Informatics nurses are getting more commonplace – even if their leadership isn’t. A new report on informatics nurses released at HIMSS 2015 this week showed that these nurses, who mix traditional skills with computer science and IT, are taking a bigger role in healthcare technology. Nearly 70 percent of informatics nurses are helping with medical device […]
Women outnumber men in the nursing profession by more than 10 to 1. But men still earn more, a new study finds. The report in this week’s Journal of the American Medical Association found that even after controlling for age, race, marital status and children in the home, males in nursing out-earned females by nearly […]
Going to a nurses union meeting is a little bit like going to an evangelical church service. “We all have to stand up, and it’s a struggle,” says Veronica Cambra, a nurse reporting a grievance at Kaiser Hospital in Fremont, Calif., as though she’s giving testimony. “And we will overcome this, OK?” The rest of […]
Starting July 15, nurse practitioners in Kentucky who have completed a four-year collaboration with a physician will be allowed to prescribe routine medications without a doctor’s involvement, a major shift that could help improve consumers’ access to care. The law that makes this possible passed after five years of legislative debate. Nurse practitioners are fighting […]
Although the school nurse is a familiar figure, school-based health care is unfamiliar territory to many medical professionals, operating in a largely separate health care universe from other community-based medical services. Now, as both schools and health care systems seek to ensure that children coping with chronic conditions such as diabetes and asthma get the comprehensive, coordinated […]
Rose Okoro, a nurse practitioner who specializes in family medicine, opened the Daystar Family Clinic in Katy, Texas, last October. Seven months later, she has only enough patients to work there part time. It is not because of demand but beca...
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
A colleague's comment some 15 years ago sparked Dr. Tim Garson's grand idea for a way to expand access to affordable healthcare while lowering costs to the system. “He came up to me and said, you know, 50 percent of my patients could be taken care of by a good grandmother,” recalled Garson, now the director of the Center for Health Policy at University of Virginia.
A doctor in Tulsa has an inside look at a Medicare pilot project. John Henning Schumann is a primary care physician and teaches at the University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine. His practice gets $40 per month per high-risk patient. The money goes to a team of nurses who provide follow-up care to patients, […]
Robots in hospitals tend to be associated with complex surgical procedures. But they have been gaining traction as a useful way to help hospitals ferry supplies and equipment around their facilities. There’s also some applications for telemedicine. Robotics Business Review held a competition highlighting technology innovations in robotics called the Game Changer Awards. Here’s an overview […]
In 2012, Emily Helck was diagnosed with breast cancer. Watch the viral video above to see the progression of her cancer treatment. These photos are true breast cancer awareness, and they aren’t wrapped up in pink ribbon. “Cancer is embarrassing,” she told ABC News. “As a friend or co-worker or acquaintance, it’s hard to know […]
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Talk about empathy. It was impossible not to feel it for both the patients and the hospital staff in The Waiting Room, a documentary that aired on PBS last night. The film follows patients and hospital staff through 24 hours in the overcrowded Emergency Department of a charity hospital stretched to beyond its limits. More […]
The news would be devastating to any young mother, but for a nurse accustomed to working with oncology patients it was even more so. After taking maternity leave from her job at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida following the birth of her second child, Nicole Barlanti was diagnosed with stage 4 Glioblastoma Multiforme, an aggressive […]
Reducing re-admissions is practically a cottage industry. With hospitals facing penalties for higher than average rates of readmission for certain conditions, health IT companies and entrepreneurs have responded with an array of analytical and remote monitoring tools. They can range from identifying patients at risk for readmission to alerting staff to patients who appear to […]
As a registered nurse, Jill Drew has watched the number of type 2 diabetes patients with chronic kidney failure grow. More than half of these patients have an arterioveinous fistula surgically created in the arm to create an easier, safer access point for dialysis, thanks to a CMS initiative called Fistula First. But Drew has […]
Nurse practitioners say efforts to expand primary care to millions of Americans under the health law are hampered by insurance industry practices that limit or exclude their participation. Despite laws in 17 states and the District of Columbia allowing...
