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It’s all the rage in our country, the electronic sharing of data among healthcare professionals. But IBM announced that Soon Chun Hyang University Hospital, a Korean healthcare institution, will use IBM's smarter computing approach to build the country’s first integrated hospital infrastructure to allow doctors, nurses, clinical laboratories and insurance institutions to share patient data in Seoul, Bucheon, ChunAn and Kumi.
Today Independa and LivHOME, Inc., announced an agreement under which LivHOME, a provider of “professionally led at-home care for seniors,” will use Independa’s CloudCare services to not only remotely monitor them for safety but also offer ways to stay socially engaged with the world, and will be available in late spring. It’s a new movement and it’s called “aging in place.” What it simply means is creating an environment that’s safe enough for seniors and those living with chronic disease to remain at home, not be shuttled off to a nursing home.
To us when we’re in the hospital, it’s a welcome sound, that buzz. It signals the nurse that we need her. But imagine you’re surrounded every day, every hour by endless buzzing, beeping, and hissing. Do you think you’d hear any of it, after awhile?
That’s the disturbing conclusion the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has come to, following a story last year in The Boston Globe that linked this “alarm fatigue” to hundreds of deaths. So the FDA is taking steps to reduce this in hospitals “by intensifying its pre-market review of medical devices that sound alarms and could contribute to the desensitization of nurses.”
If you’re waiting for a heart, you might be pretty annoyed that former Vice President Dick Cheney, at age 71, just got one. But according to Fox News’ Dr. Marc Siegel, he didn’t jump any lines. But as Siegel points out, the heart transplant itself isn’t really the news – it’s the left ventricular assist device (LVAD), or mechanical pump, “also known as a ‘bridge to transplant,’ which has improved to the point where it may sometimes take the place of a transplant itself.”
If you’re as confused as I am about the cases currently in front of the Supreme Court that revolve around the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Mary Massaron Ross may be able to guide you. I talked with her on the phone this week about the several pending cases that involve the new health care act and she cleared a lot of things up.
Massaron Ross, president-elect of the DRI – The Voice of the Defense Bar, is a defense attorney with Plunkett Cooney PC in Detroit and an appellate law expert. DRI – The Voice of the Defense Bar is a 22,000-member organization that represents businesses and corporations in civil litigation.
By Deborah Hirsch , HealthTechZone Contributor
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