Healthcare IT, or HIT, is more than just the IT team that sets up a hospital’s computers. They are essential to the fabric of just about every healthcare system in the world. That stated, IT Team, no need to get worked up, this post isn’t exactly for you (though valuable information is present)....
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This article completes our series of "Warehouse Audit Survival Guides" published in Dickson Insights. If you missed our guides on the Pharmaceutical and Food industries, you can find them by clicking here and here.
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Vaccine regulations, specifically for Vaccine for Children (VFC) providers, are updated more frequently than most industry regulations that Dickson comes into contact with. The Center for Disease Control (CDC), State Vaccination Programs, Local Health Departments, and VFC program all have a stake...
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While lagging a little behind Silicon Valley, hospitals around the United States are transitioning to electronic records, more advanced IT infrastructure, and cloud computing. What does that mean for nurses? A lot. Much more than we can fit into this one page article. However, one portion of change...
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If vaccines are not kept cold, they will become less potent. This is a statement that is of course true, and that has been reiterated consistently and frequently by the CDC to those hospitals and clinics that are in the VFC (Vaccines for Children) Program. Keeping vaccines cold may seem as simple...
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The Vaccines for Children (VFC) Program is a federally funded program, overseen by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and the Center for Disease Control, created to get children whose families can't afford vaccines, vaccines. The VFC Program works like this: the CDC buys and...
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