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Urgent care centers, or UCCs, offer medical services for patients seeking treatment for non-emergency symptoms and injuries. After hours walk-in clinics, minute clinics, quick care clinics, minor emergency centers, and minor care clinics are less common terms for UCCs. Same with the slang term, “docs in a box.” UCCs are recommended for those in need of an immediate appo...

It’s not surprising the healthcare industry requires a lot of specialized equipment. Many of the tasks performed, like surgery, are unique. That’s why medical computers are used instead of off-the-shelf brands. Features like medical grade and fanless ensure they can handle routine demands in medical clinics and hospitals. Medical carts are another example of specializ...

Fall prevention programs in hospitals aim to prevent patient trauma from falling. The following are some programs ranging from assessment to technology like artificial intelligence. Why Is Fall Prevention Important in Hospitals? Patient falls in hospitals harm both the person and the medical facility. In one US study, it was shown that approximately 700,000 to 1,000,000...

A chatbot, which mimics help desks and similar aids, sounds more human today thanks to artificial intelligence (AI). Let’s look at the advantages and disadvantages of chatbot for healthcare. Chatbots have been around since the Sixties. Let’s take a brief look at their history before shifting to chatbots in healthcare, their advantages and the disadvantages. What is a...

Drug diversion is the illegal transfer, diversion, or abuse of a controlled substance(s) from the recipient for whom it was prescribed to another person for an illicit use. Examples include: • Selling prescription drugs meant for a patient but instead to fill the prescriber’s pocket. • Doctor shopping or obtaining various prescriptions from multiple doctors. • Illegal I...

A virtual patient sitter allows hospital personnel to watch multiple at-risk patients simultaneously. Here’s how it works, and four major advantages over more traditional, flesh-and-blood sitters. Virtual Patient Sitter – What Is It? Patient sitters are a relatively unknown yet important part of healthcare, watching at-risk patients so staff members like nurses to focus...

A personal health record is a file containing healthcare-related information created and maintained by the patient. Also known as PHR, many started as paper files and documents. Time moves on and so does technology. Patients now use apps, websites, and other electronics to note down their doctor visits, medications, and even wills. This is one of the reasons a PHR is a...

A hospital emergency code is a special alert used by hospital staff. It is triggered primarily to indicate an urgent matter or some emergency matter. The codes are not blatantly announced (example: “heart attack”, “bomb threat”, “missing baby”, etc.) This is to prevent panic or distress among patients and visitors. Instead they’re given a color or some other unassuming...

A crash cart is a medical cart. This is a mobile storage unit primarily used to quickly transport medical devices and emergency medication to patients “crashing”, i.e., needing emergency life support asap. The most well-known example of a crash is a Code Blue. A crash cart can be found: In the emergency departments of hospitals. Walk-in clinics like urgent care center...

We’ve all seen it. Late night visitors are strolling through a hospital’s halls to see loved ones or communicate some form of urgent situation or emergency on the premises. They quickly alert medical personnel about: What is the emergency? What is expected at the scene? Who is needed to deal with the situation? The answer to these questions and more are hospital emerge...

“Doctor” may soon be joining the weekly grocery list. This is through retail health clinics. These alternatives to the traditional doctor’s office may be a new branch in healthcare's future with patients. What is Retail Healthcare? Retail healthcare is a form of healthcare service. As the name implies, they are typically located within retail stores though they are al...

Healthcare IT (HIT), with its medical computers and networks, have helped streamline processes from the stats of the patient coming into the ER to figuring out if there are enough supplies for the nurses in ICU for the day. We cover five medical software used in HIT today, from what their purpose is to the best hardware to run them. What Does Medical Software Do? First...

Medical carts are an important tool in today’s healthcare. They make access to important drugs and vital equipment within easy reach of hospital staff. We go into detail about them today, from what they do, the different kinds, and how they’re essential in the care of patients. What Are Medical Carts? Medical carts are, simply, mobile storage units. They play a vital ro...

Dentists are always on the lookout to maximize their patient’s care, comfort, and treatment. They look for ways to improve his or her diagnosis to less time spent in the dental chair. Technology is increasingly looking to be the solution. Six of these “digital dentistry technologies” are covered today along with the future of the field. What is Digital Dentistry? D...

Ready to go to the local mall for your physical? Or see your pharmacist about your watch app’s alerts about your cholesterol level? These are a couple of potential scenarios greeting the healthcare industry this year. Learn about them and more, as well as the possible solutions to these challenges. Healthcare to Offer More Individual Patient Care “Patients are all al...

Information overload affects every business sector out there. Take a look at the life science industry, for example. Businesses in biotechnology have to figure out the impact of genetically modified organisms (GMO) on an ecosystem to the effectiveness of oil-eating microbes on an oil spill. Medical device manufacturers weigh the risks of their devices on patients, while ...

Why was database titan Oracle interested in EMR giant Cerner? The question was on every financial analyst’s mind last year. Interest for answers intensified when Oracle paid $28.3 billion for Cerner shortly afterwards. This time, analysts may finally have an answer. Slowing the Burnout Voice recognition software was mentioned multiple times in Oracle’s press release. He...

What, exactly, is RAS? Are they robotic surgeons with tentacles for arms that shapeshift into lethal-looking scalpels and needles? Or microbe-sized robots that infect human cells to transform them per programming from a secret government institution? The reality is much less fantastical than the descriptions above. Here are five misconceptions about surgical robots and...

Radiation exposure is an everyday fact of life in hospitals. At the same time, it puts staff and patients at risk of real health problems down the road. Hospitals, to combat this, need to limit radiation exposure for patients and staff. This can be done by bolstering PPE usage, improving education, and embracing new technology. In this guide, hospital staff will learn:...

Asthma, arthritis, diabetes, and other chronic diseases such as heart disease affect about half of all adults in the US. Worldwise, chronic diseases account for more than 90 percent of the morbidity and mortality rates among First-World nations. And it gets worse. Did you know: Chronic diseases, per the CDC, are a leading cause of death and disability in the US. The ...

Additive manufacturing, more popularly known as 3D printing, has advanced enough to create toys, figurines, and parts for more complex machines. The technology has been hailed as the next revolution in the healthcare industry. Why, then, hasn't it become widespread in clinics and hospitals like medical computers? Here are three challenges facing the widespread adoption o...

Clinicians are burning out. In a recent survey by the AMA, 54 percent of urologists felt burned out. They were followed by specialists in: neurology (50 percent) nephrology (49 percent) Endocrinology (46 percent) family medicine (46 percent) radiology (46 percent) The COVID-19 pandemic worsened things, leaving healthcare groups and hospitals short-staffed to deal wi...

Medical workers are highly-skilled, educated professionals. The hospital of the future is the one that respects and preserves their precious time. To create the hospital of the future, modern medical organizations need to invest in the software and solutions of the future. Medical transcription is one such tool. It has already started moving away from manual transcripti...

Roughly 90 percent of the world’s food, fuel, raw material, and manufactured goods are transported by sea. That means anything impacting the maritime industry can quickly ripple throughout the global economy. The COVID-19 pandemic, and the following lockdowns to contain it, did just that. Ports and their life-saving medical clinics and hospitals were forced to turn away...

Clinicians, nurses, specialists, and other healthcare staff deal with medical issues daily. It’s important for them to know exactly what tools are available, capabilities, and any limitations. So it’s easy for them to become confused when medical equipment companies start throwing out words like “medical grade PCs,” “hospital grade computers,” and “healthcare grade machi...

What is Remote patient monitoring? Remote patient monitoring, or RPM, is quite simple: the tracking and monitoring of a patient’s vitals remotely through various devices. Healthcare providers can keep an eye out on their patients’ health outside of clinical settings like hospitals. Bluetooth-enabled glucometers, blood pressure cuffs, and weight scales are examples of th...

Right to Repair (RtR, R2R) is a movement by consumers and repair shops to have Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) make available normally proprietary information of their products, as well as provide any necessary tools and spare parts. This can range from password access to a smartphone’s firmware to the use of diagnostic computers. Product owners can make their rep...

As hospitals have continued to advance their care with technology such as medical computers, EHR records, and more, the goal has always been to create a fully optimized healthcare system, one that seamlessly transitions a patient from step to step in their journey from sick to healthy without a single hiccup. The goal has been, and will continue to be, the creation of a ...

According to healthcare business tech, 25% of surgery and 32% of nursing malpractice cases were caused by a lack of proper communication, the most common culprit of said miscommunication being poor notes and documentation. Unfortunately, no matter how much we automate the note taking process, use of different terminology and unclear notes that are bound to occur due to s...

Cybernet is excited to announce the world’s first fully antimicrobial medical computer. Cybernet’s medical grade computers have always featured a housing with antimicrobial properties baked directly into the resin, and now can offer a fully antimicrobial touch glass as well so the entire device is 100% protected against the formation of bacteria. The antimicrobial tou...

There are thousands of reasons why communication in healthcare is so difficult, from employee/employee communication to doctor/patient communication. Let’s instead try to focus on the solutions. We’ve gathered information on hospital communication, what works and what doesn’t, complete with suggestions about the kind of technology that can transform everyday tech lik...

For years the US Food and Drug Administration has mandated that medical devices comply with 60601 standards for near-patient safety, and while that’s great for patients, it can be a difficult or frustrating road to navigate for medical device manufacturers. 60601-1 ratings are given to devices that pass a screening process for potentially harmful radiation that coul...

Clean room environments in hospitals have very different computing needs than other areas. These could be operating rooms, compounding pharmacies or infectious disease units within the facility. The importance of eliminating the spread of germs and other harmful microbes in these environments can’t be understated. And as such, here are 4 features that every clean room co...

Electronic medical records or EMRs, are the future of medical record-keeping. As of 2015, 87% of hospitals in the United States use some kind of EMR software, and that number is only growing. There are a number of benefits to EMRs: it cuts down on space once needed for bulky paper records, it streamlines bookkeeping, and it can allow physicians and other caregivers to ac...

Safety is always a concern in hospitals and medical facilities, especially when things get busy. A single missed detail, such as a loose cable or frayed wire, can result in disaster… which no healthcare organization can afford. Mindfulness and a keen eye for prevention can stop such problems before they start. Workstations on wheels are an integral part of modern hospit...

The first clean rooms appeared in hospitals over a hundred years ago as a result of a continuous effort to prevent and control infection and disease transmission in operating rooms. Now, many industries have implemented clean rooms, and their designs evolve as technology keeps offering new tools for infection control (and regulatory bodies make requirements more stringen...