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Hospitals use technology to continue disaster prep efforts
Disaster preparedness is the name of the game for engineers in California, who are in the midst of testing the stability of hospital buildings during an earthquake, The Verge reports . The engineers,
Social media to drive disaster preparedness
Although most hospitals have response plans for natural disasters, chemical releases, epidemics, and biological events, many are not as prepared for other types of disasters, such as explosive or
Tenet settles Katrina lawsuit on emergency unpreparedness for $25M
In a lesson for hospitals everywhere, Tenet Healthcare Corporation's settlement for $25 million was preliminarily approved yesterday, to conclude a class-action lawsuit in which patients and families
Katrina lessons still flooding in
Even as they watch the devastation in Japan following last week's earthquakes, U.S. hospitals are still learning lessons from the fallout of 2005's Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Some big ones
HHS agenda looks to IT for self-management, patient engagement
HHS' newest 10-year health goals for the country, Healthy People 2020, focus on prevention, shared decisionmaking between patients and providers, personalized self-management of health conditions
Learning optimism from disaster
There is something very poignant about the opportunity to hear Scott Cowen, president of Tulane University, speak about his experience facing the devastation that was Hurricane Katrina in person, and
Financial conflict claims EMS director
Hurricane Katrina didn't topple the head of New Orleans' emergency medical services system, but an apparent conflict of interest did. Dr. Jullette Saussy resigned from her post last week, shortly
New Orleans hospitals still recovering from Katrina
Five years after Hurricane Katrina barreled its way through New Orleans, flooding hospitals, the healthcare industry has yet to recover, WAPT reports. More than 80,000 residents in eastern New
Disaster recovery efforts for hospitals the focus of new AHRQ guides
Between a lack of emergency preparedness shown at hospitals during 2005's Hurricane Katrina and more recent findings that many California hospitals might not survive an earthquake without major
Doctors, nurses increasingly affected by mass layoffs at hospitals
With patient safety already slipping in the midst of the current recession, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showing that clinical staff is being affected by mass layoffs now gives U.S.
