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Interactive Patient Care – The Missing Link in Consumer Directed Healthcare

While consumer directed healthcare (CDH) is receiving wide-spread attention from the media, the scope is often on electronic medical record adoption or health savings accounts. While these are important developments in improving care and lowering costs, they do little...

Enhancing Surgical Precision and Patient Safety Through Advancements in Electrosurgery

More than 17.5 million electrosurgical procedures are performed annually in the United States, in a variety of surgical fields. Yet, electrosurgical methods have changed little in the last 80 years. They have remained relatively crude, essentially relying on high-temperature...

A Workflow Solution for Electronic Health Records to Improve Healthcare Delivery in Rural India

Use of Information Technology in Healthcare,especially Electronic Health Records (EHRs),can potentially improve healthcare. However,worldwide the usage of EHRs is limited and studies in developed countries like US have shown that electronic records systems have been slow to become part...

Health Spending Projections through 2015: Changes on the horizon

“Unsustainable” is the word which best describes the healthcare system today. Frost & Sullivan is uncertain as to how far the healthcare industry will accede, but “rising costs”, “changing demographics” and “quality” are the three interlocking challenges nobody can...

The Healthcare Conundrum and challenges

One of the fundamental challenges the Global healthcare Industry faces is in reducing costs and providing a better baseline quality of care for most of the World’s population. While billions continue to be spent in the developed world on...

Is circulatory migration of nurses becoming a reality?

International recruitment impacts every healthcare facility in the United States even if it has never recruited a foreign nurse.  Foreign trained nurses comprise roughly 15% of the newly licensed nurses in the United States, and that number is even...

International Trends and Evolving Dimensions in Remote Healthcare

In this rapidly changing world, information communication is essential. Accessibility of information has always been challenging and it becomes much more complex when it comes to health information. We live in an era of electronic communication that makes tasks...

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