In the US, hospitals are confident enough to print ‘39.95’ on the bill for holding your newborn
They are so sure about their system they don't mind explicitly spelling out that they charge $40 for literally handing over the baby and waiting for a few minutes
Because they don't even consider that absurd anymore
@stux It's near impossible to go to a US #hospital with as lawyer and an accountant by your side 24/7. I was charged 400.00 a day, for 4 days, for "hospitality". Ridiculous.
An immunocompromised person in my family got COVID for the first time, AT THE HOSPITAL because they stopped requiring ANY PRECAUTIONS. No masks, no nothing.
They can't avoid the hospital so that means they'll just have to roll the dice each time they go?
What a cruel world.
Immunocompromised means the vaccine doesn't work as well. So what the current US policy says is equivalent to "you're on your own" good luck! 😡😡😡
@timnitGebru#Hospital acquired #infections have always been fairly common. Poor hand washing is one reason. But masks are such a simple thing to include to help protect against -- not just #COVID but other airborne diseases like #measles that are making a come back.
My interpretation of this article is that hospitals, clinics, insurance companies, etc. need to get links and repost icons for Facebook, Twitter, etc. OFF their websites. If you work for a big institution -- talk to your marketing team as they are used to doing this routinely. If you are a small provider, look at your website -- especially if you created it years ago back when no one thought of the problems and you just wanted some traffic.
TITLE: FTC, HHS warn health providers not to use tracking tech in websites, apps
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) sent a joint letter to about 130 hospital systems and telehealth providers Thursday, warning of security risks posed by tracking technologies such as the Meta/Facebook Pixel and Google Analytics.
<https://therecord.media/apps-website-tracking-healthcare-ftc-hhs-warning>
#security #healthcare #doctors #itsecurity #hacking #doxxing #psychotherapy #securitynews #psychotherapist #mentalhealth #psychiatry #hospital #socialwork #datasecurity #webbeacons #cookies #HIPAA #privacy #datanalytics #healthcaresecurity #healthitsecurity #patientrecords #infosec @infosec@a.gup.pe #telehealth #netneutrality #socialengineering #marketing #seo #therapy
#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist@a.gup.pe @psychotherapists@a.gup.pe @psychology@a.gup.pe @socialpsych@a.gup.pe @socialwork@a.gup.pe @psychiatry@a.gup.pe
@infosec@a.gup.pe #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare
Also, no website should be using Google Analytics if it intends to be accessible to the poor, a population which is often coterminous with the disabled and chronically ill: Google Analytics is computationally intensive enough of the user's browser, that for users with old hardware, it can bring any website it's used on to a crawl, or make it not load at all. Google Analytics makes your website covertly classist.
And for what? Are you actually checking your analytics data? You actually doing development work on your EHR? Running A/B tests on your web presence?
Use a log analyzer for analytics and leave your patients alone.
Google Analytics is now a topic of conversation on the Baltimore Therapist listserv.
Your point about classism is well taken.
QUESTION: Am I correct in assuming that Google Analytics is likely to be harvesting client-side data and storing it? Asking for an educated guess as we might not know...
For the less-than-tech-saavy medical professionals and therapists in the room -- what log analyzers might they ask for when they speak to their marketing and IT teams about this issue?
"All pregnant women are in danger’: protests in Poland after expectant mother dies in hospital.
Ombudsman rules that #hospital in #NowyTarg failed to tell #DorotaLalik, 33, that..."
"...her life was in danger and could [have] be[en] saved by an #abortion"
“But not everyone realised that 👉if you’re #pregnant and you go to a #Polish#hospital you might not leave alive👈. That you have to go prepared; you need to 👉have a number to a lawyer and contacts with the media ready,👈 and you have to keep fighting and arguing and not believe a single word anyone says because you might not stay alive."
Happy to announce that I’m back in my hotel after a bout of #Decompression#Sickness (#DCS) AKA the #Bends at the weekend. We think it was the culmination of six consecutive dives over three days between 38m and 41m on the MV #Zenobia in #Larnaca in #Cyprus. Was transferred to the #hyperbaric#chamber in #Paphos General #Hospital for three chamber sessions and two nights stay. Sincere #gratitude to all the hospital and chamber staff who made me welcome and took care of me.
Eternally grateful for mentors who make time, space, and bandwidth for juniors.
Essentially I just had coffee with one and cried, but it was a good cry. It’s catharsis and gratitude and the fact that I am safe under their care that I can let myself feel what I naturally feel.
It’s lived experience and not conjecture that drives my research in mentoring dynamics and #professionalidentityformation .
Relatives in #hospital are the worst. Misguided by some negative #NHS Fb post, they think they know better than the nurses or doctors. Ignorant, stupid, and plain rude.
This building was built from 1901 to 1904 by the "Allgemeine Knappschaftsverein" Bochum as a hospital for the treatment of lung diseases and especially tuberculosis.
Until 1986, lung diseases of miners from Bochum and the Ruhr area were treated here.
It is estimated that about 50,000 miners were treated here in 82 years.
Today the building is abandoned.
Situated in the middle of the forest, it is so quiet today that you can sense the ghosts of the people who were treated here for 82 years - a ghostly and almost mystical atmosphere.
This building was built from 1901 to 1904 by the "Allgemeine Knappschaftsverein" Bochum as a hospital for the treatment of lung diseases and especially tuberculosis. Until 1986, lung diseases of miners from Bochum and the Ruhr area were treated here. It is estimated that about 50,000 miners were treated here in 82 years. Today the building is abandoned. Situated in the middle of the forest, it is so quiet today that you can sense the ghosts of the people who were treated here for 82 years - a ghostly and almost mystical atmosphere. 2023/07/30 Christoph Koester | #Meschede
This building was built from 1901 to 1904 by the "Allgemeine Knappschaftsverein" Bochum as a hospital for the treatment of lung diseases and especially tuberculosis. Until 1986, lung diseases of miners from Bochum and the Ruhr area were treated here. It is estimated that about 50,000 miners were treated here in 82 years. Today the building is abandoned. Situated in the middle of the forest, it is so quiet today that you can sense the ghosts of the people who were treated here for 82 years - a ghostly and almost mystical atmosphere. 2023/07/30 Christoph Koester | #Meschede
This building was built from 1901 to 1904 by the "Allgemeine Knappschaftsverein" Bochum as a hospital for the treatment of lung diseases and especially tuberculosis. Until 1986, lung diseases of miners from Bochum and the Ruhr area were treated here. It is estimated that about 50,000 miners were treated here in 82 years. Today the building is abandoned. Situated in the middle of the forest, it is so quiet today that you can sense the ghosts of the people who were treated here for 82 years - a ghostly and almost mystical atmosphere. 2023/07/30 Christoph Koester | #Meschede
Dozens of drugs made by Pfizer Inc. may be more difficult for hospitals to purchase because they were manufactured at the company’s North Carolina plant that was damaged by a tornado last week.
Sixty-five different formats and formulations of products including the anesthetic lidocaine; the painkiller morphine; and other basic hospital medicines “may experience continued or new supply disruptions in the near-term,” New York-based Pfizer said Friday in an email to customers. The email lists several different dosages or formulations of at least 32 drugs, plus two sizes of empty glass vials. Forty-six of the products were already in short supply as of Sunday, according to the US Food and Drug Administration.
Morocco World News: In a surprise visit to the regional #Hospital of Driouch, Minister of #Health and Social Protection #KhalidAïtTaleb reprimanded hospital officials and inspected various departments while inquiring about the quality of healthcare services provided to patients.