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NewsClocking time on emergency patients saves lives
Discharging or admitting emergency patients within four hours of arriving to the hospital has saved 80 lives, according to a study published in the Medical Journal of Australia. Overcrowded emergency Read more...
Hospitals pledge low ER wait times to win patients over
In an effort to gain patients, hospitals are pledging low emergency department (ED) wait times. For example, Arizona's Northwest Medical Center says that emergency patients should not have to wait Read more...
Patients book ER appointments for convenience
Similar to booking an appointment with a primary care physician, patients are now scheduling their emergency room (ER) visits. While hospitals around the country post their ER wait times to Read more...
Trends: ED crowding may be pushing growth of urgent care centers
Over the past few years, emergency department crowding has grown steadily worse, with waits climbing to an average of 3.3 hours as of 2006, according to the CDC. Given these pressures on the ED, Read more...
One system for poor, another for well-heeled
Does it make sense to break up the healthcare system into two tracks, one for patients who have the bucks for care and another for the poor? It does to Mark Moran, the interim chief executive officer Read more...
| Press ReleasesSanta Cruz Emergency Physicians to Join CEP AmericaNew partnership will bring enhanced services to Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz EMERYVILLE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- CEP America and Santa Cruz Emergency Physicians (SCEP) have announced that Read more >> eMix to be Focus of Radiologists’ Talk at RSNAPodium Presentation Will Focus on Physicians’ Experience of Cloud-Based Sharing of Medical Data Sharing SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The benefits of using a cloud-based service to share medical Read more >> El Camino Hospital Posts ED Wait Times OnlineConsistent, transparent monitoring so patients know what to expect MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- El Camino Hospital has launched a service on its website designed to provide patients with Read more >> Southwest Regional Medical Center and Specialists On Call Increase Emergency Patients’ Access to Neurologists in PennsylvaPartnership Delivers Neurologists to Patients’ Bedside Via 24/7/365 Teleneurology Service WAYNESBURG, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Specialists On Call, Inc. (SOC), the nation’s leading provider of clinical Read more >> Frost & Sullivan Applauds the Lodox Statscan Critical Imaging System for Outperforming All Competing ProductsLONDON, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Following a recent analysis of the medical imaging devices market, Frost & Sullivan presented Lodox Systems (Pty) Ltd (Lodox) with the "2010 South African Medical Read more >> |
