The High Burden of Insurance Bureaucracy
Insurance bureaucracy is to medicine what a grand piano is to a patient witha broken leg- Nice to have, but hard to carry around with you every day. Arecent study has discovered that doctors offices spend up to 21 hours a weeksimply grappling with insurance rules. This enchanting, archaic process oftendrags in nurses as well, so the real cost of that 21 hours, which is around1000 hours per year, is staggering. The ...
New California Bill Aims To Reduce Nurse Injury Risk
The fine art of patient-lifting doesn’t usually get a lot of attention inthe media. Nor does the fact that this very delicate operation often results ininjuries to the people doing the lifting. A new bill in California aims toredress that situation. The current state of affairs is to put it mildlycreating difficulties for the health care sector:Continue reading »...
Joint Effort of Doctors, Nurses and Admins to Improve Quality of Care
Last Autumn, the New England Journal of Medicine released a reportindicating that despite many years of quality control programs, there was nonoticeable decrease in patient injuries. Sadly, this has been pretty much thestory for a long line of quality issues in all areas of health care.Continue reading »...
Sandford Guide gets new mobile app
The Sandford Guide for prevention and treatment of infectious diseasesnow has a new mobile app. This upgrade of the old paper system is seen as avery necessary upgrade, and it couldn’t have come at a better time, when mobilemedical facilities are becoming a new tier of health care around the nation.The new app can be used on iPhones, iPads and Android phones. There aremultiple areas of use for this app, particula...