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Northpinellas: Emergency room embraces technology: "Watch television, listen to the radio and surf the Internet - without having to leave your emergency room bed. Patients will be able to access those services when Sun Coast Hospital's new $3.1-million emergency room opens next year. The 10,000 -square-foot emergency care department will almost double in size from 11 to 21 rooms. Groundbreaking was Thursday, and construction will take about a year. The new emergency room will be partially open in June 2005 and fully operational in November 2005." Warning on internet health advice: "People with chronic disease should think twice before relying on the internet for health advice, research suggests. A University College London study found many would be in a better condition if they had simply listened to their doctor's advice. The study found interactive computer tools do improve medical knowledge. But there was no evidence they change behaviour positively, and some ...

BBC NEWS | Health | Warning of major NHS IT overspend : "The final cost of modernising NHS computer systems could rise to between �18.6bn and �31bn - three to five times the declared figure - it is reported. " Vendors building high-performance knowledge system Vendors building high-performance knowledge system: "In a bid to greatly increase officials' ability to manage interconnected information, employees at Ontology Works Inc. and database developer Objectivity Inc. are working together on the High Performance Knowledge Server. The system will manage large volumes of information, according to developers at the two companies. As Ontology Works' name suggests, the system will be based on ontology, a philosophical concept that pertains to the essential nature of things and the relationships among them. In the information technology context, ontologies refer to cataloging data as it is used by people in a particular discipline and charting those relationships, said...

Doctors need to improve patient safety: "A lthough Measure 35 is ostensibly about reducing injuries from medical care, neither the current system of unrestrained awards nor their capping really addresses meaningful solutions to improving health-care quality and patient safety. While our current system of malpractice rewards is highly flawed, I also take my own profession to task for not acknowledging, let alone remedying, the very real problem of injury suffered in the course of medical care. Organized medicine can no longer ignore the problem of medical injury. Anywhere from 48,000 to 200,000 people die each year in this country because of medical errors, according to studies from a number of well-respected research organizations. These deaths not only come from a small number of 'bad apple' practitioners but also from the rest of the health-care system that lacks tools to detect and prevent errors that are used routinely by virtually all other industries. "