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Mount Graham Regional Medical Center selects HealthStore® to retire legacy systems & access historical patient data

WOBURN, MA – 23 February 2023 – Mount Graham Regional Medical Center (MGRMC), Arizona, has appointed leading healthcare data management specialists, BridgeHead Software, to implement HealthStore® to retire its inherited and legacy healthcare applications whilst retaining easy access to their valuable, historical patient data. BridgeHead’s award-winning clinical data repository, HealthStore, will provide clinicians and support… Read More »

2 LSU medical students save sick passenger on international flight

Loading the player… Two medical students from Louisiana State University are being widely praised for helping a woman who fell ill on board a recent flight to Greece. Heather Duplessis and Lauren Bagneris came to the aid of the unnamed woman, who was lightheaded and had fallen due to low blood sugar and heat exhaustion. … Read More »

Medical Journals Reluctant to Take On Racism, Critics Say

Advertisement Continue reading the main story Supported by Continue reading the main story Medical Journals Reluctant to Take On Racism, Critics Say An editor’s departure at JAMA is bringing calls for a sharper focus on racism and its consequences. Dr. Raymond Givens, a cardiologist at Columbia University in New York, noted that 93 percent of… Read More »

Top medical journal editor ousted over podcast on racism

Dr. Howard Bauchner has been ousted as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association due to a controversial podcast involving racism in medicine. At issue was a JAMA podcast on Feb. 24 during which Dr. Edward Livingston, the host of the podcast and then-deputy editor at JAMA, said that “structural racism is… Read More »

“Heroes Work Here:” Never More True at Angel Medical Center Than During the Pandemic Year

Karen Gorby By Karen S. Gorby, RN, MSN, MBA, CENP, FACHE It’s May, and as we enjoy a beautiful spring — as well as the chance to get out and about more since we have been fortunate to have access to the COVID-19 vaccine — it promises to be quite different than last year’s. Twelve… Read More »

A panic attack brought on by the stress of medical school [PODCAST]

“As I leaned against the pristine wall, my vision suddenly dimmed. Everything turned gray. I gulped for air. My arms and legs went numb. I felt that drowning sensation I’d had in third grade when a nun pushed my head between my legs to keep me from fainting in church on a brutally hot June… Read More »