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‘Meaningful Use’ IT Provision Deemed a Game-Changer
ISSUE: AUGUST, 2010 Hospitals and health care professionals will have far greater flexibility in meeting the “meaningful use” requirements for certified electronic health record (EHR) technology under a final rule issued last month by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
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New System Improves Dosing of Computed Tomography
ISSUE: JULY, 2010 New technology could help clinicians better assess how much radiation their patients are exposed to during imaging tests in the hospital, while improving the likelihood that patients will not receive unnecessarily high doses.
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Studies Point to Value of Electronic Technologies To Reduce Errors
ISSUE: JULY, 2010
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Chronic Pain Based on Widespread Gene Expression Changes
ISSUE: JULY, 2010 Chronic pain involves reprogramming more than 2,000 genes within several classes of cells making up the peripheral nervous system, according to an international team of researchers. The team used a new technique to map these changes in gene expression in an animal model.
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Expert: In Most Cases, Electronic Health Records Result in Better Care
ISSUE: MARCH, 2010 Pain Medicine News recently spoke with Donald E. Detmer, MD, MA, past president and chief executive officer of the American Medical Informatics Association, on the state of electronic health record systems in health care today.
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NIH Launches Study Of Experimental Pain Drug
ISSUE: JANUARY, 2010 After months of waiting, government researchers have begun a study in patients with terminal cancer of a drug that could revolutionize the treatment of severe chronic pain.
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“Talking Pain” Online, Experts Look To Educate Patients, Peers
ISSUE: NOVEMBER, 2009 For the millions of Americans suffering from chronic pain, support and cutting-edge information may now be just a few keystrokes away.
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BIS Monitor Plugs Into Pain
ISSUE: SEPTEMBER, 2009 The bispectral index monitor may find a home in the intensive care unit as a gauge of pain in patients under heavy sedation.
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