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Preventing Medical Errors with Proven Bar-Code Technology
Bar-code technologies, which have proven effective at points-of-sale in stores and during order-fulfillment in warehouses are preventing errors at points-of-care and during medication preparations in hospitals. A US television commercial for Berlitz language courses begins with a senior officer briefing a draftee on how to man the station before leaving him on his own. No…
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Consumer Health Opportunities
People who are committed to healthful eating and lifestyles are well-informed about ingredients and food labels, and hard to sway with label claims. Yet they don’t fully appreciate the health benefits of frozen fruit and vegetables. Those are a few insights from a new report from Dunnhumby that analyzes the value and behaviors of “health-committed”…
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Self Care – Its Time Has arrived With Positive Health Outcomes by Design
Wishing vs. doing By giving people more ways to speak up and more tools to take action, we keep decreasing the gap between what we wish for and what we can do about it. If you’re not willing to do anything about it, best not to waste the energy wishing about it. Seth Godin Self…
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Where Has That Hand Been?
Don’t touch anything! Researchers Track Virus Spread Within Public Buildings Remember when your mother used to tell you, “Don’t touch anything” before you entered your aunt’s house—or just about any building? Well, it turns out she was right, but not because you could break something. Rather, your probability of developing an infection from touching surfaces…
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The Placebo Effect-a Definition by Seth Godin
Seth Godin has written an article plus an e-book about the placebo effect. As he points out, the placebo used ethically, can have a positive result. He applies placebo principles to items other than drugs, because there is a generic effect as well. Download his e-book found within the placebo link at the bottom of…
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Trends in Healthcare – From Quantitative to Qualitative
The near ubiquitous acceptance of smartphones and mobile internet access have ushered in a new wave of connected devices and smart objects that help us compile and track an unprecedented amount of previously unavailable data. This quantification of self, which used to be the sole domain of fitness fanatics and professional athletes, is now being…