The strongest advocate for expanding Medicaid’and the likely source of funding for the massive advertising campaign’is the hospital lobby.We hear that hospitals are going broke. They can’t make ends meet. ...
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When the Cleveland Clinic determined in 2008 that its anesthesia information management system wasn’t meeting its needs, the Clinic charged leaders within its own walls with creating a better system. ...
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February 27, 2013 10:50 am by Amy Siegel | 3 Comments
Robots represent a vision of the future, a vision that inspires two parts amazement and one part fear of being replaced by superior machines. In manufacturing, robots have been deployed ...
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When surgeons are removing a tumor, it’s critical that they remove the tumor in its entirety without taking too much of the surrounding healthy tissue along with it. While MRIs ...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health regulators on Wednesday issued the strongest possible warning to physicians to avoid prescribing codeine to children after surgery to remove tonsils, adenoids or both.The U.S. ...
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The proportion of women having their uterus removed using robotic-assisted surgery increased from one in 200 procedures in 2007 to almost one in 10 in ...
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February 11, 2013 11:20 am by Stephanie Baum | 0 Comments
One of the biggest challenges in recovering from surgery, particularly on a tendon, is the amount of time patients take to recover. One reason is because the adhesions that are ...
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Moty Avisar and Alon Geri have backgrounds in flight simulation. Dr. Warren Selman is neurosurgeon-in-chief at University Hospitals in Cleveland. Together, the three top minds behind Surgical Theater have developed ...
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new look at real-world outcomes for women with early-stage breast cancer finds that breast-conserving surgery may offer survival odds that are as good, or ...
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January 28, 2013 9:21 am by Shedden, Mary | 0 Comments
Patients expect some preoperative homework when they schedule a surgical procedure.Stop eating and drinking at midnight; no chomping down on fried foods the night before. Makeup or nail polish is ...
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A professor of surgery and a dean for research with New Jersey medical schools are getting grant money from the state to build a better pair of surgical gloves and ...
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Live tweeting a surgery isn’t exactly a novel social media tactic anymore. Since 2009, dozens of hospitals have narrated procedures with 140-character tidbits, from hand transplants to hysterectomies.So it wasn’t ...
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What’s the vision of medical device firms as they innovate for a new model of care, not just in the U.S. but globally?What they see, according to a new report, ...
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As more people, and younger people, are opting for joint replacement surgeries, hospitals are looking for ways to improve the turnover time for these procedures.Meanwhile, they’re also innovating toward value-based ...
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It’s one thing to read about companies developing amazing medical technologies, but it’s a completely different thing to actually see them in use.Pauline Tam, a writer for Postmedia News in ...
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