According to the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems, the quality of a nurse’s conversations with his/her patient can potentially affect their satisfaction, how public information is received and understood, and how reimbursements are made from Medicare and Medicaid. In this article, the authors of Ethics and Issues in Contemporary Nursing offer their tips into upholding […]
More and more drives are being sold as “green” drives, usually running at 5400 RPM rather than 7200 RPM. Are they really energy savers, and what might you lose by choosing the “green” drive? Ars Technica opens the question here, noting that the projected use of the drive weighs heavily on the decision to employ […]
A new study, conducted by the CVS Caremark Corp., found that patients who take medications as prescribed by their doctors may save the health care system as much as $7,800 per patient annually. The company said that the study, which analyzed annual pharmacy and medical costs over a three-year period, revealed reductions in emergency department […]
Bought a new Intel Core i5 or i7 processor (or new PC with one of those CPUs) in the last three weeks? ZDNet reports Intel will be handling returns of i5 and i7 processors due to a flaw in a support chip that can lead to degraded performance of SATA drives over time. The chipset […]
Are you checking your sources when researching health information online? With the smartphone and tablet computer market rising, more health information is available online than ever before. The Bupa Health Pulse surveyed more than 12,000 people in Australia, Brazil, Britain, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, Russia, Spain and the United States and found that […]
For years, the disparity of Linux package installers (yum in Red Hat, urpmi in Mandriva, apt-get in Debian and Ubuntu, yast in Suse) had divided users of different distributions by forcing them to applications supported by an installer designed for their particular distribution, unless they were willing to compile the application from source code. Now, […]
According to the “Healthcare Performance Management in the Era of Twitter” report published by the Healthcare Performance Management Institute, social media initiatives are helping physicians, patients, and the medical community lower health care costs while improving patient care. Social Media sites enable all doctors to communicate online to coordinate care for their patients. For some, […]
msconfig not displaying enough information to suit you? Task Manager won’t stop process from running automatically at boot or login? Sysinternals has a tool to display and control processes launched automatically, including Logon, Explorer shell extensions, Internet Explorer, Scheduled tasks, Services, Drivers, Winlogon notifications, KnownDLLs, AppInit, Image Hijacks, Boot Execute, Codecs, Sidebar Gadgets, Network Providers, […]
Even though the recession has caught up to nursing, the so-called “recession-proof” job, experts say the demand for nurses won’t be slowed for long. Vanderbilt’s Peter Buerhaus, a national expert on nursing employment, predicts that the nation will be short of 260,000 nurses by 2025, primarily attributed to an increasing demand for care as the […]
In the market for an SSD to replace your SATA drive? Not a bad idea, but don’t throw away your SATA drive just yet. While SSDs are great for fast booting and fast reads and writes, performing multiple writes to the same file, or deleting files frequently can actually reduce the life of your drive. […]