Emergency Care Gets Online Boost at Inova
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Only two months ago, the Emergency Department at Inova Fair Oaks Hospital was piled high with patient charts: files clogged with physicians' notes and nurses' follow-throughs, with test orders and lab results and a plethora of other printouts and paperwork. As in most EDs, keeping track of everyt...
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If you haven't heard of Inverness Medical Innovations Inc. , the Waltham medical-testing company on one of the biggest shopping sprees in the healthcare industry, it's no accident.
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Several companies have sprung up in recent years to help people with serious illnesses and their families stay easily connected.
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Construction work on a state-of-the-art emergency unit at a Pembrokeshire hospital underway.
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The keyboard is mightier than the whiteboard at an emergency room in the Bronx where the use of computers is now a staple.
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For paramedics in rural areas, responding to frantic calls for help is at times akin to doing a high-wire act without a net. Mountains, valleys, bad weather and long distances between hospitals make communication with emergency room physicians spotty at best and nonexistent at worst.
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Online tools can help workers assess their planâs health.
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Company beefs up online service for shipping business information between firms over the Net.
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By Jeffrey Kelley, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.  Jun. 18--Virginia Commonwealth University Health System is installing a network that allows doctors to exchange electronic medical records wirelessly and patients to send e-mail and use the Internet from bed.
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Service Employees International Union says Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has higher emergency care costs than other major Boston hospitals, and makes greater use of a state pool to be reimbursed for free care it provides uninsured patients.
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BUFFALO, NY A growing number of hospitals are adopting &quot;enhanced intensive care&quot; technology -- or &quot;eICU.&quot;. The technology allows critical care doctors and nurses to monitor dozens of patients at different hospitals
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Inova Fairfax Hospital officials have offered to pay a team of 22 urologists a fee for every indigent patient they treat on call in its emergency department, satisfying some doctors and probably averting a showdown that threatened critical care.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - Operators of North America&#39;s first safe injection site for intravenous drug users are claiming success, saying the site has &quot;saved lives and improved lives.
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How a hospital deployed a wireless system that is significantly improving patient care and has a stellar return-on-investment.
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A website aims to allow patients to see how private and voluntary hospitals and health providers are performing.
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Before me lies the patient, a Gateway computer running Windows 98. It is suffering from extremely clogged Internet arteries, unable to reach the Web. As one of The Washington Post's digital doctors, my task is to nurse the machine back to health so my colleague Kathleen Day can access her e-mail and file stories from home.
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Doctors and nurses say mobile casualty units set up to deal with drunk and injured revellers are a success.