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Doctors Love Alerts Until They Don’t

Healthcare IT Today

Regulations now require primary care doctors be notified if their patients have an ED visit or are admitted to a hospital. It’s amazing to think that PCPs are being notified about their patients so that they can ensure quality continuity of care. It’s basically HIPAA secure email for doctors.

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A Family’s Guide to the ICU, Part 3: Being An Advocate

Society for Participatory Medicine

What do you think is the right course of action? The nurse last night was worried about metric X and had proactively given her medication Y before she has to {do PT, insert a line, etc.}. On occasion, it’s possible to request a meeting with the care team. What are the important decisions the team or we will likely face?

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150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

Advocate Health Care (Downers Grove, Ill.). Advocate Health Care, one of Chicagoland’s largest employers, has more than 35,000 associates, including 11,000 nurses and nearly 6,300 affiliated physicians. Anna Jaques Hospital is a 123-bed independent, nonprofit community hospital based in Massachusetts.