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Maryland’s Health Information Exchange Helps Take the Blinders off Emergency Care

February 21st, 2012
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The headline on a Washington Post story last week was enough to give almost any healthcare consumer a moment’s pause: “Maryland Hospitals to Share Patient Data.” To which a patient might respond, “Wait, You Mean Hospitals Don’t Share Data Now?” We see it in the Emergency Department all the time. Patients come in who have […]

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Posted in Future of Healthcare

Sometimes the Best Emergency Medicine is No Medicine at All

February 3rd, 2012
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I was recently reminded by a patient experience that the best medicine sometimes is no medicine at all. I cared for a young woman who had been seen the last few nights complaining of shortness of breath. When it was obvious that she had normal breath sounds, no wheezing and normal oxygen level I started […]

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Posted in Quality Efficiency Utilization