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JCAHO revises performance areas for some surveys; SARS audio program updates guidelines
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While some hearing loss is inevitable as people age, there are steps that people can take to help protect their hearing. The most important, as would seem obvious, is to avoid exposure to excessive noise, says Robert Dobie, MD, professor of otolaryngology at the University of California, Davis.
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Eight years ago when the opportunity to create a learning center at The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia came up, Linda S. Kocent, RN, MSN, coordinator of patient-family education, applied for the job and got it.
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The privacy regulations enacted as part of the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) have caused some unforeseen complications for hospitals trying to ensure patient safety and improve communication between providers and patients, say health care professionals and legal experts.
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Most health care professionals would agree that patient safety continues to be a high priority for the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations in Oakbrook Terrace, IL.
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A Swiss firm has developed a new non-invasive, portable device that delivers, in a proprietary manner, low-voltage stimulation impulses to the patients skeletal muscles through adhesive electrodes to improve the efficiency of even the most damaged hearts.
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The American Vascular Association (AVA) reported recently that more than 10 million of the nation's vascular disease sufferers have not been diagnosed, signaling a need for increased public education on the issue. The results of the AVAs nationwide screening were announced at the 30th annual Veith Symposium International Vascular Surgery Conference in New York.
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An FDA advisory panel gave its unanimous backing to the second in what is likely to be a lengthening line of premarket approval (PMAs) applications for drug-eluting stents (DES). The nod went to the Taxus paclitaxel-eluting coronary stent from Boston Scientific (Natick, Massachusetts).
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Bio-Imaging Technologies (Newtown, Pennsylvania) has acquired the intellectual property of privately held CapMed (Wilmington, Delaware), including the Personal Health Record (PHR) software and the patent-pending Personal HealthKey technology. Financial terms of the transaction were undisclosed.
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Describing the effort as a revolution in health and care information, the UK government last month announced a program intended to result in every National Health Service (NHS) patient in England having an electronic care record by the end of this decade. British Telecom (BT) was awarded a 10-year contract to set up and run the national NHS Care Records Service.
