Necessary Hospital Technology that is Often Overlooked
As technology has made its way more into healthcare, there are many parts of it that while being extremely important are often overlooked. While many people automatically assume that hospitals seemingly run themselves, the truth is that the best hospitals rely on more and more technological systems in order to run efficiently. Whether it's the latest system for electronic health records or for imaging technology, various factors such as patient safety, competition from other healthcare systems, and cost effectiveness all play a part in determining whether or not hospitals stay competitive in the ever-changing world of heal...
Source: ePharma Summit - March 17, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: #medtech ePharma Health tech HealthTech hospital technology med tech medical device medical technology Source Type: blogs
Clinical Vignettes for LGBT Populations
The Association of American Medical Colleges announces a new resource: Diversity 3.0 Series Clinical Vignettes on aspects of the LGBT and gender nonconforming populations: http://bit.ly/1QFiKA6. These clinical vignettes are a part of a clinical vignette series highlighting various aspects of the health of LGBT and gender nonconforming populations and are designed to give learners the opportunity to analyze clinician-patient communication strategies. The series can be used in a variety of ways from independent learning to small group learning to large group learning. Each clip is generally three-five minutes long with dis...
Source: BHIC - March 9, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Patricia Devine Tags: Minority Health Concerns Source Type: blogs
A long and winding road: improving communication with patients in the NHS
This report warns that poor communication in the NHS has a profound impact on patient care, staff burnout and public funds. It argues that inadequacies in communication are damaging medical care and wasting much-needed NHS resources and estimates that the total cost, in England alone, is likely to be in excess of £1 billion a year. It says that better communication between healthcare professionals and patients can save costs, improve health outcomes and enhance the quality of experience of patients and the professionals who support them.
Report
Marie Curie - press release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 2, 2016 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS finances and productivity NHS measurement and performance Patient involvement, experience and feedback Quality of care and clinical outcomes Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
The Original Manifesto from Doctors 2.0 & You #doctors20
Acccording to Wikipedia, a manifesto is a public declaration of principles and intentions, often political in nature. TheDoctors 2.0& Youmanifesto is not political. It is a collaborative work in progress. Our goal is to identify the ways in which the inclusion of collaborative digital tools and social media platforms can improve care and translate this into the words of a manifesto. Our point of reference, is The Cluetrain Manifesto, a set of 95 theses put forward as a manifesto, or call to action, for all businesses operating within the newly-connected...
Source: Denise Silber's eHealth - February 18, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: Denise Silber Tags: Doctors 2.0 Source Type: blogs
The Original Manifesto from Doctors 2.0 & You #doctors20
Acccording to Wikipedia, a manifesto is a public declaration of principles and intentions, often political in nature. The Doctors 2.0 & You manifesto is not political. It is a collaborative work in progress. Our goal is to identify the ways in which the inclusion of collaborative digital tools and social media platforms can improve care and translate this into the words of a manifesto.
Our point of reference, is The Cluetrain Manifesto, a set of 95 theses put forward as a manifesto, or call to action, for all businesses operating within the newly-con...
Source: Denise Silber's eHealth - February 18, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: Denise Silber Tags: Doctors 2.0 Source Type: blogs
The Original Manifesto from Doctors 2.0 & You #doctors20
Acccording to Wikipedia, a manifesto is a public declaration of principles and intentions, often political in nature. TheDoctors 2.0& Youmanifesto is not political. It is a collaborative work in progress. Our goal is to identify the ways in which the inclusion of collaborative digital tools and social media platforms can improve care and translate this into the words of a manifesto. Our point of reference, is The Cluetrain Manifesto, a set of 95 theses put forward as a manifesto, or call to action, for all businesses operating within the newly-connected...
Source: Denise Silber's eHealth - February 17, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: Denise Silber Tags: Doctors 2.0 Source Type: blogs
Physicians can make a difference. Here are 3 ways they did.
I read and listen to much fiction. While listening to a fantasy novel, one character verbalizes a most important concept. Every action has consequences. Those consequences are both expected and unexpected. We might predict some unexpected consequences, if we only spend some time to think through the likely impact of that action.
Bureaucrats and politicians have imposed a series of administrative burdens on physicians and patients. We use EHRs that work slowly and non-intuitively. We are forced to write notes that do not make medical sense, lead to inferior communication and emphasize all the work components of ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 15, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Robert Centor, MD Tags: Physician Primary care Source Type: blogs
The Payment Reform Landscape: How Does Telehealth Fit Into A High-Value Purchasing Strategy?
Employers and other health care purchasers will continue to seek new ways to procure high-value care for their member populations as long as the cost of health care continues to rise and quality remains uneven. Over the last five years, there have been significant reforms to how we pay providers for services, along with attempts to improve transparency in the health care system to give consumers and purchasers needed insight into the quality and price of care.
In addition, there is an ongoing seismic shift in how employers and health plans structure health benefits for consumers, placing more financial responsibility on co...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - February 12, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Suzanne Delbanco and Lea Tessitore Tags: Costs and Spending Featured Health IT Health Professionals Hospitals Organization and Delivery Payment Policy Catalyst for Payment Reform Physicians Telehealth Source Type: blogs
Communication with patients is a problem. How do we fix it?
In my practice of facilitating cancer support groups, all I do is listen to patients and their families. Consequently, I hear much about the nature of their care. They generally speak favorably about its technical aspects, and indeed these are often awesome. But when they complain, it’s uniformly — and I mean one hundred percent — about communication.
One man has been trying to get an appointment with a pulmonologist for several weeks now. The required referral from his primary care doctor was sent long ago, by fax and also by snail mail, yet the specialist’s office claims it wasn’t received. ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 6, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Jeff Kane, MD Tags: Physician Emergency Primary care Source Type: blogs
Consequences & why the train leaving the station means nothing
I read and listen to much fiction. While listening to a fantasy novel, one character verbalizes a most important concept. Every action has consequences. Those consequences are both expected and unexpected. We might predict some unexpected consequences, if we only spend some time to think through the likely impact of that action.
Bureaucrats and politicians have imposed a series of administrative burdens on physicians and patients. We use EHRs that work slowly and non-intuitively. We are forced to write notes that do not make medical sense, lead to inferior communication and emphasize all the work components of ...
Source: DB's Medical Rants - February 1, 2016 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: rcentor Tags: Medical Rants Source Type: blogs
It shouldn’t be so hard for patients to correct their medical record
This past summer an article in USA Today talked about Regina Holliday’s efforts to make the medical record more easily and promptly available to patients, so it becomes as a tool patients use as they engage in co-managing their own care. Her cause is just, and her story is compelling, so I was dismayed at the pushback saying: Not so fast. There are lots of errors and ambiguities in the record, so it is in everyone’s best interest to make the record hard for patients to obtain.
What a concept.
The commonest examples listed by opponents of patient access to patient information reflected a combination of poor communica...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 27, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Peter Elias, MD Tags: Tech Health IT Source Type: blogs
In health care: It’s not a customer service problem. It’s communication.
Over the past year, I’ve read countless publications concerning the relationship of customer service and patient care. Many have alluded to the fact that customer service in health care is not only unfeasible, but also detrimental to patient care. As a huge proponent of customer service, it was quite natural to take a defensive stand, posturing against these “absurd accusations.” Over the years I’ve learned, quite often the hard way, that natural, spontaneous responses, although with honorable intentions, often lead to more confusion and conflict. I elected the mature and enlightening response of stepping back from...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 16, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Jeffrey McWilliams, MD Tags: Physician Primary care Source Type: blogs
Three Rules For a Healthy mHealth App
By JAAN SIDOROV, MD
According to this Wall Street Journal article, the prospect that “your doctor may soon prescribe you a smartphone app” is ushering in a new era of m-healthiness.
e-Researchers from marquee academic institutions are assessing the impact of handheld apps on medication use, symptom management, risk reduction and provider-patient communication. There’s not only an technology platform but an accompanying library of tailored e-prompts, e-reminders, e-pop-ups, e-recommendations, e-messaging, e-images and e-videos.
In other words, mix one part app with one part patient and bake until quality ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 19, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: THCB Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
The Mastery Learning Medical Education Pathway
By: William C. McGaghie, PhD, professor of medical education, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
In 2004, at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, we began a mastery learning program to train PGY-2 internal medicine residents in advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) team resuscitation skills. There is the perception that American Heart Association (AHA) provider courses–the traditional “gold standard” for ACLS education–are insufficient to prepare residents to respond to actual ACLS events. So we developed our mastery learning program. The sessions involve strong doses of deliberate practice by in...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - November 5, 2015 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective deliberate practice graduate medical education mastery learning undergraduate medical education Source Type: blogs
