Sentences with phrase «doctors in his hospital in»

In the mid-1800s, Ignaz Semmelweis discovered that doctors in his hospital in Vienna were spreading puerperal fever when they went directly from performing autopsies to delivering babies — but his work was mostly ignored.

According to Dr. Mercola, it was reported that doctors in a hospital in Quebec (Canada) actually found Bt toxin in the blood of 93 % of pregnant women tested, 80 % of their babies, and almost 70 % of non-pregnant women.

Not exact matches

There's still much more work to be done before robots can be routinely used in hospitals to help doctors perform surgery and other functions.

-- Roman Giverts, CEO of VuMedi, a video medical education network, used by more than 250,000 doctors and hospitals, for learning and evaluating treatment options in one place

At hospitals across the country, in fact, there is an entrenched doctor shortage, which has grown only more acute as millions of Americans have gained health coverage in recent years.

Now introduce smartphone technology and applications that let the information exchange, virtual examination, and imaging happen in multiple directions — between patient and physician and hospital — and you've made a doctor's visit smarter, faster, and cheaper.

The professional matchmaking process lets health systems find doctors with specific credentials (say, an internal medicine specialist with five years» experience who is free to work at a New York — area hospital in July) and vice-versa.

One New York startup, Nomad Health, pairs doctors with hospitals in need of physicians in three specialties — internal medicine, emergency medicine, and psychiatry.

Other early seeds include the hot diabetes - drug company Intarcia Therapeutics (which I wrote about in November) and the Jonathan Bush - helmed athenahealth (now worth nearly $ 5 billion), which has become a prominent force in the age of the cloud - based doctor's office and hospital.

Many of us have some type of medical policy because if a major accident or illness occurs, the financial cost of a large number of doctor visits or surgeries in a hospital quickly overwhelms our savings.

Speaking at the MedCity Converge conference in Philadelphia, Quackenbush noted that the average hospital is generating roughly 665 terabytes of data annually, with some four - fifths of it in the unstructured forms of images, video, and doctor's notes.

CNBC's Eunice Yoon speaks to a medical practitioner from China's «barefoot» doctor program and an American investor running a high - end hospital in Beijing.

And if I'm a doctor or patient in a metropolitan area with five major hospitals, I'm looking at essentially five commodity items with all the same stuff.

«Health care goes beyond doctors and nursing professions — there is high demand for people to fill positions available in health care technology, at hospitals and elsewhere within the industry that tap into a variety of the categories we rank and that offer a low unemployment rate, a high median salary and robust job growth.»

This increase in abnormal test results can have negative consequences for medicine in the form of extra testing, additional patient visits to clinics / hospitals, and added doctor services, all of which result in additional costs and burdens to patients or to the healthcare system and are potentially harmful.

Doctors with his skills were in high demand as the Afghan conflict heated up, and in 2009 he went to Kandahar, where he became the last Canadian in charge of the Role 3 Multinational Hospital at Kandahar Airfield.

Healthcare delivery is different in the UK depending on where you live and which doctors and hospitals you use — just as it is in the US.

«It's also going to change how our kids learn in classes, how we stay healthy, how doctors and hospitals work, energy, transportation, even the food sector.»

New opportunities exist in hospital growth, doctor and nurse training, medical record - keeping and all ancillary businesses that support health care.

Aziz foresees a future where «a doctor could be transported to a hospital in Kenya while sitting in the relative comfort of his clinic in San Francisco.

Private hospitals are typically the best equipped, with state - of - the art technology and doctors that have studied in the world's best medical universities — many of them speak English and are well acquainted with the newest diagnostic and treatment procedures... some of which may not yet be available in the U.S., for example.

Some opponents also pointed to provisions in earlier versions of the bill that could make it easier for drug companies to obscure their financial contributions to hospitals and doctors under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, which is part of Obamacare.

In addition, it has bought up hundreds of physician's practices and now employs more than 30,000 doctors — thousands more than some major hospitals.

It is interesting to note that there is already an iOS app called Bedside that is also in the hospital space, though it is doctor - facing as opposed to patient - facing.

Placement: In a quiet moment, one doctor buys another a package of M&M's from a hospital vending machine.

A doctor recommended that the German pilot who crashed a Germanwings jet into the Alps last year should be treated in a psychiatric hospital two weeks before the disaster, French investigators said on Sunday.

That way, the hospital or emergency technician doesn't have to wait for the right doctor to show up to take action, saving precious minutes in a critical situation.

Hospitals and doctors» surgeries across England were forced to turn away patients and cancel appointments on Friday after a nationwide «ransomware» cyber attack crippled some computer systems in the state - run health service.

The hacking was carried out as hospitals and doctors» surgeries in England were forced to turn away patients and cancel appointments on Friday after a ransomware attack crippled some computer systems in the state - run health service.

The robots are featured prominently in hospital marketing campaigns aimed at attracting patients, and new doctors are routinely trained in their use.

Now, when doctors, hospital administrators, or even the general public visit the showroom, they can see the transformation of an older model to a redesigned version and all the variations in between.

Working with Blue Fountain Media, Long Island Heart Doctors was able to acheive the top organic search result on page one when you type in «heart doctor,» out - ranking everyone from Wikipedia to the nation's top cardiology hospitals.

At smaller - but - modern clinics, like Hospital America or Clinica Omega, you'll pay 50 - 75 % less, and in rural areas a doctor's visit can be far less.

In addition, hospitals must now engage and align interests with patients, doctors, employees, insurers and the community at large to ensure quality care and effective use of resources.

The Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld a decision that a lawyer must personally pay the legal costs of a hospital and a doctor involved in a legal battle with her, over her attempt to remove a client from life support, saying she was «intent on achieving her own personal objective.»

«We had a guillotine over our head,» says Stephen Anderson, an emergency medicine doctor at MultiCare Auburn Medical Center, which operates eight hospitals in and around Tacoma and Spokane, Washington.

In excavating the story of King's visit to Harlem Hospital, I uncovered my grandfather's own fight for civil rights — and realized I'd misunderstood his legacy as a black doctor all along.

Aetna also has new partnerships with large health systems that include hospitals and doctors» groups in Northern California and Virginia.

Other scenarios are less clear: A doctor states that a person died from respiratory problems, and then mentions in the death certificate that the hospital didn't have enough oxygen tanks.

Pesquera, head of Puerto Rico's Department of Public Safety, says that in such a case, medical examiners are supposed to contact the doctor to find out if the hospital didn't have oxygen because of the hurricane.

WellStar Health System's services include cardiac, cancer, diabetes and women's healthcare, in addition to a network of interconnected hospitals, doctors» offices, and urgent care facilities.

It also caused further turmoil in an industry reeling from attempts by new players to attack a notoriously inefficient, intractable web of doctors, hospitals, insurers and pharmaceutical companies.

Doctors and staff at public hospitals in the greater Athens area were walking off the job for...

«Patients are one example, but also doctors and nurses that have relationships with different hospital systems or anyone who needs to log in or interface with different healthcare applications.»

However, the couple was detained in July 2013 soon after the drugmaker was accused of funneling hundreds of millions of dollars to doctors and hospital staff in a massive bribery scandal.

In each of these countries you'll find clean, excellent hospitals, highly trained doctors, and affordable care.

Three - dimensional printers are letting doctors in Minnesota make simulated body parts in a hospital and a Brooklyn startup create rocket engines designed to put satellites into orbit, executives said Thursday at an event hosted by General Electric Co..

America's hospitals were beset by an unusual number of calamities in 2017: Fires raged in Northern and Southern California; hurricanes displaced thousands in Houston, Florida and Puerto Rico; the deadliest mass shooting in modern history killed 58 people and wounded more than 500 others in Las Vegas; and an attack at a Bronx hospital in which a doctor turned a gun on his former colleagues, killing one and injuring six.

After being listed in critical condition at Broward North Medical Center in Deerfield Beach, Wilford recovered, and doctors released her from the hospital on Feb. 24.

For example, doctor recommendations around cancer research — both in the U.S. and China, where we can pull together data from hospitals, analyze that data in ways that have never been possible before, and provide better potential advice to doctors and nurses — those are just great opportunities for startups.