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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DALLAS -- An emergency room might be the last place you'd think would have do-it-yourself check-in. But Parkland Memorial Hospital has three self-service computer kiosks, similar to those used by airport passengers and hotel guests. And so do a handful of other hospital ERs, where the long wait i...
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Hospitals â public and private, large and small â are spending hundreds of millions of dollars renovating, rebuilding and expanding their emergency rooms.
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Because of its geographically dispersed staff and high percentage of telecommuting employees, Intellicare Inc., which operates health-related call centers, has drawn big benefits from implementing an instant messaging platform.
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Needle-phobic children and their stressed-out parents may catch a break with a Franklin firm&#39;s device that makes it faster and easier to apply local pain relief.
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One of the most successful businesses in the Washington area isn't technically a business at all -- it's a not-for-profit named Inova Health System. Over the past 40 years, what started out as a loose affiliation of three community hospitals in Fairfax County has transformed itself into the dominant...
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The health insurer beats some estimates and raises others.
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With many health care facilities struggling to find flu vaccine, some small suppliers have capitalized on the acute shortage by demanding as much as 10 times the usual price.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency recently rolled out an Intranet that has helped it handle overflow processing for hurricane disaster relief.
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Vivisimo, an Internet search engine company, is introducing a service that is meant to lessen online information overload.
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A local firm&#39;s technology is behind a new Internet-based early-warning system that could help detect health threats to the global population.
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Construction work on a state-of-the-art emergency unit at a Pembrokeshire hospital underway.
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St. Francis Heart Hospital in Tulsa, Okla., was built to be digital from the ground up. By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee. While many existing hospitals across the country are attempting to transform from paper-burdened
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Boosting the bottom line isn't always about cutting costs or improving distribution channels. One company found success by building a better online community.
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CHICAGO -- Hundreds of hospitals around the country are joining the most ambitious project ever undertaken to give faster emergency room care to people suffering major heart attacks.
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Many NHS patients could soon be able to make an appointment to see their GP over the internet.
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WEDNESDAY, Dec. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Although it has been a long time coming, physicians are beginning to consider the Internet an integral part of their practice.