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Atrium HealthCare System

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Atrium Health, formerly Carolinas HealthCare System, is a not for profit hospital network which operates hospitals, freestanding emergency departments, urgent care centers, and medical practices in the American states of North Carolina and South Carolina. This is a definition of the system according to Wikipedia . What is Veganism and What are its Benefits? The Headquarters :  Charlotte, North Carolina, United States The CEO :  Eugene A. Woods The CFO :  Anthony C. DeFurio Its Subsidiaries :  MedCost, LLC ,  Atrium Health Union ,  MORE The Executive vice president :  Ken D. Haynes ,  Carol A. Lovin ,  Anthony C. DeFurio ,  Keith A. Smith Atrium Health is one of the United States leading healthcare systems with over 900 locations in both South and North and Carolina. In the past year, most citizens have shown interest in the healthcare system which can only suggest that it is popular among the people...

Benefits of giving your infant a massage

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The sense of  touch  is the most developed sense from delivery. Touch is one of the ways that a parent and their baby can communicate and form a lasting loving relationship. Giving your infant a  massage  is capable of creating a special bond and connection between you. Benefits of giving your infant a massage include: Increased self-esteem and self-awareness for the infant. Massage promotes happiness and self-worth which will stay with a child. Baby feels more at ease and calm as it brings a sense of peace and promotes relaxation for the infant. Bonding and connecting Massage increases an infant’s self-esteem and self-awareness. A gentle massage creates a loving connection and strengthens the bond and love between parent and baby, by bringing them closer together. A baby that is massaged is likely to grow into an individual that is caring and compassionate that can form loving relationships with others. Bonding and connecting wi...

athenaHealth athenaClinicals EMR Software Review

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The athenaClinicals is a low-investment, high return electronic health record (EHR) solution. It has grown rapidly to become possibly the leading Cloud-based, ambulatory care service provider. Athenahealth helps medical practices, large and small, get more money and more control thus, boost productivity. Physicians using athenaClinicals see an average of 3.4% (based on a six month survey) increase in patient visits compared with a reported 10-15% decrease across the industry recently. This EMR sosftware solution is very low maintenance, customizable, and offers many services that you will not get with most vendors on the market. Seeing that it has over 23,000 users nationwide, it is probably a safe bet that athenaClinicals is a solid solution. This is due to the fact that there would be far less practitioners using the solution in their practices every single day if this were not true. It positions itself as a true practice partner for your practice. You can in fact, have re...

A look at the efficiency of electronic medical records

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Electronic medical records (EMR) are a digital version of the traditional paper-based medical records for a patient’s medical history from one practice. Medical providers and practitioners use it mostly for diagnosis and treatment. They come is form of a software that can be installed into a computer. When a health care giver, a clinic or hospital, implements the EMR software, they generally improve on their efficiency and overall functionality of the health centre. Since this system comes with automation of some of the healthcare procedures such as diagnosis and patients data analysis, it greatly enhances accuracy. As a result, patients get to receive better care from the precise analysis of their conditions. This minimises the possibilities of making wrong diagnosis and giving wrong medical care. Medical diagnostic process becomes faster and more efficient for example; clinical testing imaging studies can be saved, edited and forwarded to different medical specialties for dia...

Coca Cola: what is does to your body in 60 minutes

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You love Coca-Cola, you take it when you are thirsty, with meals, or occasionally. If you knew what it does to your body just one hour after consumption, you wouldn’t love it so much anymore. An Indian scientist, Niraj Naik, recently revealed the harmful effect coke has on the body.     First 10 minutes Your system takes in 10 teaspoons of sugar. This is 100% of your daily recommended intake. Usually, you would vomit from the overwhelming sweetness. Instead, phosphoric acid cuts the flavour allowing you to keep it down. 20 minutes in Your blood sugar spurs, causing an insulin burst. Your liver, not wasting any time, responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. At this point, there’s plenty of sugar in your body. 40 minutes in The body completes the absorption of caffeine. Your blood pressure rises, your pupils dilate, subsequently, your liver dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. You will not be drowsy since the adenosine r...

The importance of hand washing with soap

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Dear Mother, I take this opportunity to educate you about the importance of hand washing with soap. Children should be taught to wash their hands on five key occasions: before eating breakfast, lunch and dinner, after visiting the toilet and during their bath. This culture should be instilled in them so that even as they grow they continue with it. Did you know that over five children die every day due to diarrhoea? It is worse in Africa. Diarrhoea cases are often times caused by contaminated food and/or water. If you can get children to wash their hands before handling food and after visiting the toilet, they can be protected from this deadly disease. As a mother, you also need to wash your hands before preparing food at all times. Avoid giving children foods and drinks that may be contaminated. It is also your duty to educate other adults who may be ignorant of this fact. Take charge and save innocent lives! Always, MinZeph.

MEANINGFUL USE 2 and PHR - I

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The New and Revised Standards of meaningful use stage 2 requirements were recently released. The core items of this legislation are as follows:   Patients are provided online access to their health information through a web portal on 50% of the occasions. Further 10% unique patients actually view, download or transmit that data to a third party. Successful on going submission of electronic immunization data from certified Electronic Health Record technology to an immunization registered is now a requirement. Previously on stage 1, only a test was acceptable. Practitioners are supposed to provide a summary of care record for 65% of transitions of care during referrals or transfer of patient care settings. They are also required to electronically transmit 10% across Electronic Health Records vendor types and organizations. This measure is a combination of Stage 1 core items (problem list, active medication list and active ...

MEANINGFUL USE 2 and PHR- II

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Health care givers who use these systems therefore enjoy the added advantage of the inclusion of the PHR. This makes is easy for them to fulfil the meaningful use requirements. The health care givers who do not however use the above mentioned EMR system solutions need not worry. There are several PHR solutions that are offered online and for free. Most of these solutions have the interoperability feature which most EMR system solutions lack. For instance, Epic Lucy PHR which does not rely on the Epic platform in order to run and can be accessed online. Another example is the Microsoft HealthVault which can be used to access health information even in the absence of an EMR system. Health care givers have no excuse therefore when it comes to implementing the meaningful use requirement of giving patients access to their health records upon request. There are however some obstacles with the PHR; in the section where patients can enter their own data into a free-standing personal hea...

athenaHealth athenaClinicals EMR Software Review

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The athenaClinicals is a low-investment, high return electronic health record (EHR) solution. It has grown rapidly to become possibly the leading Cloud-based, ambulatory care service provider. Athenahealth helps medical practices, large and small, get more money and more control thus, boost productivity. Physicians using athenaClinicals see an average of 3.4% (based on a six month survey) increase in patient visits compared with a reported 10-15% decrease across the industry recently. This EMR sosftware solution is very low maintenance, customizable, and offers many services that you will not get with most vendors on the market. Seeing that it has over 23,000 users nationwide, it is probably a safe bet that athenaClinicals is a solid solution. This is due to the fact that there would be far less practitioners using the solution in their practices every single day if this were not true. It positions itself as a true practice partner for your practice. You can in fact, have regu...