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- VeniceCA, on 01/29/2009, -0/+26It floors me when I got to the doctor and they hand me photocopies of instructions that look like they been recopied a 1000 times. WTF? Doesn't the health care industry make enough money to invest in some friggin technology other than diagnostic equipment?
- Deveak, on 01/30/2009, -1/+14I'm sorry I cant hear you, could you please spit out steve jobs dick and say it again.
- inactive, on 01/30/2009, -1/+12Christ....talk about a high stress System Administrator gig...
- xtal3, on 01/30/2009, -4/+13Correlation != Causation
If a hospital doesn't have the money to adequately sterilize, how can they be terribly "wired"? Cash Rules Everything Around Me. - dcoolidge, on 01/29/2009, -0/+8Telemedicine is the way to go.
- Toshibi, on 01/30/2009, -0/+7Your average doctors office, if they have any sort of medical software at all, is usually still in debt up to their eyeballs paying for older proprietary systems. I used to do software support for some medical software, and the proprietary systems we usually replaced were on the order of $150,000 and most of the places were still paying for them.
- ancientdinko, on 01/30/2009, -0/+6 Wired hospitals are also more likely to have newer medical devices with better diagnostic and error reduction algorithms. Better skilled surgeons are also attracted to facilities with higher tech devices in areas like imaging, surgical navigation, robotics etc. so its not just about medical IT
. - branndon, on 01/30/2009, -0/+6
I read "wired" as "weird" about 3 times until I finally got it. - VodkanLemons, on 01/30/2009, -0/+5paper was 20th century
- moothemagiccow, on 01/30/2009, -3/+8No, dude. Having a patient's status readily available makes the patient easier to treat and results in higher quality care. Would you rather search through a filing cabinet or have a computer search through a database?
- diemunkiesdie, on 01/30/2009, -1/+6Wired? Please! They need to get with the times. Wireless hospitals FTW!
- Richandler, on 01/30/2009, -0/+4Should say "Rich Neighborhoods Hospitals Have Lower Death and Complication Rates."
- Zukas, on 01/30/2009, -1/+5Just more proof that the poor do NOT have equal opportunity.
- cruik, on 01/30/2009, -2/+6fallacious reasoning. Being a very well funded hospital is a prerequisite for becoming "wired." Well funded hospitals have more money to spend on each patient so of course they're better cared for. Correlation not causation.
- inactive, on 01/30/2009, -0/+4I thought it was referring to Wired magazine.
- Toshibi, on 01/30/2009, -0/+3Yeah, and most of the software requires arcane levels of understanding in medicine, insurance, and technology to support it.
- durgil, on 01/30/2009, -0/+3That's certainly the hope and the promise of having a wired hospital.
- wheresjim, on 01/30/2009, -0/+3I'm in that industry and the amount of VC that went into it last year was pathetic, something like 2-3% of total VC laid out.
- xtreme23, on 01/30/2009, -0/+3duh..
- orchidee2, on 01/30/2009, -1/+4I think that wired hospitals are a good idea, because rapid communication is a very important factor in health care. I am sure that there wouldn´t be so much double or unnecessary treatments any more. Another point is that it would be much easier to find a hospital with free capacities, so that seriously ill patients (e.g. those with a stroke) wouldn´t be forced any more to go through a kind of Odyssee from one hospital to another.
- armakaryk, on 01/30/2009, -0/+3oooo the new issue of weird is in. hey wait this isn't weird. wait theres no magazine called weird is there.
- Gemfinder, on 01/30/2009, -0/+3Think about how much more equipment and/or patient beds they could fit in if they just get rid of those HUMONGOUS double-parked sliding file cases, too.
- woog315, on 01/30/2009, -0/+2I was going to post exactly this. A hospital being wired is a side-effect of a well funded hospital. I would bet a lower doctor/patient ratio and nurse/patient ratio has a lot more to do with it than having shiny new computers.
- Speed, on 01/31/2009, -0/+2And it wouldn't lead to different doctors prescribing conflicting medication.
- Speed, on 01/31/2009, -0/+2Actually, I'd say every person on here does since almost every ***** person said the exact same god damned thing. Read before you ***** post.
- mavrick45, on 01/30/2009, -0/+2Um...no *****.
/works in the 28th highest rated hospital in the U.S. - linagee, on 01/30/2009, -0/+2Unless it's over wireless.
- inactive, on 01/30/2009, -0/+228th? What's it like down there?
- NotShorty, on 01/30/2009, -0/+2Huh? Which aspect of it? I don't necessarily disagree, but that's an overly-simplified response to a complicated problem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telemedicine
I don't think the "technology = better" argument applies here unless it is carefully implemented... - barth2k, on 01/30/2009, -0/+2I bet hospitals with sushi bars and massage service also have lower morbidity. we must install sushi bars in every hospital, STAT!
- adiggityam, on 01/30/2009, -2/+3Socialize it.
- kenberto, on 01/30/2009, -2/+3Yeah, but can you prove that improves care, or could it just be wealthier hospitals have better care and more tech?
- Denelson83, on 01/31/2009, -0/+1Heh... I read that headline as "‘Wired’ Hospitals Lost Power Death & Complication Rates".
- jethroalias97, on 01/30/2009, -1/+2CORRELATION NOT CAUSATION......... AAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh nobody understands causality :(
- trejrco, on 01/31/2009, -0/+1Good old MOS, per chance? What a kludgy POS that was ... but not cheap!
- Speed, on 01/31/2009, -0/+1For ***** sakes, must you Diggtards turn every ***** story into some conspiracy theory about the federal government?
- Speed, on 01/31/2009, -0/+128th highest rated hospital in the 8th highest rated health care system, which is also the wealthiest country in the world...
Might not want to brag about that... - Speed, on 01/31/2009, -1/+2Until they can prove that wireless doesn't interfere with live saving equipment, not gonna happen.
"Well, Mr. Jenkins, we can have your medical history wirelessly beamed to my Blackberry, but it will kill Mrs. James. Sleep tight" - adiggityam, on 01/30/2009, -3/+2It makes sense that being wired would be better for a hospital, sure. But why do we need a headline? This article tells us less than nothing because it is simply reporting on a correlation, while inferring causation from that.
- LenBaird, on 01/30/2009, -3/+2This is a sales pitch for their new plan to "wire" all of your personal medical info to the federal government.
- AppleMacStud, on 01/30/2009, -14/+2It's also a proven fact that hospitals that use Macs are more efficient in there work. Proof:
http://www.apple.com/science/medicine/videosurgery ...
Life Is Good On A Mac.™
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