Katrina; eICU; CME; RFID; Grab

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• Katrina Shows Need to Computerize Records
  “There may not have been an experience that demonstrates, for me or the country, more powerfully the need for electronic health records … than Katrina,” Health and Human Services Secretary
  (tags: disasters HIPAA EHR)
• Constant care {eICU, Visicu}
  The Leapfrog Group, a coalition of U.S. employers advocating improvements in health care, has said the quality of care in ICU largely depends on whether specialty intensivists are presiding. More than 4 million people are admitted into intensive care unit
  (tags: quality technology telemedicine)
• Comparison of the Instructional Efficacy of Internet-Based CME With Live Interactive CME Workshops: A Randomized Controlled Trial, September 7, 2005, Fordis et al. 294 (9): 1043
  Appropriately designed, evidence-based online CME can produce objectively measured changes in behavior as well as sustained gains in knowledge that are comparable or superior to those realized from effective live activities.
  (tags: CME quality physicians)
• Passive RFID not ready for prime time in healthcare
  Trends in RFID” study found that many healthcare organizations are investing in active RFID technology instead of passive RFID. In an active RFID application, signals are continuously transmitted between transponders and transceivers. Passive RFID syste
  (tags: RFID healthcare technology quality)
• After the Storm: ACEP and AAEM
  So, ACEP’s site is filled with useful links, and AAEM wants everyone to know they’re thinking about it from France. Not a good way to recruit.
  (tags: EM physicians)
• Ebay Buys Six Apart
  Ebay cannot accept the risk of having a powerful supplier that essentially has a monopoly on VoIP because Skype has a viral product that runs on a closed network with network effects. You could describe Paypal the same way: a viral product that runs on a
  (tags: VoIP)
• 93-year old granny grabs robber by the balls
  But Miss Popova, from Klaipeda, was not quite as frail as she looked however, and shocked the two young men by fighting back fiercely and grabbing one of them by the testicles. The plucky pensioner, who says she has developed a “grip like iron” due to her
  (tags: humor)