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Renovations at Brookwood Heart and Vascular Center
With the addition of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and the GE Innova 3100 imaging system and its flat-panel technology, Brookwood Medical Center now boasts two fully integrated catheter labs.
“Now we can do all coronary procedures, as well as peripheral vascular procedures,” said Tom Wills, RN, BSN, director of Cardiovascular Services.
MARTI WEBB SLAY |
Dr. Sarah Hays, VisionFirst |
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Implantable Contact Lenses for Myopia
“The problem with laser correction is that some people have just pushed the envelope to do too much treatment for the degree of nearsighted, and weakened the cornea,” said Sarah Hays, MD, of VisionFirst. But she offers a new approach for the severely myopic that doesn’t involve operating on the cornea.
JANE EHRHARDT |
Physician-Owned Rural Health Care Facilities and CMS Advisory Opinion 2008-02
Physician-owned hospitals represent a small but rapidly growing sector of the healthcare industry. Proponents argue that physician-owned hospitals take advantage of financial incentives created by physician ownership to generate more efficient operations and higher quality outcomes than traditional hospitals. Detractors argue, however, that these hospitals compete unfairly with traditional hospitals because the physician owners may refer their own patients to the hospital, and because the hospitals tend to focus on the healthiest and best-insured patients.
ROBIN FRANCO |
Dr. Michael Harrington, UAB Department of Family and Community Medicine |
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A Physician Shortage — Reversing the Trend
The decline in the number of primary care physicians in Alabama, as medical school graduates choose sub-specialties over primary care, has reached such critical proportions that the U.S. Bureau of Health Professionals has designated 60 of Alabama’s 67 counties as “Health Professional Shortage Areas.”
ANN DEBELLIS |
Birmingham Ophthalmologists Develop New Retinal Detachment Laser Pevention
Previously anyone at high risk of a retinal detachment could do little but wait and hopefully keep on seeing. But two Birmingham ophthalmologists have now completed a pilot study on a laser procedure that may become the first reliable retinal detachment preventative procedure for high-risk eyes.
JANE EHRHARDT |
CMS Issues Two Advisory Opinions
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) is authorized to issue advisory opinions regarding whether a proposed arrangement violates the Ethics in Patient Referral Act of 1989, 42 U.S.C. § 1395nn, and its corresponding regulations at 40 C.F.R. § 411.350 et seq. (the “Stark Law”). The Stark Law prohibits physician referrals of Medicare or Medicaid patients for designated health services, as defined by the statute, to any entity in which the physician, or an immediate family member, has a financial relationship, unless a regulatory exception applies.
KELLI FLEMING |
Grand Rounds July
Taub Named Chair-elect For AAAS Psychology Section
UAB Hosts First Annual Stroke Gala
Urology Centers Honored by Governor for Black Belt Screenings
Dermatopathologists Join Practice
Robert Centor, Md, Elected To Board Of National Doctors’ Organization
Orthopaedic Surgeon Certified in Orthopaedic Sports Medicine
Bright Awarded Prestigious Certified Commercial Investment Member Designation
Baptist Health System to be Part of National Medicare Project
Advanced Surgeons, P.C. Brings First Endocrine Surgen to Birmingham
UAB Health System Administrators Named Fellows
DCH Employee Assistance Program Director named 2008 Hal Davidson
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Harmonica Strikes Chord with “Harpdog”
The poignant strains of the harmonica make it a natural fit for the blues, evoking emotion that imbues the music with the sense that it is a living entity, birthed through a musician’s magic.
Daniel Marson, JD, PhD, director of the UAB Alzheimer’s Disease Center in the Department of Neurology, has been fascinated with the harmonica since his teenage years, when he heard a blues band feature it.
CARA CLARK |
Eta S. Berner, UAB School of Health Professions |
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Patient Feedback Could Reduce Medical Diagnosis Errors
Research shows that the majority of medical diagnoses are correct. However, diagnostic errors occur more often than patients expect and certainly more than doctors realize. In fact, the rate of diagnostic error can be as high as 15 percent, according to Eta S. Berner, EdD, professor of health administration in the School of Health Professions at UAB.
ANN DEBELLIS |
The Challenge Facing HCIT
Information is like water. Getting enough is essential, but a flood can leave you drowning in data. The volume of information flowing through the average medical practice has already risen to test the limits of traditional paper, fax and dictation methods. Now a tide of aging baby boomers needing healthcare threatens a new deluge.
LAURA FREEMAN |
Reuben Buckareff, Blink MD CEO |
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The Digital Horizon
Three decades into the Information Age, we’ve become accustomed to ever-faster speeds and larger data capacities in smaller hardware. Kilobytes became megabytes, then gigabytes and terabytes, as information technology keeps crossing new thresholds.
In healthcare, information technology and electronic medical records have given medical offices powerful tools to help manage an enormous and growing volume of data.
LAURA FREEMAN |
Will Income Taxes Increase in 2009?
Being in the midst of an election year, we muskkassouft look ahead for the changes that are likely to occur when the executive and/or legislative branches of the federal government shift seats from one party to another. While no one can accurately predict the outcome of the fall election, many pollsters predict a change of party in the White House in 2009.
GERRY KASSOUF |
Strategies for Safeguarding Essential Data
It doesn’t require a Katrina sized hurricane or a Cedar Rapids flood to create a data disaster. Even the most reliable servers have hard disks that eventually wear out. A leaky roof, a closet fire next door, or even a patient sneaking a cigarette under a smoke detector can leave sensitive equipment soaked and out of service.
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