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Testing the iPad for diagnostic imaging. Radiologists using the iPad 2 took twice as long to diagnose patients with tuberculosis as those who used a 27-inch LCD monitor in a new University of Maryland study. However, the research found that the two screens yielded no significant difference in display or diagnosis. As of now, FDA-cleared diagnostic imaging apps like Mobile MIM are OK’d for use only when a traditional display is unavailable.
Hope for anti-depressants. For decades, anti-depressants have targeted a certain set of chemicals in the brain like epinephrine, serotonin and dopamine, and they don’t work in up to 40 percent of patients. Researchers are now turning to new drugs including riluzole, scopolamine and ketamine, an FDA-approved anesthetic known as Special K, which in studies have relieved depression almost instantly in patients.
The New Blueprint: How Clever Care Health Plan is Scaling Its Member Experience [Video]
MedCity News was at the Vive conference and spoke with executives who shared their insights for the healthcare industry.
GE pulls the plug on web EHR. GE is shutting down its web-based EHR, Centricity Advance, which it acquired from MedPlexus in 2010. The company says it wants to eliminate confusion with its products and focus on a single, ambulatory EMR platform.
More about obesity in healthcare professionals. Remember that story about overweight doctors from yesterday? Here’s another piece to the puzzle. A University of Maryland School of Nursing study found that 55 percent of the more than 2,000 nurses it surveyed were overweight or obese, citing lack of sleep and high stress levels for their weight problems.
Nursing home shortage on the horizon? We’ve heard about a nursing shortage and a physician shortage, but who’s talking about the nursing home shortage? Getting public and private funding for nursing homes isn’t as easy as it once was, and combined with cuts to reimbursement and the real estate crash, nursing homes could be in trouble, leaving the aging boomer generation without some of the care it needs.