by Mary Pat Whaley | May 12, 2009 | Definitions
Voice recognition (VR), sometimes called speech recognition (SR), is a technology that translates the spoken word into the written/electronic word. In healthcare it is most commonly used for physician notes in the medical record. The physician dictates the...
by Mary Pat Whaley | May 12, 2009 | Definitions
A short film demonstrating the “surprising limits of perception, attention, and awareness.” Viewers are instructed to count bounces or baskets made by one team, and in doing so, completely miss that a person in a gorilla suit walks among the players! ...
by Mary Pat Whaley | May 12, 2009 | Definitions
UPDATE: 2/11/2010 Clarification on H&P Requirement Prior To ASC Procedure (Angela Mason-Elbert of CMS: “Each patient that is seen in an ASC must have a comprehensive medical history and physical assessment (H&P) not more than 30 days before the date of...
by Mary Pat Whaley | May 5, 2009 | Definitions
The WHO (World Health Organization) Level 6 requirement for a pandemic requires serious outbreaks in communities in two or more different WHO regions. According to the WHO, a pandemic can start when three conditions have been met: Emergence of a disease new to a...
by Mary Pat Whaley | May 3, 2009 | Day-to-Day Operations, Headlines
The HHS and the CDC have developed lots of widgets that you can place on your practice website to give your patients the latest information on the swine flu. You can get a widget for your practice website from HHS here or from CDC here. These sites also provide...
