This study was conducted to compare real-time voice recognition software to a traditional transcription service. Two emergency department (ED) physicians dictated 47 charts using a voice dictation software program and a traditional transcription service. Accuracy, word per minute dictation time and turnaround time were calculated from the data. The transcription service used in our study was mo...

In chemical manufacturing and petroleum refining, large-scale maintenance activities must be conducted on a regular basis. Entire production units are shut down for disassembly and comprehensive inspection and renewal. Such a process is called Shutdown and Turnaround (or turnaround for short). It is an essential process but causes high out-of-service cost. Therefore a good schedule for the turn...

This study examines the extent and reasons for the downturn in IS/IT program enrollments since 2001. The current enrollment cycle will be compared with earlier enrollment cycles since the beginning of the modern MIS program in the 1970s. Several notable “mega-trends” that affect the enrollment cycle are suggested, and based on these “mega-trends” and other reasons underlying the downturn, innov...

Abstract This study proposes an empirically grounded theory of how school reform implementation relates to effectiveness, useful for developing and studying many approaches both in the U.S. abroad, also assessing policymakers implementers might leverage various aspects create effective improvement models at scale. Guided by a new framework that links Bryk colleagues’ (2010) five essential suppo...

The Axial Separation Module (ASM), which separates whole-blood specimens serially in Axial Process Containers (APC), was evaluated for clinical performance at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center (UVA HSC) in a community-based outpatient laboratory (North Ridge Clinic). We hypothesized that moving the task of blood separation to point of care would reduce specimen turnaround time w...

OBJECTIVE To see if, in the diagnosis of infant infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Zambia, turnaround times could be reduced by using an automated notification system based on mobile phone texting. METHODS In Zambia's Southern province, dried samples of blood from infants are sent to regional laboratories to be tested for HIV with polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Turnaround ...

PURPOSE Prolonged patient wait times in the outpatient oncology infusion unit indicated a need to streamline phlebotomy processes by using existing resources to decrease laboratory turnaround time and improve patient wait time. METHODS Using the DMAIC (define, measure, analyze, improve, control) method, a project to streamline phlebotomy processes within the outpatient oncology infusion unit ...