The Philadelphia Inquirer: Electronic Medical Records Systems Create Need For Scribes To Input Data The rise in electronic medical records has given Brittany Fera, a premed student at Temple University, an “awesome” job that she had no idea existed before she saw an ad last year. … The new record-keeping systems, which are touted as a way to improve efficiency and quality, slow down emergency medicine physicians so much that the doctors are hiring young people like Fera to input data for them. They call this growing group of employees “medical scribes” (Burling, 4/21).
Earlier this month, I posted my Turbulence Training review and how I am following the program. Right now, I am still in the first four weeks of it and I’m enjoying it very much. The workouts are short, intense, and don’t take up a lot of time during the week. However, I also borrowed my dad’s copy of Insanity. If you’re not familiar with it, it is a fitness program put out by Beachbody®, the company that also produces P90X.
What is the Insanity Workout About?
Insanity is an advanced interval training workout.
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Who says fitness equipment has to be expensive? Well, if you’re looking to add some challenge to your workouts, you may be interested in creating your own slosh pipe. Slosh pipe training is new to me and I learned about it after flipping through a fitness magazine. It is simply a piece of PVC pipe (6 to 10 feet long, 3 to 4 inches in diameter) and two end caps.
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The retina is the light-sensitive tissue found at the posterior portion of the inner eye. It focuses the images that comes through the lens and converts them into electrical impulses which are sent to the brain via the optic nerve. It contains photoreceptor cells (cones and rods) contained in its most sensitive part, the macula. The retina has around seven million cones for detailed daytime vision and color perception; and about 75 – 150 million rods for the dim light (black and white) and peripheral visions. A light-sensitive ganglion cell helps in the reflexive responses to bright light.
The retina occupies around 65 percent of the eye’s inner surface. It
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Kansas Health Institute News: HIT Expert Offers Tips For Small And Rural Providers Shopping For EHR Systems Medical providers, especially those in rural and small offices, who are shopping for an electronic health record vendor should consider the issue of data portability before making a decision, said David Blumenthal, who until this spring was the national coordinator for health information technology. … Systems with low or zero data portability effectively tie a medical provider to a given software vendor by discouraging or not allowing bulk file downloads from the remote server. … Read more