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Post #2 Back-to-Sleep Series

Sensible Medicine

For example, Bergman reports a 2002 study in which ventilated premature babies were placed to sleep on either their tummies or backs, and the following states were measured: quiet sleep, active sleep (which is less restorative than quiet sleep), crying time, number of stress responses (startle, tremor, and twitch), and oxygen saturation.

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Optum: Testing Time for an Invisible Empire

The Healthcare Blog

Then someone discovered that the largest living thing in the world was actually the 106 acre, 47 thousand tree Pando aspen grove in central Utah, which genetic testing revealed to be a single organism. United channeled almost $52 billion of that cash into buying health-related businesses, nearly all of which end up housed inside Optum.

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Babies with the DNA of Three Different People Born in the U.K.

Scrubs

Once the egg has been fertilized with sperm, it is transferred back into the womb of the mother. “The Newcastle team involved in carrying out the procedures are cautious and will have wanted to include at least some follow-up data on the babies, while also protecting the privacy of the families,” Lovell-Badge explained.

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Why Good communication Matters in Healthcare

Practice Builders

Incorrect diagnoses, surgical errors, and medication mix-ups often result from delayed or unclear communication. Practice the following: Standardized protocols, such as SBAR (Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation) for concise team briefings. More than 60% of adverse events in the hospital are due to communication errors.

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Outsourced Software Product Development: A Comprehensive Guide

Arkenea

Rather than building and maintaining a large inhouse team, businesses partner with specialized vendors to handle design, development, testing, and deployment. Quality assurance: Manual and automated testing, security audits, compliance checks. Scalability Outsourced teams can flex up or down based on project phases.

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A Comprehensive Guide To APIs In Healthcare

Arkenea

FHIR uses REST (Representational State Transfer) as the basis of API and for data transfer. Drawback of APIs in healthcare is the lack of design, proper testing, and monitoring tools. Application programming interfaces allow information systems to streamline communication and transfer data.

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4 Military Spouse Facts Worth Sharing

MedCerts

However, transferring these licenses between states can take time and effort, resulting in extended periods of unemployment. The academic instability among military-dependent students increases the chances of lower standardized test scores and school dropouts. According to the U.S.