Cost-Cutting Savvy: IT Replacing Computer Mice with Real Mice
LOS ANGELES, CA - Health care systems are always implementing innovative new ways to defray costs, and it turns out Los Angeles Medical Center (LAMC) has come up with the best idea yet, today...
Patients Starve to Death Due to Hospital-Wide EMR Policy
A large university hospital just lost all of its patients over the course of a month after a new policy went into place, only allowing providers to have one patient’s chart open at a...
IT Requires EMR Password to be 500 Characters Long
BOSTON, MA - Reflecting what is soon-to-be standard practice at all health care systems across the country, the Information Technology Department at Massachusetts Lieutenant General Hospital (MLGH) requires that anyone accessing the electronic medical...
This Day in Medical History: John Hancock Co-Signs the Declaration of Independence
THIS DAY IN MEDICAL HISTORY, 1776 - On this day in both medical and American history, the President of the Second Continental Congress, John Hancock, co-signed his delegates' document as follows:
"I saw and examined...
Breaking: CMS Creates New Blame Anesthesia ICD-10 Codes
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) & National Center of Health Statistics (HCHS) have created a new set of ICD-10 codes allowing non-Anesthesiology health care professionals to both blame...
Breaking: Burned-Out Medical Scribe Hires Own Medical Scribe
AUGUSTA, GA - Exhausted and admittedly burned out from taking notes for emergency room (ER) health care professionals at Augusta Medical Center, medical scribe Amy Bruckner has taken it upon herself to hire her...
CDC Mandates Life Preservers to Avoid Drowning in Paperwork
ATLANTA, GA - The result of an alarming increase in paperwork-associated deaths by drowning, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has officially mandated that all health care professionals wear life preservers when...
Therapy Dogs Now Required to Write Progress Notes
BOSTON, MA – In another unprecedented move by the Joint Commission (JC), therapy dogs will now be required to write progress notes on the patients they see. The move has infuriated therapy dogs all across...
IT Departments Upgrade EHRs with 28.8K Dial-Up Modems
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The information technology (IT) departments of hospitals nationwide made a New Year's resolution to hinder the efforts of practicing health care professionals like never before. Mission accomplished: Yesterday IT departments completed...
Breaking: Doctor Inconsolable Over Loss of Favorite Pen
TOWSON, MD - Unable to hold back the tears welling up in his eyes since he learned of the heartbreaking news, internal medicine attending Gary Buxton was inconsolable at the nurses station over the...