NY Times Bits story published 2/17/2013 by Steve Lohr Doctors have long been in the high-stakes information management business. They must quickly sort through a patient’s symptoms, comments, test results, records and history to come up with a diagnosis. The physician brings to each diagnostic encounter a storehouse of knowledge and experience, all that he Continue Reading

Emily F. Hamilton, Philip Warrick, G. Eric Knox, Daniel O’Keeffe, Thomas J. Garite   Objective: To determine if the incidence of high contraction (HC) rates and associated decelerations were different in term births with metabolic acidemia (MA) compared to those with normal gases (N) over the last 4 h of labor. Methods: MA included 316 Continue Reading

Mary Veronica Daly, MD, Christina Bender, MSN, Kathryn E. Townsend, JD, Emily F. Hamilton, MD   Objective: We examined outcomes associated with a novel program to identify patients at high risk for shoulder dystocia (SD) with BPI. Study Design: The program included a checklist of key risk factors and a multifactorial algorithm to estimate risk Continue Reading

In the Summer, 2011 issue of MD Advisor, MD Advantage shares the results of a three-year trial of the PeriCALM® Shoulder Screen™ tool, a web-based application to identify mothers at greatest risk of shoulder dystocia. Using PeriCALM Shoulder Screen, MD Advantage’s insured physicians were able to reduce the incidence of shoulder dystocia by 50%, with Continue Reading