By Zach Christiansen of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation on Friday, October 5, 2018. NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana. Electronic medical records, when they were first being promoted in the medical community, were touted for their ability to improve health care. Yet, recent reports and studies indicate that they might not be the magic solution to improved health care that they may have initially seemed to be. Why? According to one doctor writing for the Atlantic, some nursing facilities and doctors continue to rely on paper medical records, other doctors rely on proprietary medical record-keeping technology, and yet others work with electronic records systems that don’t interface well with different systems. What is the result? The doctor writing for......
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October 5th, 2018Preventable Maternal Injuries Abound in the United States
October 5th, 2018By Zach Christiansen of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation on Friday, October 5, 2018. The United States has become the most dangerous country in the developed world for women to give birth, according to a USA TODAY report. This alarming statistic is highlighted in USA TODAY reporter Alison Young’s Hospitals Know How to Protect Mothers. They Just Aren’t Doing It. When compared to Germany, France, and England, there were more than twice as many incidences of maternal death in the United States from 1990 to 2015. In this country every year, more than 50,000 women sustain severe injuries during child birth, and approximately 700 women die, according to Young’s investigation. But these numbers could be greatly reduced......
read moreBirth Center Deliveries: What You Need to Know
October 5th, 2018By Zach Christiansen of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation on Friday, October 5, 2018. BATON ROUGE, Louisiana. Birth centers offer women an alternative to hospital deliveries. These centers often provide women a “home-like” setting in which to give birth, but they also provide the support of midwives and other professionals who can detect emergencies and intervene, if necessary. According to the New York Times, only 6 percent of women who seek to deliver through a birth center receive a C-section, as opposed to the 26% of women who seek to deliver through the hospital. C-sections, though common, carry some serious risks. According to the Mayo Clinic, babies born through C-section are more likely to develop a breathing......
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