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Research vice presidents for academic health centers agree HIPAA has serious and often detrimental effects on biomedical research.
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Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, in a speech in New York on Sept. 7, 1903, said, "Far and away, the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."
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It used to be that patients would just listen and do what they were told. Not anymore.
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Who would ever believe that one could enter a hospital and confuse it for a spa?
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At the Cleveland Clinic, smoke-free means more than clearing the air in the hospital. The hospital doesn't want employees smoking anywhere even in their own homes. Smokers need not bother applying for a job, unless they intend to quit.
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When health care workers take a break from caring for patients with heart disease, diabetes, or other diseases influenced by diet, what food choices do they have? A vending machine with potato chips and chocolate bars? A cafeteria with fried chicken and French fries?
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This group of health policy leaders sought to learn the proportion of physicians who are currently using electronic health records, whether they were satisfied with the systems they used, and what impact the physicians believe that these systems have on quality of patient care.
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Pulmonary crackles (the physical finding previously known as râles, French for "rattle") are commonly sought to confirm a diagnosis of heart failure (HF) and can be fine, medium, or coarse. However, crackles can occur in other diseases (interstitial lung disease, asbestosis, alveolitis, and bronchiectasis) and in presumably normal people.