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HIMSS Annual Conference - A Must Attend Event for Career Growth
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Health IT careers are built upon learning, expanding our reach and scope of insight and trying to find the novelties that make us unique in our own health IT careers. Having the ability to be introduced to an array of ideas, technologies, thoughts and concepts is integral to that effort. Also, we all know that it is an exciting time in healthcare and health IT but also somewhat confusing. We are seeing organizations coming together in the spirit of supporting quality healthcare practice and assimilating new ideas, technologies and best practices to meet and exceed our expe
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Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - September 12, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Helen Figge Tags: Career Services Industry News Workforce management Source Type: blogs
Which comes first: Doing or knowing?Email this article to a colleague.
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Received wisdom in cognitive behavioural therapy says that to change behaviour, a person must first change his or her thinking. This has created a tension between those clinicians who emphasise the cognitive aspects of pain management – and those who focus on helping people with pain do more. Should we educate and target cognitions, particularly those sticky core beliefs – or can we use behaviour change as a way to help the person make gains?
The answer is, as you’d have guessed, not black and white. In fact, as several authors and researchers have pointed out (see the references below for just two)...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - September 11, 2011 Category: Occupational Therapists Authors: adiemusfree Tags: ACT - Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Chronic pain Cognitive behavioral therapy Coping strategies Occupational therapy Pain conditions Physiotherapy Psychology Cognitive Behavioural Therapy mindfulness pain management Therapeutic app Source Type: blogs
The Mankind ProjectEmail this article to a colleague.
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URL: http://mankindproject.org/The ManKind Project is a global not for profit organization that conducts challenging and highly rewarding trainings for men at every stage of life. We help men through any transition, men at all levels of success, men facing almost any challenge.
For: Anyone, Consumers, AnyoneTopics: Clinical Psychology, Combat Stress, Common Factors, Diagnosis, General Psychology, Health Psychology, Health and Social Services, Lifestyle, Medico-Legal, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Trauma, Attachment, Behaviour Management, Clinical Psychology, Emotional Health, Fatherhood, Foundation Website, General Psych...
Source: PsychSplash - September 10, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Psych Central Resource Editor Tags: Anyone Articles Attachment Behaviour management Clinical Psychology Clinical Tools Commentary and Blogs Community and Social Networking Editor's Pick Emotional Health Fatherhood Features For Foundation Website General Psycholog Source Type: blogs
Helping a young pharmacist establish authority when faced with strong technician personalitiesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Note: Please visit this lady's website. The Wicked Chemist! She "affectionately" called me a troll, but she likes my posts!
This is a submitted question/dilemma from a young pharmacist known as "M" -- s/he is requesting that the community help her with some professional advice and recommendations from our little blogosphere community.
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As a new pharmacist, I have a dilemna concerning my role/authority in the pharmacy. Since I'm new to the store, I have a lot to learn from the senior techs as far as managing the pharmacy is concerned. In essence, they are actually training me to run the pharmacy. For thi...
Source: The Angriest Pharmacist - September 9, 2011 Category: Pharmacists and Pharmacologists Authors: TheAngriestPharmacist Tags: Courtesy GUEST CONTRIBUTOR Just a question management PHARMACY SECRETS! Politics Prescriptions Technicians Work Sucks Source Type: blogs
Heart Disease: is invasive stent placement better then taking pills?Email this article to a colleague.
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We expect that when something new about modern medicine is discovered, we will find the best course of action and treatment, and as a society, will move towards that, but it is proven time and time again how that theory can be completely wrong.
The “Courage” Study in 2007 was supposed to change the way that cardiologists functioned. Basically, it found that a generic group of drugs yielded the same results as a $15,000 heart stent procedure. And this was supposed to change everything. Doctors would start realizing that this was the right way to go, and not put their patients through procedure of questionable value. Bu...
Source: Doctor Kalitenko antiaging blog - September 9, 2011 Category: Physicians With Health Advice Authors: skalitenko Tags: Diabetes Did You Know? Diet and Nutrition General Health Just Because Problems and Solutions Recommendations Weight management Cholesterol Cholesterol Levels Source Type: blogs
How the Economy Affects HiringEmail this article to a colleague.
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In my previous role at MedTech Media, I helped manage recruitment advertising/job posting sales for both HIMSS JobMine and Healthcare Finance JobSpot. During this time I established relationships with many recruiters and HR representatives. We would often strategize about how to advertise a certain position because just posting it wasn’t enough. You’d think it would be an easy fill as there are plenty of job seekers on the market, but these conversations revealed a lot about how the economy impacts their ability to hire the right candidate.
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Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - September 8, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: EJ Fechenda Tags: Healthcare Finance JobSpot HIMSS JobMine Industry News Workforce management Source Type: blogs
Another Hospital Putting on the RitzEmail this article to a colleague.
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The usual definition of a hospital is an institution which treats the sick and injured,. That is a messy business, so some hospital executives seem to yearn to be doing something a little more - shall we say - upscale. For example, the Chattanoogan reported:Erlanger Health System will launch in October one of the most ambitious employee training initiatives in its 120-year history. All 4,500 employees will participate in a new service excellence program based on the legendary Ritz-Carlton service model.'This is not a program. This is the beginning of long-term cultural transformation,' says Erlanger CEO Ja...
Source: Health Care Renewal - September 7, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: Erlanger Health System generic managers generic management hospital systems Source Type: blogs
The Minimum Effective PostEmail this article to a colleague.
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I spent the weekend cleaning up old profiles, and working on some new time management material. As I considered the time I spend blogging, I realized how inefficient I have become. My life can easily become filled with distractions, which can fill minutes, hours, and even days. Sitting down and focusing on a post takes discipline. I wanted to once and for all figure out how long a post should take and set aside a daily time to efficiently do it.
I wanted to truly define… what is the minimum effective post?
How many words should it have?
How many links should it include?
How many keywords need to be included
How many pict...
Source: Success Begins Today - September 6, 2011 Category: Life Coaches Authors: John Richardson Tags: blog communication Productivity Time management blogging blogging frequency Source Type: blogs
Around and around and around we go – or…back to the beginning againEmail this article to a colleague.
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In the early days of non-medical chronic pain management, operant models of behavioural learning were used by Prof W Fordyce. At the time, this was a revolutionary approach to helping people with chronic pain reduce their disability, distress and depression by altering the reinforcement schedules operating on pain behaviour. It was such an innovation because it moved the focus from pain intensity to disability associated with pain, and in doing so, it offered hope to the many people who were otherwise thought unlikely to ever “get better”.
Operant models gradually fell out of favour as cognitive behavioural...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - September 5, 2011 Category: Occupational Therapists Authors: adiemusfree Tags: Low back pain Chronic pain Therapeutic approaches Research Assessment Pain conditions Professional topics biopsychosocial disability pain management Clinical reasoning treatment Occupational therapy physiotherapy Psychology f Source Type: blogs
Big Brother/Big Sister, Otherwise Known as MentorsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Growing up I had an older sister who really set the stage for many activities in my life. I aspired to meet or exceed her accomplishments and many times learned what worked and what didn’t in life’s journey. In our careers, we call this activity “mentoring” and we all need a mentor in our career paths. Mentors can help direct us and guide us through career paths that they themselves have taken and can help us to better familiarize ourselves with expectations, obstacles and accomplishments achieved through a certain path. Here at HIMSS we will
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Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - September 5, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Helen Figge Tags: Carla Smith Industry News Workforce management Source Type: blogs
Teen Gets Badge; Poses as Physician AssistantEmail this article to a colleague.
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Matthew Scheidt, Jr., 17, of Osceola, Fla., is facing felony charges. He was arrested September 2nd, accused of impersonating a physician’s assistant for five days at a central Florida hospital.
It all started on Aug. 24, when Scheidt allegedly went to the human resources office at the Osceola Regional Medical Center and requested a new hospital badge, according to the police report.
Impersonating a Physician Assistant is particularly dangerous as these professionals manage a high level of patient care. The American Academy of Physician Assistants describes the role this way:
PAs deliver a broad range of med...
Source: MSSPNexus Blog - September 4, 2011 Category: Health Managers Authors: Rita Schwab Tags: Patient Safety Professional Staff Admin Risk management credential verification human resources Source Type: blogs
All in the Family: When Spouses Work Together in the OfficeEmail this article to a colleague.
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Today’s guest post comes via Jill Fahy. Jill is a marketing writer for a pediatric software company. She wrote this piece about spouses working together. This of course touches home. For those that don’t know, Joanna, my wife is the senior doctor and owner of our medical practice. I manage the practice.
How do we make it work? Well, Joanna does all the heavy lifting taking care of children and I just pay a few bills here and there.
Actually, it does take some work. And Jill’s post has some very good examples from other physician’s offices that are managed by spouses.
Enjoy Jill’s post.
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Source: Pediatric Inc - September 4, 2011 Category: Pediatricians Authors: Brandon Tags: Uncategorized Business Office management Marriage Relationship Source Type: blogs
Sober24Email this article to a colleague.
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URL: http://www.sober24.com/Sober24, a service of the Hazeldun Foundation, provides an online fellowship for people who are sharing the journey of recovery from addiction and compulsive behaviors.
We are not bad people trying to be good; we are sick people trying to get well.
For: Anyone, Consumers, Students, Anyone, ConsumersTopics: Academia, Clinical Psychology, Educational Psychology, History of Psychology, Mental Health, Self-help, Varied, Varied Disorders, Varied Treatments, Abnormal, Addiction, Clinical Decision Making, Substance AbuseFeatures: Articles, Clinical Tools, Information, Research, Research Tools, e-learni...
Source: PsychSplash - September 2, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Psych Central Resource Editor Tags: Abnormal Addiction Anyone Assessment Instruments Chat Rooms Clinical Decision Making Clinical Tools Commentary and Blogs Community and Social Networking Consumers Editor's Pick Features For Forums Group management Information Source Type: blogs
How Dry I Am: Day-to-Day Life With Sjogren’s SyndromeEmail this article to a colleague.
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Many of us who live with autoimmune diseases wonder how many different ones we can have. Sometimes they seem to be piling up on us in a world in which one usually has one disease, we can have several. There are times they “bleed” into each other like sand art when the tide rises and life can become very confusing. There is something about we mere mortals that drives us on to find a name for our suffering. Usually, we know something is wrong long before we get a label from a doctor. It often involves seeing many physicians and hearing their guesses as to what we have wrong with us. Each of them cannot know everything bu...
Source: Life with Chronic Pain - September 2, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: Emotional Health Pain treatment Uncategorized joint pain autoimmune disease chronic pain management rheumatoid disease Sue Falkner Source Type: blogs
The Elevator Pitch - Your 60 Second CommercialEmail this article to a colleague.
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Trade shows, conferences, networking events…these are all prime opportunities to grease the opportunity wheel. Say you’ve been eyeballing a certain hospital or company, maybe you even submitted a resume already, but you’re at an event and suddenly an executive is standing right in front of you. Here’s your chance to talk yourself up and shine, but you might only have their attention for a minute.
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Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - September 2, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: EJ Fechenda Tags: Industry News XYZ Hospital Workforce management Source Type: blogs
Long time, no seeEmail this article to a colleague.
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Here are a few of the tough questions I have faced in the last few days:
What do you do when you walk in an exam room and a patient hands you a newly removed body part? And then another, from a different part of the body?What do you do when you run out of pretzels and you're running an hour late, and your coffee gave out several hours ago when you stopped drinking it because if you kept drinking it you'd never sleep and you hardly sleep as it is? And your next patient is on 24 medications?With what do you follow when you're trying to establish that mythical rapport with a new patient when you ask, "Where are you from?" and...
Source: Medical Marginalia - September 1, 2011 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Tags: primary care Practice management humor Source Type: blogs
DBT Self-HelpEmail this article to a colleague.
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URL: http://www.dbtselfhelp.com/This website is a service for people who are seeking information about DBT (Dialectal Behavior Therapy).
This site was written primarily by PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN THROUGH DBT, not DBT professionals. For this reason, consider the source of any given document. We cannot give advice, but we can talk about our experiences on our DBT journey. In this regard, I hope we can help one another.
For: Anyone, ConsumersTopics: Behaviour Management, Clinical Psychology, Emotional Health, General Psychology, Mental Health, Mental Health PromotionFeatures: Collaborative News, Information, Links, Research, e-l...
Source: PsychSplash - September 1, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Psych Central Resource Editor Tags: Anyone Behaviour management Clinical Psychology Collaborative News Consumers Emotional Health Features For General Psychology Information Links Mental Health Mental Health Promotion Research Topics e-learning Source Type: blogs
Conference overload, meet conference overlapEmail this article to a colleague.
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Normally this time of year, I’m making plans to attend the many fall conferences in health IT and related industries. This year, my decisions are harder. You see, it seems like everyone decided to schedule their events during the last week of October:
AMIA 2011, Oct. 23-26, Washington
MGMA Annual Conference, Oct. 23-26, Las Vegas
TEDMED 2011 Oct. 25-28, San Diego
CHIME11 Fall CIO Forum, Oct. 26-28, Austin, Texas
Just for kicks, I’m scheduled to participate in the Institute for Health Technology Transformation’s Health IT Summit, Nov. 2-3 in Beverly Hills, Calif.
All are worthwhile, and all will be great p...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - September 1, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: health IT Healthcare IT media medical informatics mobile practice management AMIA CHIME Institute for Health Technology Transformation MGMA TEDMED Source Type: blogs
One doctor prescribed more than a million hydrocodone tabletsEmail this article to a colleague.
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A California diet center doctor known by patients as “Candy Man” was sentenced to four years in federal prison for dispensing what authorities said were massive amounts of powerful painkillers in exchange for cash.
Records revealed that he ordered more than a million hydrocodone tablets in 2008, more than any other doctor in the nation.
Prosecutors estimated that he made nearly $700,000 that year from selling controlled substances. However, authorities said they couldn’t account for 75% of the pills purchased over a 13-month period because he didn’t keep records of the transactions.
In the meantime, the NYTimes ...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - September 1, 2011 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: Pain management Source Type: blogs
Can This Simple Diet Make Your Diabetes Better ?Email this article to a colleague.
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Treating Diabetes type 2 is not easy, but we have to be aggressive because the complications are devastating: from heart disease to renal failure. First, we have to examine where diabetes comes from. Is it from our bad genes, or maybe pollution? Or maybe it’s something we are supposed to live with. People think of diabetes as an unwelcome family member. Something they never wanted, but they can’t get rid of and have to learn to live with.
Type 2 Diabetes is a disease when your body cannot:
React properly to the sugar lowering hormone insulin. It happens when you have too much sugar in your body. You try to pus...
Source: Doctor Kalitenko antiaging blog - August 31, 2011 Category: Physicians With Health Advice Authors: skalitenko Tags: Diabetes Did You Know? Diet and Nutrition Discussion General Health Problems and Solutions Weight management Natural Diet Source Type: blogs
Why Are Millennials Vital to Health Care?Email this article to a colleague.
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Before we dive in, it is important to ensure we understand some of the characteristics of the Millennial Generation. The timing of this generation is generally those born between 1978 and 2000 (some say those born after 1980). Some of the characteristics of this generation include:*
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Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - August 30, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Jon Mertz Tags: AHIMA cellular telephone energy HIMSS Industry News Jon Mertz RBMA SIIM USA TODAY Policy and Legislation Workforce management Source Type: blogs
Internships In Support of Career AdvancementEmail this article to a colleague.
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HIMSS Career Services offers a variety of supporting tools in support of our member’s growth in the health IT profession. One of these is our new offering called Health IT Internships on our Career Services website. Health IT internships offer a chance to learn and to discover different elements that may be of interest and may also be a deciding factor on whether you would be satisfied in pursuing a future in health IT.
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Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - August 29, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Helen Figge Tags: Career Services Helen Figge Industry News Workforce management Source Type: blogs
Pharma Reps, Friends or Foes?Email this article to a colleague.
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From a practice management perspective, I find my visits with the reps very valuable. Besides the obvious, which is they bring info about their product, here are my 5 reasons why I think pharma reps are valuable to a practice.
Many reps have a pulse on the market, so to speak. I always ask the Prevnar guy, how’s business going? If he tells me sales have dropped in his area, I know not too many newborns have been born lately. If he tells me that the practice down the street isn’t busy, and either are we, I know it isn’t just us.
Reps can be great recruiters… we found our last employee thanks to one of the reps...
Source: Pediatric Inc - August 28, 2011 Category: Pediatricians Authors: Brandon Tags: Practice management Time management Business Merck Merck & Co. Pfizer Pharmaceutical industry Wyeth Source Type: blogs
Cognitive Behavior Therapy Self-Help ResourcesEmail this article to a colleague.
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URL: http://www.get.gg/Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) has been proven to help mental health problems. This website offers CBT self-help information, resources and tools, including therapy worksheets.
For: Anyone, Clinicians, ConsumersTopics: Academia, Behaviour Management, Cognitive, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Common Factors, Counselling, Depression, Eating Disorders, Emotional Health, General Psychology, Life, Mental Health, Mental Health Promotion, Personality, Personality disorders, Psychology and Technology, Psychology and the Media, Self-helpFeatures: Articles, Assessment Instruments, Clinical Tools, File Sharing,...
Source: PsychSplash - August 27, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Psych Central Resource Editor Tags: Academia Anyone Articles Assessment Instruments Behaviour management Clinical Tools Clinicians Cognitive Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Common Factors Consumers Counselling Depression Eating Disorders Editor's Pick Emotional Hea Source Type: blogs
Will Hired Executives Let "Healing Prevail Over Profit?" - Questions from Public and Catholic Non-Profit Health SystemsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Hospital - noun, 1. a charitable institution for the needy, aged, infirm or young 2. an institution where the sick or injured are given medical or surgical care, Merriam-Webster - noun. 1. an institution providing medical and surgical treatment and nursing care for sick or injured people, Oxford DictionaryTwo recent NY Times articles raise concerns that changes in leadership may cause hospitals to stray from their original purpose. Cook County Health and Hospitals SystemThe first NY Times article discu...
Source: Health Care Renewal - August 26, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: hospitals Cook County mission-hostile management out-sourcing SSM Health Care hospital systems Source Type: blogs
Multiple Sclerosis, Bladder Incontinence and BotoxEmail this article to a colleague.
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The FDA has afforded us with an opportunity to open the always comfortable conversation of bladderincontinence; how very lovely of them. In all seriousness, the news released this week that the regulatory agency has approved the use of Botox for use of incontinence for people with MS (as well as for those spinal cord injuries and other neurologic conditions) may be just the news that many of our community would like to read about and discuss.
For many in the MS world, bladder leakage due to urgency/frequency is oft caused by an over-active (or sometimes, spastic) detrusor muscle around the bladder. When this muscle tighten...
Source: Life with MS - August 26, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: MS lifestyle MS management MS therapy MS treatment Multiple Sclerosis Uncategorized bladder Botox multiple scelrosis Source Type: blogs
Pale ReflectionsEmail this article to a colleague.
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URL: http://www.pale-reflections.com/Pale Reflections is a complete support network for people affected by anorexia nervosa, bulimia, binge-eating disorder, compulsive overeating, and all eating disorders. We offer information and a caring environment for eating disorder sufferers, their friends and family, and therapists & professionals.
For: Anyone, Clinicians, Consumers, ConsumersTopics: Academia, Behaviour Management, Cognitive, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Common Factors, Counselling, Depression, Eating Disorders, Emotional Health, General Psychology, Life, Mental Health, Mental Health Promotion, Personality, Per...
Source: PsychSplash - August 26, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Psych Central Resource Editor Tags: Abnormal Addiction Articles Behaviour management Clinical Tools Consumers Eating Disorders Emotional Health Features For Information Life Lifestyle Links Peer Recommendation Physical Health Topics Source Type: blogs
Where are the Champions?Email this article to a colleague.
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Employers, I need to hear from you! I interact with a number of job seekers, many of whom are new to healthcare, and I hear the same thing over and over again: “I earned a degree [or certificate], but no one wants to hire me because I don’t have healthcare experience.”
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Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - August 26, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: EJ Fechenda Tags: Editorial & Commentary Workforce management Source Type: blogs
Welcome to the Human ConditionEmail this article to a colleague.
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Sometimes life comes at us with such force, surprise and ruthlessness, it stuns us. I don’t have any more answers than you do but I do have it whacking me in the face or elsewhere, every day of my life. I know if you’re reading this, you do, also.
This week has been a good example of that as so much is going on in our little world as well as the impending danger for millions of Americans facing a hurricane in the east. Let me use yesterday as an example. Jim, my dear man, who had just returned from a trip to California on family business had missed his flight because the hotel did not give him the wake-up call...
Source: Life with Chronic Pain - August 25, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: Chronic pain Chronic pain community Chronic pain lifestyle Pain treatment happiness natural disaster daily pain management Fall family pain and travel Source Type: blogs
Women for SobrietyEmail this article to a colleague.
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URL: http://womenforsobriety.org/beta2/Women for Sobriety (WFS) is an organization whose purpose is to help all women find their individual path to recovery through discovery of self, gained by sharing experiences, hopes and encouragement with other women in similar circumstances. We are an abstinence-based self-help program for women facing issues of alcohol or drug addiction. Our “New Life” Program acknowledges the very special needs women have in recovery – the need to nurture feelings of self-value and self-worth and the desire to discard feelings of guilt, shame, and humiliation.
For: ConsumersTopics: Abnormal, ...
Source: PsychSplash - August 25, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Psych Central Resource Editor Tags: Abnormal Addiction Advertising Anxiety Articles Behaviour management Chat Rooms Clinical Psychology Conferences Consumers Features For Forums General Psychology Information Lifestyle Self-harm and suicide Substance Abuse Source Type: blogs
Motivational Mantra: Christina Hendricks On Finding Time To Give BackEmail this article to a colleague.
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Stay organized, and when you’re dong things you love, you’ll find the time.
—Christina Hendricks, as told to Self on how she finds time to work with Make-A-Wish Foundation
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Source: Healthbolt - August 24, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Briana Rognlin Tags: FEEL inspiration celebrities Christina Hendricks motivational quotes time-management Source Type: blogs
Are You Prepared for a Natural Disaster?Email this article to a colleague.
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Yesterday's earthquake that shook the northeastern part of the U.S. was quite unexpected and unsettling, to say the least. While Californians may be used to tremors, those of us in the northeast initially didn't realize what was happening. Many offices...(read more)
Source: ADVANCE Discourse: Lab - August 24, 2011 Category: Pathologists Authors: Lynn Tags: Current Events Practice/Business management Safety Source Type: blogs
Hospital Marketing: Are you ready for the patient experience?Email this article to a colleague.
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Social media in healthcare is evolving and finding its way into operational and clinical tools and this has been where much of my focus has been lately. However, I do want to check-in with where healthcare social media got it's start and a recent survey of hospital marketers will help us with this.
Some interesting survey results were released not long ago and I want to share the link to the report and highlight a couple of things. By 2013, hospital marketers predict:
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Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - August 24, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Christina Thielst Tags: Industry News self-management Social media Hospitals & IDNs Electronic Health Records Mobile/Wireless Quality and Safety Source Type: blogs
The Core Cities Health Network Report: New Horizons and New ChallengesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Title: The Core Cities Health Network Report: New Horizons and New Challenges
The Skinny: Report from the Core Cities Health Network that identifies that understanding the commissioning task for securing healthcare for large city/urban areas will be essential for established (and yet to be established) GP commissioning consortia and new statutory Health and Wellbeing Partnership Boards. Building effective partnerships across agencies ensures that local health care strategies for city populations must be informed a...
Source: Fade Library - August 23, 2011 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: western4uk Tags: Ooops Missed Category! Annual Reports Collaboration Commissioning Coordination Cost control Costs Financial management Grey Literature Health organisations Health service providers Hospital costs Interagency collaboration Local A Source Type: blogs
The five rights of staffing: Maximizing the clinical and financial benefits of an acuity systemEmail this article to a colleague.
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Hospitals and health systems often purchase acuity systems as a valuable tool to allocate nursing resources based on patient care needs. However, these organizations don’t always use their acuity systems to their full capability. In many cases, at least one of what we call “the five rights of staffing” is absent.
According to “the five rights of staffing,” an acuity system should give hospitals:
1) the right number of staff
2) with the right skills
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Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - August 23, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Nancy Barton, MSN, RN, and Heather Wood, MBA, RN Tags: finance Gainesville Georgia Industry News Northeast Georgia Medical Center Hospitals & IDNs Financial/Revenue Cycle management Workforce management Source Type: blogs
How-to Guide Improving Transitions from the Hospital to the Clinical Office Practice to Reduce Avoidable RehospitalizationsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Title: How-to Guide Improving Transitions from the Hospital to the Clinical Office Practice to Reduce Avoidable Rehospitalizations
The Skinny: Guide from Institute for Health Improvement on avoiding avoidable rehospitalisations as a result of poor co-ordination of care settings. Avoiding this is a key step toward achieving broader delivery system transformation. Based on the healthcare system of the USA this guide is of use to those looking at primary care and co...
Source: Fade Library - August 23, 2011 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: western4uk Tags: Ooops Missed Category! Clinical Governance Collaboration Coordination Cost control Financial management Grey Literature Health Risk Assessment Health service providers Information exchange Information transfer Interagency collaborati Source Type: blogs
How-to Guide: Improving Transitions from the Hospital to Home Health Care to Reduce Avoidable RehospitalizationsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Title: How-to Guide: Improving Transitions from the Hospital to Home Health Care to Reduce Avoidable Rehospitalizations
The Skinny: Guide from Institute for Health Improvement on avoiding avoidable rehospitalisations as a result of poor co-ordination of care settings. Avoiding this is a key step toward achieving broader delivery system transformation. Based on the healthcare system of the USA this guide is of use to those looking to aviod rehospitalisation on return to the c...
Source: Fade Library - August 23, 2011 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: western4uk Tags: Ooops Missed Category! Clinical Governance Communication Cost control Costs finance Financial management Grey Literature Health communication Health organisations Health Outcomes Health Risk Assessment Health service finance Heal Source Type: blogs
How-to Guide: Improving Transitions from the Hospital to a Skilled Nursing Facility to Reduce Avoidable RehospitalizationsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Title: How-to Guide: Improving Transitions from the Hospital to a Skilled Nursing Facility to Reduce Avoidable Rehospitalizations
The Skinny: Guide from Institute for Health Improvement on avoiding avoidable rehospitalisations as a result of poor co-ordination of care settings. Avoiding this is a key step toward achieving broader delivery system transformation. Based on the healthcare system of the USA this guide is of use to those looking to aviod rehospitalisati...
Source: Fade Library - August 23, 2011 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: western4uk Tags: Ooops Missed Category! Care Homes Cost control Financial management Grey Literature Health Outcomes Nursing Homes Patient outcomes Patient Safety Quality Quality Assurance Quality control Quality Improvement Quality management Source Type: blogs
MS Clogs My FunnelEmail this article to a colleague.
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I guess I think both in words and in pictures. As a writer, it’s kind of required that I use words but, in my mind, I oft see what multiple sclerosis is doing to me in misty cartoons and ghostly graphics.
I envision ‘brain floss’ to clear away the annoying plaques along my axons the way minty, flat-glide dental tape clears bits of barbeque from between my teeth. I could almost see the poison of Novantrone zapping new immune cells as they emerged from my bone marrow before they could make their way to a morning meal of my myelin. Lharmeet’s Sign looked like Igor flipping those big, nasty switches in Dr Frankenstein...
Source: Life with MS - August 22, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: MS MS blog MS lifestyle MS management Multiple Sclerosis health brain cognitive ability with ms MS and Your Feelings multiple scelrosis multiple scelrosis opinion Source Type: blogs
Self management – a very vexing definitionEmail this article to a colleague.
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Self management is one of those terms that is used to describe the aim of cognitive behavioural programmes for chronic pain. It’s even in my description of this blog! At the same time, it’s difficult to arrive at a definition of self management that “everyone” agrees upon.
Self management can mean helping people to be “actively involved in their health care and to provide a variety of creative and individualized strategies to deal with their health problem in their daily life and ultimately to live as normally as possible despite their symptoms” (Zuffery & Schulz, 2009) – but ...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - August 22, 2011 Category: Occupational Therapists Authors: adiemusfree Tags: Chronic pain Coping Skills Coping strategies Pain conditions Resilience/Health acceptance biopsychosocial Cognitive Behavioural Therapy healthcare pain management self management treatment Source Type: blogs
Time to thinkEmail this article to a colleague.
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i’m working on chapter 6 of our book and have decided to include a section called “time to think.” the end of a marketing cycle is assessment, and that step feeds right back into the next cycle’s first step, project description. my mind has run through the literature on assessment and i’ve been hoping to see quotes that say things like, “part of assessment is to sit there and think about what you’ve accomplished,” or “reflect, you’ve earned it,” or “celebrate your completion of this process.” i’m including a section about this in my book b...
Source: Organization Monkey - August 22, 2011 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Marie Kennedy Tags: management marketing organization tips writing Source Type: blogs
The Practice of Medicine: from Marcus Welby to ???Email this article to a colleague.
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by Jaan Sidorov MD, MHSA, FACP and Vince Kuraitis JD, MBA
Physicians face great uncertainty. According to a survey conducted by The Physicians Foundation, the great majority of physicians (89%) believe the traditional model of independent private practice is either “on shaky ground” or “is a dinosaur soon to go extinct.”
In the face of this uncertainty, many physicians are jumping to a conclusion that “I have to sell my practice to the hospital.” In this post of our series on The 100 Year Shift, we will examine physician practice. We’ll show that the economic and clinical environment...
Source: e-CareManagement - August 22, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Care Providers & Care Coordination Collaborative Care management Networks 100 Year Shift hospital payers physician physician alignment physician group primary care newtag Source Type: blogs
Member Advancement at HIMSS - What is it? What does it mean?Email this article to a colleague.
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HIMSS has a very strong foundation and history of educating its membership on the many healthcare industry topics we have seen past, present and in the future health ideals in discussion today. HIMSS places a strong emphasis on professional development for our members with well over 35,000 individual members alone of which more than two thirds work in healthcare provider, not for profit or government organizational spaces. HIMSS very much has the pulse of the heath industry at its fingertips.
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Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - August 22, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Helen Figge Tags: Industry News Workforce management Source Type: blogs
Does your practice need a business manager?Email this article to a colleague.
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When we first opened our practice, we knew we needed to hire an office manager to handle paying the bills, managing the staff’s time of and buying all the office supplies. But we didn’t anticipate that we’d need a business manager.
Soon after we opened, it was apparent that the practice needed a business manager – not an office manager – but a business manager.
Medical practices are relatively complex businesses. And they generate a lot of cash when you compare them to other small businesses. Thus, a practice should have a “qualified” business manager that manages the practice for physicians in order to run t...
Source: Pediatric Inc - August 22, 2011 Category: Pediatricians Authors: Brandon Tags: Leadership Practice management The Business of Medicine Business manager Derek Jeter Office management Small business Source Type: blogs
Your Time Is Priceless: Do You Treat it That Way?Email this article to a colleague.
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Time is one of the few things you can’t buy.
Of course, you can purchase “time-saving” gadgets and gismos. You can pay a maid to clean your house, or a personal assistant to answer your emails. But you’ll never have more than twenty-four hours in a day.
Time is priceless. It’s also constant: you don’t have to do anything to make an hour go by. You’ll have experienced time flying past (at a great party) or crawling (at 4pm on Friday) – but you know that, regardless of how it feels, the minutes tick by at the same objective speed.
Once a day has gone past, you’ll never get it back.
In many ways, time is th...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - August 22, 2011 Category: Life Coaches Authors: Ali Luke Tags: self improvement time management Source Type: blogs
Technology Time Management and ADHDEmail this article to a colleague.
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What concerns me is what technology may be doing to our brain. Read Gary Small’s book, iBrain, and you will have to agree that our brain is indeed evolving. Two brains that start off the same at birth can be drastically different at two years of age if one has been deprived of play, talk, touch, love, proper food and so on. That’s been known for a long time. What is more surprising is that the adult brain remains malleable – ‘neuroplasticity’ is the term used – as we grow older, and it continues to rewire itself throughout life. That’s good news for old folks like me because it mea...
Source: Life With ADHD - August 21, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: ADHD Dad Tags: ADHD Research management Technology Time Source Type: blogs
The ‘Mental Exacerbation’Email this article to a colleague.
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I promise I’ll read this post through an extra time or two — and have Rose comb it as well — as I’m experiencing something very new to me and my MS. I’m calling it a “mental exacerbation.”
I have met a few people whose executive function, memory, and even general cognition have taken a direct hit from our old nemesis: multiple sclerosis. I can remember a few conversations in these pages having to do with increased difficulty with multitasking and attention, and I’ve lived with some of those issues for many years now. What I am now experiencing is beginning to frighten me quite a bit, but, as...
Source: Life with MS - August 19, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: MS MS and fatigue MS blog MS management MS money matters MS stress Multiple Sclerosis mobility ms and employment cognitive ability with ms cognitive issues fear MS in the workplace multiple scelrosis multiple scelrosis blog w Source Type: blogs
Hospital Lab Outreach Programs Produce Strong RevenuesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Hospital laboratory outreach programs produce strong growth in net revenue and contribution margin, according to Chi Solutions Inc.’s “Tenth Annual National Laboratory Outreach Survey Report,” released in July. “In our annual survey of hospital and health...(read more)
Source: ADVANCE Discourse: Lab - August 19, 2011 Category: Pathologists Authors: Jill Hoffman Tags: Practice/Business management Source Type: blogs
