The PCEHR Concept of Operations – As Released Today – Is Just Not A Goer.
We have these reports from this morning: Draft plan for e-health disappoints: $500m records system a ‘viewing service’ for patients Karen Dearne From: The Australian April 12, 2011 12:00AM ALMOST $500 million is being spent on an e-health record system that will not provide real-time medical information at the point of care. Instead, it will [...]
Gluten and Autoimmune Disease Risk
We have spoken before about the strong association between gluten and autoimmune disease. And we have mentioned that of industrialized nations, the autoimmune diseases when taken as a whole are the third leading cause of death, only behind heart disease and cancer. Research continues to support and further corroborate that gluten, with its protein structure [...]
Sooner or Later Restoring Sanity to Your End of Life Care
Damiano de Sano Iocovozzi, author of Sooner or Later, has a new video this week with an advance care planning message for those past a medical cure, or a remission and who need to take control of the rest of their lives.
Impact of delayed admission from the ER
Longer hospital LOS and higher charges in this study:ResultsApproximately 11.6% (n=1558) of admitted patients experienced admission delay. In multivariate analysis we found that admission delay was associated with 12.4% longer IP LOS (95 % CI 6.6% – 18.5%) and 11.0% greater total IP cost (6.0% – 16.4%). We estimated the cumulative impact of delay on [...]
Participation in clean-up of oil spill associated with airway injury and chromosomal damage
In 2002, the oil tanker Prestige spilled more than 67 000 tons of bunker oil, heavily contaminating the coast of northwestern Spain. The study population included local fishermen who were highly exposed (n = 501) or not exposed (n = 177) to oil. They were evaluated 2 years after the spill. Elevated markers of airway [...]
