision it is likely to die.”...
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How Analytics Are Changing Health Care
There is more to federal health IT than HealthCare.gov. And as agencies grapple with public health research and the care of their patient populations, innovators outside government are showing what's possible with improved electronic health records (EHRs) and predictive analytics.
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Moving Towards Transformational TeleHealth At Intermountain Healthcare
Wesley Valdes, D.O., telehealth services director at Intermountain Healthcare, sees the future of telehealth Read More »
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Nurses' Scrubs Often Contaminated with Bad Bugs
Bad bugs readily spread from patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) to nurses' scrubs and the room, according to research being presented at IDWeek 2016™. The sleeves and pockets of the scrubs and the bed railing were the most likely to be contaminated. The study tracked the transmission of bacteria known to be particularly troublesome in hospitals, including those such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Klebsiella pneumoniae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which are resistant to many antibiotics...
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PraediCare
Praedicare is a state of the art visualization, analytics and reporting system developed by Bitscopic that enables clinicians and administrators to discover, identify, and pursue opportunities to improve team coordination and deliver higher quality, predictable outcomes and care in the operating room (OR), post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) and intensive care unit (ICU). The OR, PACU and ICU have distinct needs since their focus is oriented towards acute care management, surgery, post-anesthetic recovery, critical care interventions and inpatient settings.
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What's The Role Of A Hospital In 10 Years?
Dr. Eric Topol was named #1 Most Influential Physician Executive in Healthcare of 2012 by Modern Healthcare so his views are closely watched. In addition to his role as a cardiologist, geneticist and author of the Creative Destruction of Medicine, he’s also the Editor-in-Chief of Medscape (WebMD’s leading physician offering). Read More »
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