Effective this month, new rules from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education limit medical residents to 80-hour work weeks and 24 consecutive hours on duty. The new rules will likely create staffing headaches for many institutions that rely heavily on residents to provide clinician coverage for their patients.
Cascades East Family Practice Center in Klamath Falls, Ore., may have found a partial answer to its potential staffing problem by using PDAs to improve efficiency and patient safety with MData from MercuryMD. Read the full article in Health Data Management here.
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