1commentAbout Me « Sara Hurley. – I think this is worth a post because it’s an innovative and humane way to recruit people for a research study, very much in the spirit of social media. I received a solicitation to take a survey for potential inclusion in the study on the YouTube channel attached to [...]
0commentsMarch 14th through March 17th: To build a better hospital, Virginia Mason takes lessons from Toyota plants – Nice profile of a hospital that employs LEAN. The comments are not as charitable. The challenge is both to communicate what LEAN is and make sure that the core philosophy of LEAN, respect, is a part of [...]
0commentsFebruary 1st through February 2nd: Failure to Provide Clinicians Useful IT Systems: Opportunities to Leapfrog Current Technologies – A challenge paper from a colleague at IBM Center for Healthcare Management about Human Factors in HIT implementation. See my full blog post on this. The Life Cycle of a Blog Post, From Servers to Spiders to [...]
0commentsPCHIT links for December 26th through December 27th: Early Experiences with Personal Health Records — Halamka et al. 15 (1): 1 — Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association – As reviewed here: http://www.tedeytan.com/2007/12/27/242/ Patient-centered Applications: Use of Information Technology to Promote Disease Management and Wellness. A White Paper by the AMIA Knowledge in Motion [...]
0commentsPatient-Physician E-mail: An Opportunity to Transform Pediatric Health Care Delivery — Rosen and Kwoh 120 (4): 701 — Pediatrics Josh Seidman alerted me to this recently published study of the use of patient-physician e-mail in a smaller pediatric rheumatology practice. The study shows that the state of the art for many practices like this is [...]