Grand rounds to be hosted at the health business blog
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I’m hosting the upcoming Grand Rounds. Please submit your favorite post to me via email. The deadline is Sunday at midnight EDT. There is no theme. (Source: Health Business Blog)
Source: Health Business Blog - May 8, 2008 Category: Health Managers Authors: David E. Williams of the Health business blog Tags: Blogs Announcements Source Type: blogs
Do you trust your blogger?
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Interesting post by Bill Ives, referring to comments by Andrew McAfee at Harvard Business School about Enterprise 2.0, about trusting bloggers, and the role of blogs in business communication. Bill and Andrew and Jessica Lipnack, also cited in the post, are key observers and thought leaders in this arena. Jessica asked yesterday whether email is obsolete. See the last paragraph in a related story on that topic below. (Source: Running a hospital)
Source: Running a hospital - May 8, 2008 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs
Retail meds: pharmacy update and wal-mart price cuts
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Wal-Mart continued its first-mover tactics in health by dropping the price of prescriptions again. This time, the target (sorry for the pun) is maintenance meds which Wal-Mart will price at $10 for 90 days' supply. This move puts Wal-Mart squarely in the pharmacy benefits management (PBM) segment vis-à-vis ExpressScripts, Medco, and the big PBM players. The 3-month mail order med business is the lucrative turf of PBMs. Wal-Mart's first move into this space was in 2006 when the company priced many 30-day scrips at $4, shaking up the industry. I wrote about that market disruption here in January 2008.Wal-Mart will also offe...
Source: Health Populi - May 8, 2008 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs
Podcast interview with dr. michael parkinson, president of the american college of preventive medicine
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Michael D. Parkinson, MD, MPH has had an interesting career. In this podcast interview, Dr. Parkinson describes how his experience as an Air Force physician taught him about how personal health behaviors and organizational culture impact health and health care costs. He explains why he left government service to become Chief Health and Medical Officer with consumer-directed health plan startup Lumenos, where he emphasized prevention and chronic care management. He also discusses his current role as President of the American College of Preventive Medicine.
Parkinson and I discussed the interaction between prevention and cos...
Source: Health Business Blog - May 8, 2008 Category: Health Managers Authors: David E. Williams of the Health business blogdwilliams at mppllc.com Tags: Health plans Entrepreneurs Podcast Source Type: blogs
The cost of ignorance
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Many payers look at 'medical' as a line item and nothing more. This myopia, this failure to look deeper, to try to understand what drives medical, is perhaps the most significant shortcoming in the industry. Many readers will dismiss this... (Source: Managed Care Matters)
Source: Managed Care Matters - May 8, 2008 Category: Health Managers Authors: jpaduda at healthstrategyassoc.com Tags: Workers Comp Source Type: blogs
Podcast interview with dr. jason yap, singapore medicine
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I interviewed Dr. Jason Yap at Consumer Health World in Las Vegas. He is Director of Healthcare Services at the Singapore Tourism Board and part of the multi-agency Singapore Medicine Initiative, the goal of which is to promote, develop and maintain Singapore as an international medical hub.
I first met Jason a year ago and he hosted me on a tour of hospitals in Singapore last summer. We’ve spoken in the past about medical tourism, but in this interview I focused on Singapore’s health care system and the potential lessons for the US.
Singapore spends less than 4 percent of its GDP on health care yet has univers...
Source: Health Business Blog - May 7, 2008 Category: Health Managers Authors: David E. Williams of the Health business blogdwilliams at mppllc.com Tags: Policy and politics International Podcast Source Type: blogs
Employer-based health care erodes u.s. global competition: a new america report
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The world is flat, but American manufacturers have known that since before Tom Friedman published the book on the subject. Globalization means American companies compete with foreign trade partners. The New America Foundation calculates that U.S. manufacturers pay an average of $2.38 an hour for health benefits, while trade partners pay only $0.96 an hour.That's the bottom-line in the Foundation's paper, Employer Health Costs in a Global Economy: A Competitive Disadvantage for U.S. Firms.The percent of payroll devoted to health benefits is about 13% for American manufacturers, and 5% for foreign trade partners.That adds up...
Source: Health Populi - May 7, 2008 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs
More gems from the estes park institute healthcare conference
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Here are a few more tidbits from my Estes Park Institute conference notes:
Collegial Intervention:
The suicide rate for male physicians is 1.5 X higher than the general population.
The suicide rate for female physicians is 2 X higher than the general population.
Collegial intervention programs can help. Develop policies that encourage early intervention by medical staff leaders, and procedures that legally protect their efforts.
Conflict of Interest:
When a member of a voting body has a conflict of interest with regard to a matter under consideration, not only should the individual refrain from voting on the m...
Source: MSSPNexus Blog - May 7, 2008 Category: Health Managers Authors: Rita Schwab Source Type: blogs
Ingenix can't catch a break
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Ingenix has had a tough few months. The latest injury comes in the form of a suit filed by a Connecticut man, seeking class action status based on allegations that the United HealthCare sub engaged in an "alleged conspiracy in... (Source: Managed Care Matters)
Source: Managed Care Matters - May 7, 2008 Category: Health Managers Authors: jpaduda at healthstrategyassoc.com Tags: Manage Care - Group Health Source Type: blogs
Midcourse lessons from spirit
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Here are some comments made after today's BIDMC SPIRIT training session (see some of the participants above). We are now winding down on training the first 600 people. As you can see, people quickly get to the core issues, problems, and opportunities. This is about where we expected to be at this point in the process. After all, we are introducing new concepts of empowerment, problem identification, and problem solving -- and sometimes people are confused or nervous. The suggestions from these trainees are exceedingly helpful. But look, too, at the last comment: Key messages are starting to come through. Then, see a bit of...
Source: Running a hospital - May 6, 2008 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs
Grand rounds is up at suture for a living
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Check out the latest edition of Grand Rounds, hosted at Suture for a Living. I’ll be hosting next week so feel free to email your submissions. (Source: Health Business Blog)
Source: Health Business Blog - May 6, 2008 Category: Health Managers Authors: David E. Williams of the Health business blog Tags: Blogs Announcements Source Type: blogs
New mom? check this.
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It turns out that new mothers are particularly at risk for back injuries for a while after childbirth because of hormonal changes. Kathleen Shillue, one of our physical therapists, has prepared this short video called "Handling the baby without hurting yourself," to help people avoid injury. Please check it out. (Source: Running a hospital)
Source: Running a hospital - May 6, 2008 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs
A profile of silver surfers: don't discount older web-searchers
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There's a growing cadre of older people online, and they're an attractive demographic, according to Focalyst, a joint venture of the AARP and Millward Brown, a market research and branding company. The researchers found that "matures" spend 750,000,000 minutes a day on the Internet (sounds like a song from Rent--the AARP version of 525,600 Minutes).Focalyst calls the group of people age 62 and over "Matures Online." The Insight Report: April 2008 finds that matures are just as likely to be persuaded by an Internet ad as younger consumers. Is this what Martha would consider a "good thing" or not-so-good? Well, it is what it...
Source: Health Populi - May 6, 2008 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs
Podcast interview with don r. powell, phd, ceo of the american institute for preventive medicine
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I’m at the Consumer Health World Conference in Las Vegas where I spoke today with Don Powell, PhD, President and CEO of the American Institute for Preventive Medicine, a for-profit wellness and demand management company that is celebrating its 25th year in business.
Don and I spoke about how the wellness field has evolved over time, how employers think about the benefits of wellness programs, and about the kinds of customization and integration that are required to achieve success. (Source: Health Business Blog)
Source: Health Business Blog - May 6, 2008 Category: Health Managers Authors: David E. Williams of the Health business blogdwilliams at mppllc.com Tags: Entrepreneurs Source Type: blogs
Dnv healthcare seeks deemed status from cms
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In 2006 this blog commented on the application for CMS deemed status by Ohio-based TUVHS. We didn't hear much about the application after that, but now we know that TUVHS was bought by DNV (Det Norske Veritas), an international certification body, and an application for deemed status has now been submitted to CMS by DNV Healthcare.
From the DNV Web Site:
DNV continues its expansion and focus on healthcare through the formation of DNV Healthcare Inc. and by acquiring TUVHS, the US based organization providing hospital accreditation to the NIAHOSM program.
This latest development fully supports DNV’s initiative t...
Source: MSSPNexus Blog - May 6, 2008 Category: Health Managers Authors: Rita Schwab Source Type: blogs
Health care reform - what are the chances?
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Pretty good. I'd say better than 50:50; probably 60:40 or better that there will be major reform in the next Congress. Here's why. Sen Ron Wyden's (D OR) Healthy Americans Act has six D and six R Senate cosponsors, including... (Source: Managed Care Matters)
Source: Managed Care Matters - May 6, 2008 Category: Health Managers Authors: jpaduda at healthstrategyassoc.com Tags: Health Policy Source Type: blogs
Podcast interview with david hom, chairman of the center for health value innovation
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I’m at Consumer Health World in Las Vegas where I spoke today with David Hom, chairman of the board of the Center for Health Value Innovation.
David and I spoke about value based insurance design and health care consumerism. Hom would like to see consumers become CEOs of their own care and he believes we are at the cusp of using information technology effectively to enable consumers to adhere to their therapies.
The Center’s approach represents a clear departure from business as usual, but the concepts are strongly rooted in improving the existing employer-based model rather than overthrowing it. (Source: Health Business Blog)
Source: Health Business Blog - May 5, 2008 Category: Health Managers Authors: David E. Williams of the Health business blogdwilliams at mppllc.com Tags: Health plans Source Type: blogs
Two great tastes that taste great together
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I’m at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas where I chaired a session entitled Facilitating the Patient Experience in International Medical Travel as part of Consumer Health World.
At the hotel I noticed an amusing twist on the usual no smoking sign. It read: “Please refrain from smoking except in gaming areas.” I guess one good habit deserves another. (Source: Health Business Blog)
Source: Health Business Blog - May 5, 2008 Category: Health Managers Authors: David E. Williams of the Health business blog Tags: Amusements Source Type: blogs
Salty taste in the mouth: what causes it? a case study in “google diagnosis”
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Thanks to Mickey for this guest post.
I’ve had a salty taste in my mouth on and off for years, but in the past week it has gotten much worse. I thought this was a perfect subject for “Google Diagnosis”. Google Diagnosis doesn’t work very well for combinations of different complaints, but it can work well for a single complaint that hasn’t yet been collected into databases if the person has time to wade through a bunch of search results. This seemed perfect for figuring out a salty taste, and the logical starting point was to search the Web for “salty taste”. This leads to a variet...
Source: Health Business Blog - May 5, 2008 Category: Health Managers Authors: David E. Williams of the Health business blog Tags: e-health Patients Source Type: blogs
Teamwork on central line infections
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I received this wonderful report from Blanche Murphy, Nurse Coordinator for the Central Line Service, who knows of my interest in eliminating central line infections. Be sure to check out the site she mentions for an excellent educational tool.Dear Paul,I want to share with you a very positive recent experience that I have had at the medical center. Knowing how much you believe in team spirit, I feel that my story is a wonderful example of many people from several areas of the medical center coming together to produce a resource enabling our patients to have safer and knowledge based care. Although many of the functions we...
Source: Running a hospital - May 5, 2008 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs
The virtues of virtual visits
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There is more evidence that remote health care can improve health outcomes. Say 'hello' to the Virtual Integrated Practice (VIP).The term was coined by the Rush-Presbyterian Medical Center, where a team has been refining the VIP model for the past four years. The VIP's objective is to improve chronic disease management for older people by deploying an interdisciplinary team using communications technology. The main challenges in primary care for VIP's target patient population are:• Multiple chronic problems• Polypharmacy• Physical disability• Functional impairment, and• Economic stressors.The Holy Grail here is ...
Source: Health Populi - May 5, 2008 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs
Appropriate, or too exclusionary?
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I received this note last week during a BIDMC bone marrow registration drive:Hello Paul, I'm writing to let you know that I really felt like a second class citizen today, when I went to register at the Bone Marrow Registry drive and was turned away because I am a gay male. I've been in a monogamous relationship for many years and when I read that if you have sex with men you cannot be a donor, I was really upset. I asked for a clarification from one of the folks there and they did uphold the Red Cross blood donation restrictions. I was not the only person turned away today. I do feel better after writing this email to yo...
Source: Running a hospital - May 5, 2008 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs
Cash on demand: the future of outpatient services?
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by Nick Jacobs
My first health care administration job began in 1988. It was a warm September morning when we met around a large table to examine the financial report of the hospital. The CFO reported out the income from operations, and, although I was new to this particular field, it struck me that all we were looking at was the inpatient report. When I asked where the outpatient information was, he replied, "Oh, we don't have any way of capturing that information." To which I asked, "Isn't that at least 50% of our business?" The answer of course was positive. It was at that very moment that the history of health care ma...
Source: hospital impact - May 5, 2008 Category: Health Managers Authors: hospitaltony Source Type: blogs
Arranging that holiday
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As little as 10 years ago who would ever have considered arranging their holiday / vacation themselves? At the very least we started off with a brochure, usually obtained from a travel agent (or occasionally requested by phone or a little form cut out of a newspaper). Then we visited our travel agent and spent an hour or two there while they checked availability, got us to decide on flights etc. and tried to sell us their own travel insurance. I do remember booking a holiday direct with a holiday company on the phone about 12 years ago, but for many people that was just not something they did. This kind of process is fine ...
Source: Life in the NHS - May 5, 2008 Category: Health Managers Authors: Julie Tags: Holidays and fun Homelife Source Type: blogs
Agents who get it
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I'm at the annual meeting of the Institute of WorkComp Professionals in Asheville, NC today. A very impressive group; what is notable is these folks actually do 'get it'; they do understand that workers comp is not just a spreadsheet... (Source: Managed Care Matters)
Source: Managed Care Matters - May 5, 2008 Category: Health Managers Authors: jpaduda at healthstrategyassoc.com Tags: Workers Comp Source Type: blogs
Oo, oo, toody!
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In a February 11, 1962, episode of Car 54, Where are You?, entitled "Toody and the Art World", the visual joke centers on a modern art painting that is styled "Lower Manhattan At Sunset From The New Jersey Side."I don't remember the painting exactly, but this recent shot of Boston at night as I was flying into Logan Airport reminds me somehow of it. (Source: Running a hospital)
Source: Running a hospital - May 4, 2008 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs
Don’t believe everything you read (about health 2.0)
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Health 2.0 is a hot topic, so no wonder a variety of companies are jumping on the bandwagon. Yesterday, iHealthBeat.org ran the story Social Networking Site Lets Patients Share Stories of Misdiagnosis based on an article in Wednesday’s HealthcareIT News Company launches ‘medical misdiagnosis’ social networking site. According to the HealthcareIT News piece:
Patients who have endured medical misdiagnoses have another social networking Web site where they can share their experiences.
Premerus, a Nashville, Tenn-based company that claims to be the nation’s only “diagnostic management” firm,...
Source: Health Business Blog - May 2, 2008 Category: Health Managers Authors: David E. Williams of the Health business blog Tags: e-health Source Type: blogs
Blackberry jam
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Well over a year ago, I wrote about going cold turkey on my Blackberry. I didn't realize I was a trend-setter. Here's a lead from a story by Jackie Noblett in the Boston Business Journal entitled, "Blackberry Backlash: Reader poll reflects growing discontent with overuse":There is a budding movement to squish the BlackBerry. Fed up with the constant tip-tapping and impromptu interruptions in staff meetings and conferences, the local business community is lashing back against the device, known in some circles as the "CrackBerry" due to its addictive powers. Some Boston executives have gone so far as banning them outright. (...
Source: Running a hospital - May 2, 2008 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs
Health plan illiteracy, or how not to benefit from the benefit
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Health plan illiteracy is alive and well, according to J.D. Power and Associates. The consumer market research firm's 2008 National Health Insurance Plan Study finds that 1 in two plan members don't understand their plan.In this second year of the survey, J.D. Power notes that, as consumers understand the benefits of their Benefit, their satisfaction with the plan increases. Thus, there is a virtuous cycle that happens between a plan and an enrollee when communication is clear and understood.J.D. Power looked at member satisfaction in 107 health plans throughout the U.S. in terms of 7 key metrics: coverage and benefits; ch...
Source: Health Populi - May 2, 2008 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs
Weather and recovery from it - the hot thing at rims
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the new big thing at RIMS this year seemed to be weather; the prediction of it (both long and short term forecasting), and the closely related business of disaster recovery. There were several vendors marketing sophisticated technology that ostensibly enables... (Source: Managed Care Matters)
Source: Managed Care Matters - May 2, 2008 Category: Health Managers Authors: jpaduda at healthstrategyassoc.com Source Type: blogs
Change of shift is up at life in the nhs
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Change of Shift, the nursing blog carnival, is up at Life in the NHS. (Source: Health Business Blog)
Source: Health Business Blog - May 1, 2008 Category: Health Managers Authors: David E. Williams of the Health business blog Tags: Blogs Announcements Source Type: blogs
Medical humanities blog hosts health wonk review
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Check out the latest Health Wonk Review at Medical Humanities Blog, hosted by fellow Wesleyan Cardinal Daniel Goldberg. (Source: Health Business Blog)
Source: Health Business Blog - May 1, 2008 Category: Health Managers Authors: David E. Williams of the Health business blog Tags: Blogs Announcements Source Type: blogs
Just another day of surgery
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I shared a podium today at a Boston University continuing medical education symposium with Linda K. Kenney, founder of Medically Induced Trauma Support Services, or MITSS. Her story and message were riveting.On November 18, 1999, Linda went in for orthopaedic surgery on her ankle. By mistake, some of the nerve blocking medication went into her bloodstream during her pre-op preparation, causing a major seizure and full cardiac arrest. She woke up to find that her chest had been cracked open, where the doctors had performed open heart surgery to save her life. Later, someone lied to her and told her that the problem had been...
Source: Running a hospital - May 1, 2008 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs
Welcome third year medical students!
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This is the first year of a new educational approach for third year medical students at Harvard Medical School. Instead of taking clinical rotations at the variety of Harvard teaching hospitals (BIDMC, Brigham and Women's, MGH, etc), the students will spend their entire year in just one hospital. We welcomed our first class today. Here are some of them. Meet me on Facebook, ladies and gentlemen! (Source: Running a hospital)
Source: Running a hospital - May 1, 2008 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs
American voters believe that health care is a matter of human dignity
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American voters are overwhelmingly paying attention to presidential candidates' positions on health care, according to a poll published by the Catholic Health Association of the United States (CHA). CHA released the survey as part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Cover The Uninsured Week, in which CHA has participated since the effort's inception.After the big issue of national security -- terrorism, Iraq -- voters point to jobs and the economy (40%) and health insurance (21%) as the top two domestic issues of highest priority for the next president. This prioritization is consistent with that reported out of the Ka...
Source: Health Populi - May 1, 2008 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs
Change of shift: volume 2, number 22
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Welcome to the May Day edition of Change of Shift where we will be exploring the different origins of this day across the world and what is more linking (sometimes tenuously) to some great nursing (and medical) blogs along the way. Sean from Nurse Sean (dot) com set the bar extremely high in the last edition with his tour around Europe, so lets see if we can go some way to matching his standards (do you sense a competitive edge here?)
There are two distinct themes or origins for May Day which will become clear in the fullness of time, and it gives me the chance to start off with some of the more light hearted and frivolou...
Source: Life in the NHS - May 1, 2008 Category: Health Managers Authors: Julie Tags: Change of Shift Nursing Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
The role of senior leadership in credentialing, clinical privileging, and peer review
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Effective, thorough practitioner credentialing, clinical privileging, and professional peer review are vital components of safe patient care. The importance of these complex functions is being reinforced this week at the Estes Park Healthcare Leadership conference.
This conference attracts senior executive, board, and medical staff leaders from hospitals around the country. Program topics include strategic planning, financing, legislation, technology, patient experience, medical staff relations, and yes, credentialing, privileging, and peer review.
Sessions led by Charlotte Jefferies and Linda H...
Source: MSSPNexus Blog - May 1, 2008 Category: Health Managers Authors: Rita Schwab Source Type: blogs
What a social worker does . . . and feels
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Each year, we give out the Bernice K. Snyder Award for Excellence in Social Work, and this year the recipient was Sarah Porell. In a previous post, I have talked about the essential role of social workers in the hospital. Sarah's acceptance speech, though, was a marvelous "job description" of what a social worker does, along with the doubts and joys associated therewith. Here are excerpts:I feel like the work we get to do is incredibly privileged, sacred work. To be present to people in their most vulnerable moments is a privilege I pray I never take for granted or stop learning from. And I have to say, quite honestly, tha...
Source: Running a hospital - April 30, 2008 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs
The growth engine continues to rev
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I wrote last year about the growth imperative in the health care sector. It continues unabated, as noted in two stories by Tom Palmer in today's Boston Globe. The Longwood area remains an engine of economic growth in the city and regional economy, with tremendous growth in employment and ancillary spin-offs from the clinical and research functions of the hospitals. This, in part, is the other side of the story of the high cost of health care. I am not offering it as an excuse for those cost increases, but mainly to remind folks that there is a benefit associated with that cost. (Source: Running a hospital)
Source: Running a hospital - April 30, 2008 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs
40 maxims for board members of health care organizations
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Dennis Pointer, a governance expert and professor at the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of Washington, has authored a helpful e-book for directors of non-profit health care organizations. You can download the 43-page document for free.
Navigating the Boardroom, 40 Maxims… Things You Must Know and Do to Be a Great Director is organized in a simple format. Each maxim is stated in a few words, e.g., “Understand board topography” and then explained with a few paragraphs, anecdotes and the occasional illustration. At the end of each maxim is a set of bullet-pointed “dire...
Source: Health Business Blog - April 30, 2008 Category: Health Managers Authors: David E. Williams of the Health business blog Tags: Policy and politics Research Source Type: blogs
2nd annual diabetesmine design challenge is underway
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Check out Diabetes Mine, where the 2nd Annual DiabetesMine Design Challenge is getting underway. A year ago, blogger Amy Tenderich posted an Open Letter to Steve Jobs asking him to apply the consumer design genius that brought us the iPod, Mac and iPhone to the fertile area of diabetes devices. That letter sparked a variety of conversations, ideas, and publicity.
This year Amy decided to formalize the process into a competition, and in doing so she’s taken things up several notches:
She has enlisted MedGadget as co-host, and attracted support from IDEO and Cory and Justin Oringer
There are cash prizes and other indu...
Source: Health Business Blog - April 30, 2008 Category: Health Managers Authors: David E. Williams of the Health business blog Tags: Devices Announcements Patients Source Type: blogs
Is the health index a misery index?
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It's a 50/50 America again. This time, half of us are thriving, and half of us are struggling.News of that Great American Chasm is brought to you by the Gallup-Healthways Wellbeing Index. I wrote about The Gallup-Healthways Wellbeing Index in March here when the project was first announced. The profile of the collective American mind-body-spirit was unveiled yesterday based on the poll's first 100,000 interviews.It's not a pretty picture.According to the survey's definition, people who are thriving:having basic needs met (food, clothing, shelter)earn higher incomeshave lower burdens of diseasereport fewer sick daysenjoy be...
Source: Health Populi - April 30, 2008 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs
Estes park healthcare conference - orlando
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The 2008 Estes Park Healthcare Leadership conference is all about discontinuous change. Continuous change, as it has been explained over the past few days here in Orlando, can be predicted and projected. Discontinuous change occurs when future direction does not follow historical patterns. In other words, the future of healthcare cannot be predicted with any degree of certainty.
Well that makes strategic planning simple, now doesn't it? The experts gathered here recommend that organization leaders participate in "what if" discussions and create multiple potential scenarios.
...
Source: MSSPNexus Blog - April 30, 2008 Category: Health Managers Authors: Rita Schwab Source Type: blogs
Medcor's value
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I had a chance to spend more time with the Medcor folks this morning at RIMS, and liked what I saw. They've been doing the combo first report of injury (or most of it)/nurse triage/network direction work for ten years... (Source: Managed Care Matters)
Source: Managed Care Matters - April 30, 2008 Category: Health Managers Authors: jpaduda at healthstrategyassoc.com Tags: Workers Comp Source Type: blogs
Trans-border icu
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Physicians and nurses in a Delaware command center will monitor intensive care unit (ICU) patients in six Maryland hospitals as part of the Maryland eCare initiative. From the Washington Post:
The program, funded with a $3 million grant, “allows us to provide the same high level of care at 2 in the morning as we provide at 2 in the afternoon,” said Maryland eCare Director Marc T. Zubrow, director of critical care medicine at Wilmington’s Christiana Care Health System, where the critical care doctors will be based. “It’s about crisis prevention rather than crisis response.”
A video camera...
Source: Health Business Blog - April 29, 2008 Category: Health Managers Authors: David E. Williams of the Health business blog Tags: e-health International Hospitals Source Type: blogs
A new code of conduct
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May 1st sees the launch of a new code of conduct for nurses. Often ridiculed and undermined, some people who frequent the blogsphere seem to imagine that nurses are just people who do their best to undermine doctors, act as if they couldn’t care less and who generally are too grand to get their latex gloves dirty (supposing they aren’t allergic to them), In my experience nothing could be further from the truth. Nurses in 2008 are stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea. On one hand they are meant to be caring individuals who understand the social and psychological needs of their patients and who know one ...
Source: Life in the NHS - April 29, 2008 Category: Health Managers Authors: Julie Tags: Nursing Source Type: blogs
Plain dealer to live blog global healthcare investing conference
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The Global Healthcare Investing Conference opens in Cleveland tomorrow, April 30. The Cleveland Plain Dealer will liveblog seminars, post audio of interviews with investors and entrepreneurs, and publish breaking news during the two-day conference. Tune in if you have the chance. (Source: Health Business Blog)
Source: Health Business Blog - April 29, 2008 Category: Health Managers Authors: David E. Williams of the Health business blog Tags: Blogs Announcements Source Type: blogs
Food in every language!
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Excuse me if I start to doze off. Our interpreters' annual lunch just happened, and I was "required" to taste everything from several dozen countries around the world. So, I am experiencing an early afternoon need for a siesta.My discovery this year was catchupa, a Cape Verdean dish made by Fernanda (in photo). It has corn, beans, carrots, onions, pork, and other things cooked together for an hour or so. It is one of those comfort foods that makes you remember your childhood, even if you didn't come from Cape Verde! Other items today included a gazillion varieties of rice dishes, types of chicken, polenta, dumplings, cevic...
Source: Running a hospital - April 29, 2008 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs
Healthy work/healthy home
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Each year at this time, Jane Matlaw (shown at right) organizes a series of events at BIDMC to raise consciousness about steps that people can take to be better stewards of the environment. Part of the celebration is the presentation of Environmental Action Awards to people at BIDMC who have made a difference. Today, we presented a special award to Jane herself for leading this effort for 10 years. Congratulations! We also had a special visitor, Ian Bowles, Massachusetts Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs (photo above). He gave a briefing on recent state initiatives in this area and graciously and thoroughly answ...
Source: Running a hospital - April 29, 2008 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs
Grand rounds is up at doc gurley
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Check out Grand Rounds at Doc Gurley. This one is a special Grand Rounds Smack Down edition that is not to be missed. (Source: Health Business Blog)
Source: Health Business Blog - April 29, 2008 Category: Health Managers Authors: David E. Williams of the Health business blog Tags: Amusements Blogs Announcements Source Type: blogs
