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Nurse Pleads Guilty to Murdering Eight with Insulin

Insulin Nation

An Ontario nurse admitted in court that she used insulin to murder eight older Canadians in her care, according to media reports. She told investigators she quit nursing because she was worried about what she might do to the children at the new job. Some of her victims had diabetes, while others did not.

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UMass Memorial Health proves RPM virtual sitting is as effective as in-person care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Launched in 2006, its tele-ICU program remotely monitors more than 150 adult critical care beds across Central Massachusetts. "In September 2020, the IT team partnered with nursing leadership and Caregility to launch a pilot for virtual observation to prove its effectiveness," he continued. THE PROBLEM.

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AI-powered RPM can help address the rural neonatal care crisis

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Coupled with a worsening nursing shortage , this is a huge problem for rural American families. hospitals rose 45% from 2006 to 2015. Even before the pandemic, maternal and infant outcomes in the U.S. were shockingly poor.

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A look back on 2020: reshaping the healthcare IT landscape

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Since my arrival to Penn Medicine in 2006 (back then we were known as the University of Pennsylvania Health System), I have always believed that our team should be "services" oriented and just not "systems/technology" oriented.

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Big tech – from simple tools to cynicism and hapless users

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Then came Twitter in 2006. Uh, was I shown that because of one of my tweets about tech in nursing homes? All these tools were initially innocuous, before tracking our behavior online became pervasive and profitable. And thus the online megaphone was born. Did I want to know that Beyoncé was going to release a visual album?

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How Continuing Medical Education Impacts Physician Self-Assessment

Continue Education Journal

2006 Sep 6;296(9):1094-102. Ratings of performance in multisource feedback: comparing performance theories of residents and nurses. Accuracy of physician self-assessment compared with observed measures of competence: a systematic review. doi: 10.1001/jama.296.9.1094. 296.9.1094. PMID: 16954489. Govaerts, M.,

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Correctional Healthcare Is Changing and Here’s Why

GlobalMed

When you think of a typical telehealth visit, you might picture a patient at home communicating with a primary care provider or a patient and nurse in a long-term care facility coordinating care with a specialist. In 2001, a prisoner taken to University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas took two nurses hostage and assaulted them. .