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• Health IT pros warn of network vulnerabilities during cyberwar

  
  News — Authority: 128
  Fans of doomsday scenarios, gather round. It may not be hackers that present the greatest threat to EHR databases, but terrorist groups or rogue regimes, a hospital IT director told federal officials last week. Testifying Friday before the federal Health IT Standards Committee, Chad Skidmore, director of network ...
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• Las Vegas Hepatitis Case Takes a Criminal Turn—Possibly at Victims’ Expense

  
  ThePopTort — Authority: 468
  That terrible story about the Las Vegas clinic that reused dirty syringes and vials, potentially exposing some 50,000 Nevadans to Hepatitis C, may be about to take a very unfortunate turn from a civil justice perspective.  Ironically, that’s because criminal charges may soon be filed against the majority owner ...
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• Congressman fights for patient safety

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 160
  A short but fiery speech made on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives has raised the hopes of patient safety advocates across the nation.
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• European consumers concerned about counterfeit medicines

  
  Your Story — Authority: 555
  Five per cent of consumers across five European countries suspect they have received a counterfeit prescription drug whilst
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• Registration in the Palm of Your Hand

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 154
  “When patients were admitted to the new El Camino Hospital in Mountain View for the first time on Monday, November 16, the registration process included something most people associate with sci-fi thrillers — a cutting edge biometric registration system that “reads” patients’ identities by scanning the ...
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• Genzyme’s Friday the 13th

  
  PharmTech Talk — Authority: 121
  Friday the 13th was an unlucky day for Genzyme (Cambridge, MA). On that day, the company and the US Food and Drug Administration alerted healthcare providers that stainless steel fragments, nonlatex rubber, and fiberlike material had been found in products filled at Genzyme’s Allston Landing manufacturing ...
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• Hilarious SNL Opening on Medical Malpractice

  
  ThePopTort — Authority: 468
  It’s not everyday that Saturday Night Live audiences get to see just what we’re talking about! Check out the video at about 2:05 for a little patient safety humor.
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• Patients More Satisfied in Care if Errors are Disclosed

  
  Nursing Show Podcast for RN (Registered Nurse) and Student Nurses — Authority: 121
  Patients do see beyond the error when health practitioners disclose the truth. In the news article from the Boston Globe , results from a conducted survey by Dr. Lenny Lopez of Massachusetts General Hospital from 2,500 patients who had been patients in 16 hospitals in Massachusetts revealed that those who were told ...
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• Swine Flu Vaccine Production – More Craziness from Big Business

  
  ThePopTort — Authority: 468
  The conservative Federalist Society held a little pow-wow yesterday to strategize about “federal preemption” - immunity for corporations that produce unsafe products - which the U.S. Supreme Court rejected earlier this year .  Perhaps unsurprisingly, it didn’t take long for the discussion to go off the ...
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• Dartmouth Atlas and Physician Supply - No Relation to "Tort Reform"

  
  ThePopTort — Authority: 468
  First it was the GAO .  Then the Bureau of Economic Research .  The Cincinnati Enquirer .  The Texas Observer .  What are we talking about?  Clear evidence by any credible benchmark that there is no link between state “tort reform” laws and where doctors decide to practice. So we can’t say we were ...
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• Court Documents Reveal Pfizer was Massaging Data to Increase Neurotonin Sales

  
  ThePopTort — Authority: 468
  Documents obtained in lawsuits by insurers and consumers against the “ world’s biggest drug maker ” Pfizer have given rise to a report to be published today in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), indicating the company “altered or omitted unfavorable study findings to expand its epilepsy drug ...
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• November Drug Safety Update from MHRA/CHM

  
  NPCi blog — Authority: 121
  12 November 2009 The MHRA and CHM have published the November edition of Drug Safety Update (DSU). Highlights include: Orciprenaline (Alupent®) will be withdrawn from the UK market over the coming year, due to its unfavourable risk-benefit profile. A reminder about the reporting ...
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• In the News: Special Veterans Day Edition

  
  ThePopTort — Authority: 468
  Military vets and contractors have filed thirty-two lawsuits from 32 states against the likes of Halliburton and KBR, claiming the companies exposed them “to toxic fumes by burning everything from human remains to tires in massive open air pits.” You may have seen the lead story in today’s New York Times ...
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• Actor James Woods Sues Rhode Island Hospital Over Brother’s Death

  
  ThePopTort — Authority: 468
  Celebrities are often thought to be more or less immune from the everyday challenges of common folk, but as Dennis Quaid , the late Ed McMahon , Dana Carvey, and others have shown, they can be victims of medical malpractice just like anyone else. Now Academy Award-nominated actor, and Rhode Island native, James ...
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• U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley Advocates Patient Safety—Gets Shouted Down on House Floor

  
  ThePopTort — Authority: 468
  If you thought U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson’s “ You lie! ” moment during President Obama’s health care speech to Congress was an aberration, think again.  This past weekend, as Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA) dared to champion the rights of the millions of Americans killed or injured by medical malpractice in this ...
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• U.S. continues to trail other countries in physician IT adoption

  
  News — Authority: 128
  The Commonwealth Funds annual survey of international health policy is out, and, to nobodys surprise, primary-care physicians in the U.S. and Canada continue to trail their counterparts in Europe and the South Pacific in terms of health IT adoption. The survey, published as a Health Affairs web exclusive, finds that ...
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• Huff Post: Americans Suffering Enough from So-called “Tort Reform” and Don’t Need More

  
  ThePopTort — Authority: 468
  One of the more underreported, though no less important aspects of this past weekend’s Congressional  health care debate (which preceded the historic passage of the U.S. House’s health care reform bill)  was related to attempts by some seeking to “ derail ” the bill by arguing it didn’t contain ...
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• Safer EMS From Safer Ambulances – A Look at Side Loaders

  
  Podcast for EMT Paramedics and EMS Students — Authority: 126
  I’ve wondered for a long time about why we still make ambulances in the same basic configuration as the old cadillac hearse style units of the 1960’s and ’70’s? Why not make a side loading ambulance to enable easier loading of the patient from whichever direction is safer for the EMTs and paramedics? McCoy ...
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• Resident Duty-Hour Cuts Said to Impair Surgical Education, Safet...

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 160
  Limiting surgical residents’ work hours has compromised both surgical education and patient safety, according to an analysis concluding that the 80-hour work week in the U.S. isn’t enough.
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• Is Someone at Jefferson Regional Medical Center Lying About EHR ...

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 160
  This curious story appeared about apparent clinician health IT safety concerns at Jefferson Regional Medical Center near Pittsburgh: Switch to electronic records alarms Jefferson Regional physicians By Walter F. Roche Jr. PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Friday, October 30, 2009 read more
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