MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'guest blog'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:30:19 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4241710&cid=t_127503_87_f&fid=36516&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FAScannerBrightly%2F%7E3%2FUuEzv9lIsXA%2F This article was written by Jodi Smith of HealthInsuranceQuotes.org, an online resource for those seeking the best health insurance quotes. HMO, PPO, POS… Huh? If you look at these commonly used acronyms and are completely clueless as to what they … Continue reading → (Source: A Scanner Brightly) A Scanner Brightly blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4241710 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:46:59 +0100 4241710 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3529964&cid=t_127503_134_f&fid=35187&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDiabetesDaily%2F%7E3%2FLCa9UvCGvq8%2Fhey-look-over-there.php Hi everyone! Short post just to let you know I am guest blogging today over at Six Until Me. I didn't know it was her blogaversary so I showed up without a present! :(   I'm talking about balance and I would really appreciate if you hopped over there to give it a look!   (Source: Diabetes Daily) Diabetes Daily blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3529964 Tue, 04 May 2010 15:35:48 +0100 3529964 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2306681&cid=t_127503_87_f&fid=36516&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FAScannerBrightly%2F%7E3%2FA1MNc9hHuew%2Fguest-blog-collective-clinical-wisdom.html I'd like to invite and encourage all clinicians to register for the openEHR Foundation's new Clinical Knowledge Manager (CKM) - found online at www.openehr.org/knowledge. CKM is an international repository for openEHR archetypes and has two primary purposes - that of archetype publication and archetype governance. It is a real opportunity for clinicians to collaborate and agree on clinical content definitions for publication and use in our electronic health records.openEHR archetypes are open source, computable specifications that define clinical information about a single and discrete clinical concept. For example there are separate archetypes defining a 'symptom', 'diagnosis', 'blood pressure', 'medication order', and 'risk of disease based on family history'. As structured and standardi... A Scanner Brightly blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2306681 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:20:00 +0100 2306681 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2210579&cid=t_127503_107_f&fid=35762&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Fgrrlscientist%2F%7E3%2FnvNZJrYHkiI%2Fsuccessfully_keeping_celebes_r.php tags: guest blog essay, fishkeeping, aquariums, Celebes Rainbowfish, Celebes Sailfish, Telmatherina ladigesi, pets Adult male Celebes Rainbowfish (also known as a Celebes Sailfish), Telmatherina ladigesi. Image: Orphaned. Please contact me so I can award proper attribution. [larger view]. As most of my readers know, I am an evolutionary biologist and ornithologist by training, and an aviculturist and birder by experience, so imagine my surprise when I was recently asked to write a guest blog essay about fishkeeping for an aquarium hobbyist blog site, The Reef Tank. How the heck did they know I am an avid aquarist? I wondered. But the truth is that before I started keeping and breeding birds, I kept and bred fish (I still keep fish now), and I even was a manager of the fish depar... Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2210579 Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:59:59 +0100 2210579 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2132521&cid=t_127503_107_f&fid=35762&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Fgrrlscientist%2F%7E3%2FWyKWmHNcStM%2Fmy_guest_piece_about_rainbowfi.php tags: Celebes Rainbowfish, Celebes Sailfish, Telmatherina ladigesi, guest blog essay, brackish water fish As you might remember, I have been busily writing guest blog articles (and an article for my column in a print magazine published by the Avicultural Society of America), but one of my "guest blog" essays has just been published for all to read at The Reef Tank. Here is a link to the completed essay, an edited version will be republished here in its entirety in one month (now that I see it published, I wanted to change a few things to make it read better, so those changes have been made to the version I have scheduled to publish here later). Read the comments on this post... (Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)) Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2132521 Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:07:45 +0100 2132521 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1498001&cid=t_127503_87_f&fid=36516&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FAScannerBrightly%2F%7E3%2F305378172%2Fguest-blog-war-being-waged-against.html Warning: You May Find The Statistics You Are about to Read AlarmingOne in every 20 hospital patients contracts an infection unrelated to their primary condition during a hospital stay, adding up to approximately two million people each year. According to estimates from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), hospital acquired infections (HAIs) claim the lives of approximately 90,000 patients annually, a number greater than breast cancer and auto accident deaths combined. While these statistics are certainly alarming, the good news is that hospitals across the globe are stepping up their infection prevention initiatives and the war against HAIs is heating up. Dirty hands, inadequately cleaned equipment and lax procedures are all contributing to the dilemma and have become the subject of... A Scanner Brightly blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1498001 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:37:00 +0100 1498001 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1407299&cid=t_127503_109_f&fid=35677&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FBrainBasedBusiness%2F%7E3%2F280269220%2Fgl_hoffmans_take_on_intelligen.html This blog is a response to my invitation to GL Hoffman's thoughts on business intelligence.I laughed when I read GL's opener ... "This Was Intimidating..." But the wit and wisdom I'd looked forward to most ... flowed freely below! Ellen asking me to write a guest post for her blog, Brain Based Business!!!, is a bit like Derek Jeter asking me to come over to Yankee Stadium to catch some grounders with him.  Sounds fun at first, but there is a very real chance I will embarrass myself, my family, my company and all my dead relatives.  Plus the uniform will make me look like I am wearing tightie-whities from head to toe.  This could get ugly fast.I learned long ago that I blog best when I don’t think so much.  This is probably very appa... BrainBasedBusiness blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1407299 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:00:30 +0100 1407299 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1120981&cid=t_127503_87_f&fid=36516&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FAScannerBrightly%2F%7E3%2F207597410%2Fguest-blog-open-source-and-primary-care.html Tim Cook, a vocal proponent and leader of open source in the health care IT space and owner of possibly the most impressive list of achievements in the FOSS-meets-HIT space, managed to stumble across a post I made a while back about the National Health Information Network. Even though he was apparently having a much more interesting Christmas than I was, he took the time to drop me a note which led to the guest blog below. Thanks Tim!Back in March 2007 Jaz-Michael King posted about open sourcing the National Health Information Network (NHIN). There are success stories regarding using open source as part of some trials being done with NHIN record locating such as the Mendocino HRE as well as others.But, as Jaz pointed out in December 2007, Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs) a... A Scanner Brightly blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1120981 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:23:00 +0100 1120981 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=790634&cid=t_127503_140_f&fid=35465&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychlaws.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F08%2Fguest-blog-justice-and-discrimination.html Guest BlogWritten by Angela Vickers, author of Brain Bondage- The Delay in Mental Illness RecoveryWhen I first faced injustice due to my mental illness diagnosis, I thought that all I needed was a good lawyer who understood bipolar recovery. I assumed there was justice, even for those with a mental illness diagnosis. The more I asked for legal help, the more I learned about prejudice and how little lawyers knew about mental illnesses. I understood the problem, as I knew nothing about psychiatric illness when I experienced my manic episode at age 36. Like me, I learned that few people knew even the most basic facts about bipolar and the other mental illnesses.Discrimination was and is pervasive.As with other national battles for civil rights, a victory for those with mental illness will req... Treatment Advocacy Center blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=790634 Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:30:00 +0100 790634 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=783052&cid=t_127503_140_f&fid=35465&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychlaws.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F08%2Fguest-blog-pennsylvanias-advocacy.html GUEST BLOG:Written by Jeanette Castello, Co-Chair of the Pennsylvania Treatment Law Steering CommitteeAccording to Pennsylvania’s treatment laws the crisis worker who told Marjorie Miller that she was not able to take Kenneth Miller to be admitted to a hospital was just following the law.Members of an advocacy effort to change our treatments laws are currently working to see Pennsylvania Senate Bill 226 passed so individuals with severe mental illness and a history of hospitalizations, homelessness, and/or time spent in jail or prison will be able to receive the timely, compassionate treatment they need. SB 226 is modeled after the proven successful Kendra’s Law. This law helps the small minority of people - who are often non-compliant with prescribed medications - to remain in treatme... Treatment Advocacy Center blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=783052 Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:44:00 +0100 783052 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=697015&cid=t_127503_140_f&fid=35465&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychlaws.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F06%2Fnew-book-crazy-in-america.html Mary Beth Pfeiffer is the author of “Crazy in America: The Hidden Tragedy of Our Criminalized Mentally Ill”. In this book Pfeiffer profiles the lives of people with mental illness in the criminal justice system.As you know, the Treatment Advocacy Center is dedicated to eliminating barriers to the timely and effective treatment of severe mental illnesses. TAC advocates for treatment before people become entangled with the criminal justice system. Here is a special guest blog entry from Mary Beth Pfeiffer in her words:"Children wait in emergency rooms for psychiatric beds, sometimes for days." --- June 1, 2007, Hartford Courant editorial.We all know that America had better than a half-million psychiatric hospital beds 50 years ago, beds that were whittled down in a great, silent wave o... Treatment Advocacy Center blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=697015 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:56:00 +0100 697015