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Nursing Economics

Accounting consultants KPMG reported last month that the actual cost of a full-time RN was 176% of the base [MORE]

Trending Toward Concierge Care

In a way, concierge care is what family practice medicine used to be-i.e. doctors who knew their patients for [MORE]

Nation’s Lowest Hospital Readmission Rate

“Treat and street” is a slang expression that translates to a short length of stay (LOS) in the hospital.  While [MORE]

Nice Suite of Home Monitoring Products

This story is nearly a sponsored advertisement for iSOFT (Sydney, Australia), a maker of home and distance monitoring devices for [MORE]

The Old Dominion’s New Tricks

In March, the Virginia General Assembly cut Medicaid spending by seven percent, required reimbursement for telemedicine services, and became the [MORE]

Wireless Ambulances

In Motion Technology (Vancouver, BC) recently deployed its “Mobile Gateway” communications system on ambulances of MONOC Mobile Health Services, [MORE]

FierceHealthcare’s 7 Videos Worth Watching - Just for Fun!

All are silly and fun; my favorite is the “Anesthetist’s Hymn.”  Catch a laugh.   MORE

$1m Cost Avoidance with RFID

A hospital might easily have in excess of one IV pump for every bed in its facility (not counting several [MORE]

I-Phone Doc

Epocrates, Inc. (San Mateo, CA, founded in 1998) says that it now providing clinical information for point-of-care via Apple’s i-Phone [MORE]

Medical Apps for the iPhone

For a quick review of medical applications now available on Apple’s iPhone, see the Power Point at the site below.  [MORE]