Patient simulator will enhance training for medical emergencies in space
...s Office. "The project also links the medical and operations sides of a mission. In the event of a medical eme..., flight surgeons, biomedical engineers and flight operations need to be ready to react at a moment's notice." The patient simulator is linked to a sophisticate......e they observed aircraft carrier and fleet command operations during Exercise Transparent Hunter, and visited the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and the Third Fleet's flagship USS Coronado to see Naval technology first-hand. This was the first in a series of such events, called VCs@Sea. Bales' charter includes ...Judging performance impact of IT: Don't overlook actual usage, says O.R. study
...t System (DSS) - a standard tool made available by operations researchers - and quality and profitability benefi... because hospitals are increasingly relying on the operations research tool to improve health care and economic performance. Clinicians and risk managers analyze...Children's Hospital Boston finds capacity can be increased by smoothing scheduled patient flow
...annot be eliminated, but it can be managed through operations management methodologies. "Artificial" is characteristically non-random or more unpredictable since it is driven by unknown individual priorities and related to controllable factors in the design and management of healthcare systems. An example of th...Study: Transferred patients hurt big hospitals' rankings
...nd including other data such as numbers of certain operations performed each year. Today, the number and variety of ranking and scoring programs has ballooned, with everyone from the major hospital accreditation organization -- called JCAHO -- to the magazine U.S. News & World Report issuing report cards on ho...Physicians not 'easy marks' for drug sales reps, argues O.R. study
...he study the authors used statistical modeling and operations research methods to assess the effect that changes in the amount of detailing and sampling had on the number of additional new prescriptions the physician issued over the subsequent six-month period for the drug. They found that pharmaceutical compa...Rheumatoid arthritis patients caught in middle of doctors' disagreement over hand surgery
... paper, they also analyzed data on numbers of hand operations performed on rheumatoid arthritis patients in each...significantly in their opinions of when particular operations might be appropriate for particular patients. Presented with case studies of hypothetical patients, ...Innovative Canadian companies receive funding to improve air quality
...ore efficient process will also put Canadian-based operations on a more competitive footing. We commend this team on their commitment to sustainable development," says Dr. Vicky Sharpe, President and CEO at SDTC. NOVA Chemicals Corporation is a focused commodity chemical company, producing olefins/polyolefins a...FDA approves Wellbutrin XL(TM)
... better and live longer. GlaxoSmithKline has U.S. operations in Philadelphia and Research Triangle Park, N.C....National enforcement program galvanizes action at the state and local levels to reduce teen drinking
...median numbers of compliance checks, Cops in Shops operations and arrests of youth for purchases, possession or use of alcohol." In public education, he said the program has stimulated large increases in the number of states sponsoring media campaigns and media advocacy to educate the public about the proble...NSF considers alternatives for treating ill South Pole worker
...ng comes to the Southern Hemisphere, normal flight operations will soon commence to support the several thousand researchers and other personnel who travel to Antarctica under the auspices of the U.S. Antarctic Program. The Twin Otters flown by Kenn Borek as well as U.S. Air Force C-141s and C-17s, ski-equippe...Promise of laparoscopic liver resection for liver cancer explored in unique program
...h benign liver tumors. About 3,000 liver resection operations are performed in the United States each year whereby surgeons cut away segments of the liver that contain tumors. In some cases, 75 percent of the liver may be surgically removed. However, fewer than 5 percent of theses cases are done using minimall...A NEW way of stopping the heart during bypass operations could reduce damage to the heart and improve patients' chances of a full recovery. More than a million people a year have open-heart surgery to unblockor bypass clogged arteries, or repair damaged valves. The heart is usually stopped for about one h...Florida study shows surgical mishaps more likely in physician offices than surgery centers
...edures than in the hospital, and the proportion of operations in physician offices continues to rise. Many cance...ions, compared to a death rate of 0.78 per 100,000 operations in surgery centers. The incidence of all adverse incidents -- death, injuries and conditions requiri...Successful prostate surgery: It's quality of surgery not quantity that matters most
...prostate surgery and not necessarily the number of operations performed is the key to a patient's future quality...adical prostectomies to the annual number of these operations performed, classified in five categories ranging from more than 50 a year to less than five a year. ...Joslin and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center sign new joint venture clinical agreement
... added. All clinical, administrative and financial operations will be under the guidance of a Joint Operating Committee, led by Dr. Moses and Michael Epstein, M.D., Chief Operating Officer of BIDMC.Joslin Diabetes Center and BIDMC will remain as separate entities. Joslin will continue its existing collaboration......of math and science to decision making. The use of operations research techniques to cut health care costs has m...he INFORMS publication Interfaces, Yale University operations researcher Robert Fetter reported that his team's creation of Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGS) for th...Researchers fly away from gravity on the 35th ESA Parabolic Flight Campaign
...nds to investigate the feasibility of carrying out operations in space. This is something that astronauts may one day need to know how to do for long-term manned missions. Testing for space Several experiments are testing hardware destined for the International Space Station (ISS). One will test the concep...Georgetown University receives $6.5 million grant to enhance emergency preparedness in Washington
...e convert its entire medical research and clinical operations into HIPAA-compliant status; they will employ similar tools to ensure that only authorized people can access these shared data sets and that all patient privacy will be respected. This National Library of Medicine grant represents the first federal ...Aortic aneurysm death risk hinges on choice of surgeon, study finds
...n may count even more than the sheer number of AAA operations at an individual hospital. This is important for i... surgeon based on the number of different types of operations -- from heart bypasses to appendectomies -- he or she performed that year. No matter what their spec...