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22 hours ago ago from Revenue Cycle Institute
The chief medical officer of the CMS Barry Straube, MD, said in a recent Associated Press article that the hospitals participating in the CMS-sponsored Care Transitions Program are reporting that the number of readmissions at their facilities is declining. The news comes eight months after CMS announced the 14 communities participating in the pilot program , which aims to “improve health care processes so that patients, their caregivers, ...
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This guy must have been really naughty this year. An assailant brutally beat a man who was stacking wood near his home, leaving him with gashes and bruises over most of his body. Emergency department staff were amazed that the patient was not in worse shape. Police are on the lookout for one of Santa's reindeer . Beating a 5-week-old infant to the point that she has to go to the emergency department won't garner you much sympathy in the ...
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13 hours ago ago from Australian Politics
ZEG In his latest offering, conservative Australian cartoonist ZEG has some derisive words for Kevin Rudd's Copenhagen junket. Public pressure forces some decency out of offensive QANTAS subsidiary Too bad if you can't get a major newspaper to give big publicity to your complaint, though Jetstar has suspended a gate attendant who allegedly abused a female passenger and had her thrown off a flight and apologised for the airline's ...
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17 hours ago ago from iPhone Medical Apps: news, reviews, trends
Source: informationweek.com After getting a referral, a clinician typically heads to the hospital to interview medical personnel and possibly the patient or the patient's family. The clinician enters information about the patient into the iPhone app, and then submits it to the medical director, who makes final approvals, often using his or her own iPhone. RehabCare is thinking about how it can now streamline that process even more for ...
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