ZDNet Health
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Green shopping bags linked to stomach flu
An entire girl’s soccer team was infected with an outbreak of norovirus. The source: a reusable grocery bag that they ate cookies from.
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A Banner day for health records management
Congratulations to 17 facilities who have achieved the final stage of electronic medical record adoption.
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Meaningful use: ready and willing, but not sure how able
The good news? Hospitals are halfway to EHR system adoption. The bad news? Lack of confidence in the ability to get to Stage 2.
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Dr. Google misdiagnoses one out of four women
Women with health concerns are twice as likely to go online for advice than to ask a doctor, their friends, or even their mothers, especially with embarrassing symptoms.
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WHO says dementia is a ticking time bomb
We need a plan for how to handle the coming dementia crisis. Here’s the bad news and some good news.
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Traveling with a THR (total hip replacement) in the age of the TSA
Although we can all expect travel to be more of a pain these days, THR patients should probably plan and allow for extra time when a security checkpoint must be passed.
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What happens when your EHR provider shuts down?
While no medical facility wants to suffer through a data migration, sometimes being forced to upgrade winds up providing benefits.
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New Kindle Fire App for your daily dose of Medscape
If you’re a Medscape fan, and you like to consume content on your Kindle Fire, you’ll be thrilled to know that the free Medscape app is now available for your beloved ebook reader.
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Texting your emergency room for wait times
These days people are texting for everything…including emergency room wait times.
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Why does my computer stalk me with pictures of shoes I shouldn’t buy?
For the past two days the shoes I thought I’d gotten out of my system have been stalking me relentlessly across the Internet.
