Doctor Uses Facebook to Save a Life, and Other Links

By Filed under Interesting Links on December 21, 2010 with 5 comments

Doctor uses Facebook to save a patient’s life. Incident related by Newt Gingrich and Kamal Thapar.

There were 260 reports of health IT malfunctions in 2008 and 2009, including 44  injuries and six deaths.

Can a stem cell transplant cure AIDS? For one patient it has, but an expert says “it’s absurdly impractical.”

Study: brain death calls should be quicker: (1) we need your organs before they deteriorate  and (2) the longer we wait the more likely your family is to change its mind about organ donation consent.

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  1. Tom H. says:
    December 21, 2010 at 11:43 am

    I think brain death calls should be quicker. As long as the patient is someone else.

  2. Bruce says:
    December 21, 2010 at 11:44 am

    Are you telling us Health IT doesn’t always work? Surprise!

  3. Ken says:
    December 21, 2010 at 11:54 am

    What does “impractical” mean? If it works it works. Right?

  4. Vicki says:
    December 21, 2010 at 5:07 pm

    Thanks for the heads up we get at this site on health IT. Everybody else seems to be cheerleading for it.

  5. Madeline says:
    December 21, 2010 at 5:08 pm

    I would prefer that the ER docs not be too quick to grab my organs.