Clinical Care

Pharmaceutical

What You Need to Know About Online Pharmacies in 2019

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The Western PA Healthcare News Team

The internet has revolutionized the way we communicate, source for information, get foods, and even medicines. Two decades ago, getting ...

Cancer Care

Giving Biopsies Another Look Before Cancer Treatment Begins

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The Western PA Healthcare News Team

By Ilan Danieli As in every area of medicine, and in cancer care as well, ensuring the best possible outcome ...

Emergency Care

Avoid Ambulance Dispatch Delays

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The Western PA Healthcare News Team

Delays in EMS ambulance dispatch disrupt the entire EMS patient care process.  What begins as a non-issue can easily expand ...

Emergency Care

Avoiding EMS Trip Report Delays

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The Western PA Healthcare News Team

EMS agencies have been talking about if/when to move away from paper EMS trip reports to electronic EMS trip reports ...

Nursing

A Force to Be Reckoned With: Millennial Nurses Bring Growing Numbers and Higher Expectations to the Work Environment

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The Western PA Healthcare News Team

By Marcia Faller, PhD, RN, Chief Clinical Officer, AMN Healthcare Millennial nurses place a higher premium on professional development, quality ...

Urgent Care

5 Things to Consider Before Selling (Or Merging) Your Urgent Care Center

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The Western PA Healthcare News Team

By Luis de la Prida Here’s a hot trend we’re seeing: More and more urgent care centers are being approached by ...

Emergency Care

Tracking, Measuring and Improving EMS Data Entry and Documentation

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The Western PA Healthcare News Team

Creating a clinically solid, medically sound, and billing-compliant EMS patient care record is critical not just to patient health, but ...