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Cost-Cutting Savvy: IT Replacing Computer Mice with Real Mice

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LOS ANGELES, CA - Health care systems are always implementing innovative new ways to defray costs, and it turns out Los Angeles Medical Center...

Patients Starve to Death Due to Hospital-Wide EMR Policy

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A large university hospital just lost all of its patients over the course of a month after a new policy went into place, only...
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IT Requires EMR Password to be 500 Characters Long

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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...
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This Day in Medical History: John Hancock Co-Signs the Declaration of Independence

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THIS DAY IN MEDICAL HISTORY, 1776 - On this day in both medical and American history, the President of the Second Continental Congress, John...
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Breaking: CMS Creates New Blame Anesthesia ICD-10 Codes

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) & National Center of Health Statistics (HCHS) have created a new set of...
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Breaking: Burned-Out Medical Scribe Hires Own Medical Scribe

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AUGUSTA, GA - Exhausted and admittedly burned out from taking notes for emergency room (ER) health care professionals at Augusta Medical Center, medical scribe...
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CDC Mandates Life Preservers to Avoid Drowning in Paperwork

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ATLANTA, GA - The result of an alarming increase in paperwork-associated deaths by drowning, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has officially...

Therapy Dogs Now Required to Write Progress Notes

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BOSTON, MA – In another unprecedented move by the Joint Commission (JC), therapy dogs will now be required to write progress notes on the patients...
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IT Departments Upgrade EHRs with 28.8K Dial-Up Modems

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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...
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Breaking: Doctor Inconsolable Over Loss of Favorite Pen

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TOWSON, MD - Unable to hold back the tears welling up in his eyes since he learned of the heartbreaking news, internal medicine attending...