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Kirk B. Jensen | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Author, Educator |
| Years active | 1998-present |
Kirk B. Jensen is an American author and an educator. [1]
Jensen began his medical career as the medical director of the emergency department at Memorial Hospital in Michigan City, Indiana. In 1998 Jensen became a faculty member of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. [2]
Jensen served on the expert panel and site examination team of Urgent Matters, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative focusing on elimination of ED and Hospital crowding and preservation of the health care safety net, and presents expert insights through the George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences. [3]
From 2004 to present Jensen has served as Chief Medical Officer for BestPractices. [4] [5]
He also served as coach for the Studer Group, guiding individuals and healthcare organizations through specifics of operations and flow including components of emergency department front door flow, throughput, and hospital-wide flow. [6]
Jensen began an association with EmCare in 2011 as an Executive Vice President, and in 2015 was named as the company's Chief Innovation Officer. [7]
Jensen has won the American College of Emergency Physicians’ Speaker of the Year 2010-2011. [8] He also won James A. Hamilton Award 2008 for "Leadership for Smooth Patient Flow" [9] and in 2014 was awarded Urgent Matters, Blue Jay Consulting, and Schumacher Group Emergency Care Innovation of the Year 2014. [10]
Triage is the process of determining the priority of patients' treatments by the severity of their condition or likelihood of recovery with and without treatment. This rations patient treatment efficiently when resources are insufficient for all to be treated immediately; influencing the order and priority of emergency treatment, emergency transport, or transport destination for the patient.
Emergency medicine is the medical specialty concerned with the care of illnesses or injuries requiring immediate medical attention. Emergency physicians care for unscheduled and undifferentiated patients of all ages. As first-line providers, their primary responsibility is to initiate resuscitation and stabilization and to start investigations and interventions to diagnose and treat illnesses in the acute phase. Emergency physicians generally practise in hospital emergency departments, pre-hospital settings via emergency medical services, and intensive care units, but may also work in primary care settings such as urgent care clinics. Sub-specializations of emergency medicine include disaster medicine, medical toxicology, point-of-care ultrasonography, critical care medicine, hyperbaric medicine, sports medicine, palliative care, or aerospace medicine.
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A medical scribe is a person, or paraprofessional, who specializes in charting physician-patient encounters in real time, such as during medical examinations. They also locate information and patients for physicians and complete forms needed for patient care. Depending on which area of practice the scribe works in, the position may also be called clinical scribe, ER scribe or ED scribe, or just scribe. A scribe is trained in health information management and the use of health information technology to support it. A scribe can work on-site or remotely from a HIPAA-secure facility. Medical scribes who work at an off-site location are known as virtual medical scribes.
Healthcare CRM, also known as Healthcare Relationship Management, is a broadly used term for a Customer relationship management system, or CRM, used in healthcare.
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Keith Malcolm Willett is Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery at the University of Oxford.
Kesetebirhan (Kesete) Admasu is a medical doctor and public health specialist who was the Minister of Health of Ethiopia between November 2012 and 2016. It was reported that he left the government after declining a new non-health cabinet ministerial portfolio during a cabinet reshuffle in November 2016. He was appointed as Minister of Health in October 2012 after serving as State Minister in charge of Health Programs from 2010 to October 2012. He is known for his critical role in implementing the health sector reform of the country when he served as Director General, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention between 2007 and 2010. Dr Kesete has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership in February-2017.
Social Emergency Medicine is an emerging branch of Emergency Medicine that explores the interplay of social forces and the emergency care system, and how these act together to affect the health of individuals and their communities. Organized in 2009, the field has gained wider acceptance within the larger specialty of emergency medicine. Initiatives in social emergency medicine include research, direct service and advocacy aimed at addressing the social determinants of health.
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A medical surge occurs when "patient volumes challenge or exceed a hospital's servicing capacity"—often but not always tied to high volume of patients in a hospital's emergency room. Medical surges can occur after a mass casualty incident. In a poll by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) in May 2018, 93% of doctors said their US emergency rooms were not fully prepared for medical surges. 6% said their emergency departments were fully prepared.
