Nursing Informatics: “The field of nursing informatics has been on the brain of the industry for years. A HIMSS report released at the 2015 conference found almost 70 percent of informatics nurses are helping with medical device integration. And half of the survey respondents said informatics nurses have a role with “smart devices.” But at […]
Virtual Hospitals?
What Could Go Wrong? Artificial Intelligence Used To Detect Early Warning Signs In Patients
I was reviewing a medical record today and came across a caveat I’ve seen before without paying a lot of attention. Portions of this chart may have been created with Dragon voice recognition software. Occasional wrong-word or “sound-alike” substitutions may have occurred due to the inherent limitations of voice recognition software. Please read the chart […]
Journal of Patient Safety: Interhospital Transfers Increase Adverse Events
CT Images Projected Onto Surgical Patients Improve Quality
Stroke Treatment Breakthrough
When I started this blog a couple of years ago, I wrote a series of posts that I called “What Is A Jury Trial?”. You can find the whole series here: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six and Seven. Long after writing these posts, I made a video talking about jury trials. You can find that video on our website page “‘About the Firm” and […]
The Cost Of Medical Errors During Delivery
You can read recent stories and video of a patient dumping by Baltimore Hospital here and here and here. And here is a link to a professional study: Patient Dumping: The Dark Side of Health Care in America.
