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Deep dive: A tour of all-digital Oklahoma Heart Hospital, where automation is the norm

Healthcare It News

Oklahoma Heart Hospital was founded in 2002 with the idea of being something truly different – an all-digital hospital with a heavy focus on the patient experience and the latest automation that would change the way healthcare is delivered. It has succeeded. Patients are happy. Patients' families are happy.

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Ethics Education in U.S. Medical Schools’ Curricula

Bill of Health

By 2002, approximately 79 percent of U.S. In response to this, in 1977, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine became the first medical school to incorporate ethics education into its curriculum. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, medical schools increasingly began to incorporate ethics education into their curricula.

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MRO Celebrates 20 Years in Business

MRO Compliance

Back in May of 2002, I founded MRO with two colleagues to meet the evolving needs of document and disclosure management services for the healthcare industry. Quality assurance, while still important back in 2002, had to be done manually by having an employee physically check each record that was going to be released.

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An Innovative Solution To Support Expanded Telehealth Capability

Electronic Health Reporter

An established leader in telehealth technology, VA has been using real-time virtual video medical appointments since 2002 to connect veterans with VA clinicians […]. Gfrerer, chief information officer, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

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Australia ends support for 128 telehealth items

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The 2002 telepsychiatry items will be replaced by video telehealth items introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic, while inpatient telehealth items introduced in September 2021 will no longer be available.

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Accessing COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines for Research: The Re-emergence of the Tragedy of the ‘Anticommons’

Bill of Health

This defense has been applied rarely, since research is usually connected to a commercial objective. The defense has been narrowed down over the years and “not for profit” status of an entity is not determinative ( Madey v. Duke University, 307 F.3d 3d 1351 (Fed.

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The Legacy of COVID-19 Is Shaping Consumers’ Purchases for Health-At-Home

Health Populi

GfK highlights the growing interest in wellbeing and device demand in The State of Consumer Technology and Durables 2002 insights from GfK.

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