Hospital Medicine

A physician's recent rotation as a hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconness Hospital was made "seamless" by the iPad.

The case report focuses on a two-year old who was not responsive to probiotics or intensive antibiotic treatment.

Compliance with statin therapy in the first two years of use may reduce hospitalization rates and direct medical costs in the subsequent year.

The uncommon condition seems to be midway between a cluster headache and trigeminal neuralgia, according to Dr. Pullen.

More than 1,000 pain clinics have opened in Florida in the last few years, leading to a thriving trade in illegal pill distribution.

Graduating medical school, "we" all stood and repeated, deep within our private solemnity, a modern version of the Hippocratic oath. Nowhere is a "we" to be seen. Instead, "I swear... I will keep... I will impart... I will follow..." transitions us from students to practitioners.

Hospitals seeking to provide quality care must first focus on improving relationships with their employees, according a Press Ganey survey, which found that 45% of hospital workers are discontent with their work.

Hospital-owned practices were the most successful in attracting physicians in 2009, according to a report from the MGMA, which says one of the key drivers for this trend could be higher starting compensation.

KSDK, a news station from St. Louis, MO, recently ran an article on how the iPad is being used at the St. Louis Children's Hospital to help educate, distract, and prepare patients.

A roundup of recent articles in the clinical literature that look at the use of smartphones and apps in a variety of healthcare specialties and settings.

Last week, the California Department of Public Health fined five hospitals a total of $675,000 after determining that the facilities failed to prevent unauthorized access to confidential patient medical records.

This week: measuring the impact of technology on physicians' personal and professional lives, EMRs and the usability factor,Health IT consultants for office-based physicians, and cloud computing in healthcare.

A team of scientists in Taiwan recently completed a study evaluating the combination of band ligation and nadolol to prevent a first variceal bleed due to cirrhosis, finding that the combination is not effective and may actually increase adverse events.

Dr. Pullen's latest blog entry discusses this frequently asked office question, how it can have several different meanings, and how the answer may change, depending on what the question is really asking.

Roughly one-quarter of all hospital patients were readmitted for the same conditions that prompted their initial hospitalization over a 2-year period, according to a report from the AHRQ.

We spoke to Jay Parkinson, MD, recently to catch up on Hello Health, learn what new ventures he's involved in, and discuss his ideas on how to effectively improve the healthcare system.

Counties that have teaching hospitals experience a 10% rise in fatal drug errors during the month of July, according to research published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

The past few years, Apple's WWDC conference has been mostly directed at developers. But as Apple fanboys/girls have become increasingly interested in anything Apple-related, and with the anticipation of some iPhone 4G news, consumers have begun to come out in droves along with developers. For those of you who could not make it, we present the Cover It Live platform below, which will extract all conversations on Twitter related to this event, and will also include videos, pictures, and other resources our editors find relating to WWDC announcements and news.

The most difficult question I am asked, by patients, is "Why?" Why did I become an addict? Why do I still have cravings? Why do I slip up and use, even thought I know it's wrong and I feel stupid and horrible doing it?

In the minds of many consumers, evidence-based medicine isn't all it's cracked up to be. According to a study published in Health Affairs, misconceptions and a lack of knowledge are preventing many Americans from embracing the concept.

Children with private insurance are much less likely to be admitted to a specialty care hospital than children with public insurance, researchers in California have found.

Google may be looking for alternatives to Microsoft and selecting the right EMR requires more than just a checklist of functions.

The Associated Press has released some guidelines pertaining to social media terms and usage in the new AP Stylebook; some changes are long overdue, and others are a bit of a headscratcher.

If we're serious about reducing healthcare expenditures in this country, is reducing physician income an essential and inevitable component of meaningful cost control and healthcare reform?

According to a CDC report, central-line associated bloodstream infections decreased by 18% nationally during the first six months of 2009 compared to the previous three years.

Patients who receive antibiotics within 2 days of admission for a COPD exacerbation are less likely to be mechanically ventilated and less likely to be readmitted to the hospital.

Boston University School of Medicine researchers have shown that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can non-invasively identify dangerous atherosclerotic plaques in the coronary artery and other vessels.

The American healthcare system is finally on the road to a modern national IT infrastructure. Recently, the iMedicalApps team had the opportunity to speak to a small but ambitious group of IT professionals who aim to be at the forefront of this modernization by targeting the physicians with the lowest penetration of electronic health records, those in smaller private practices.