Bringing humanity to the patient experience
by Jason A. Wolf
I intended my most recent Hospital Impact post to begin a dialogue on refocusing our conversations in healthcare. I worry that at times we get lost in the policies and process, programs and products and forget the most important "P" of all--people. I suggested in May that the "how" in healthcare trumps the "what" each and every day.
This too is evident in the conversations I continue to have with patients and family members, including the experiences my family is having as we continue our own healthcare journey.
As I speak to people in healthcare and observe it as a patient and researcher, I see a para...
Source: hospital impact - June 21, 2013 Category: Health Managers Authors: Wendy Johnson Source Type: blogs
Health Care Innovation in the Style of Gov 2.0
From medical apps, to check-in kiosks at the doctor’s office, to telemonitoring- it is clear that innovation is changing the way health care is received and practiced. DW recently sat down with Medical Officer and Chief Strategist for Innovation in the Division of Science and Innovation, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, Dr. Rebecca Coelius, to talk about how the government is supporting innovation.
You self-identify as a social entrepreneur and are featured on this site because you are much more a disruptor than a classic government worker. What led you to DC?
Many of my friends thought I was insane f...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - June 19, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Consumer Health Care Guest Posts Health 2.0 Health Reform HIT/Health Gaming Innovation Policy Uncategorized Up-and-coming Disruptive Women Source Type: blogs
LIVESTRONG Execs Honored as Public Relations Professionals of the Year
We are grateful for all the long hours, tough calls and strategic planning Katherine and Doug have put in to support the work we do for people with cancer. (Source: LIVESTRONG Blog)
Source: LIVESTRONG Blog - June 14, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Brooke McMillan Source Type: blogs
Congratulations: ACC Names New Annual Scientific Session Leadership for 2015 and Beyond
The ACC has announced the appointments of Athena Poppas, MD, FACC, and Jeffrey T. Kuvin, MD, FACC, to the newly created positions of ACC Annual Scientific Session chair and vice chair, respectively. Both positions will start in 2015.
I personally can’t think of two better people to fill these new and vitally important roles at the College. Dr. Poppas is a member of the ACC’s Board of Trustees and chair of the ACC Sections Steering Committee. She, like me, also served on the Board of Governors. In her “spare time,” she is director of the Echocardiography Laboratory at Rhode Island Hospital, ...
Source: ACC in Touch Blog - June 12, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Administrator Tags: CV Meetings Special Topics Source Type: blogs
ACHE’s Physician Executives Forum Program in NYC
The American College of Healthcare Executives is an international professional society of more than 40,000 healthcare executives who lead hospitals, healthcare systems and other healthcare organizations.
ACHE is offering a new, one-day program designed exclusively for physician executives. Encourage your medical staff leaders to attend ACHE’s Physician Executives Forum Program on Friday, Aug. 9, at the Grand Hyatt New York.
This one-day program will address the critical issues physician executives face today and will delve into forward-looking topics such as:
Key elements of business and organizational strategy
T...
Source: Non-Clinical Physician Jobs, Careers, and Opportunities - June 9, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Joseph Kim, MD, MPH Source Type: blogs
Clinical IT Governance Update
Yesterday I led the Clinical IT Governance meeting at BIDMC and I thought it would be interesting for my readers to get an inside look of the kind of topics we're discussing and how we're implementing our most challenging projects.1. Joint Commission debriefLast week the Joint Commission visited BIDMC and the experience was very positive. When there are process variations and potential shortcomings identified by the Joint Commission, IT solutions are often suggested. In this particular visit, there were a few small software changes made during the visit to better support National Patient Safety goals suc...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - May 29, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Source Type: blogs
ACCME: Proposal for Simplifying and Evolving the Accreditation Requirements and Process for CME
This week, the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME®) announced a “Proposal for Simplifying and Evolving the Accreditation Requirements and Process.” The proposed changes seek to streamline the accreditation process and requirements and to strengthen support for continuing medical education (CME) as a strategic asset to health care improvement initiatives.
The proposal is based on the ACCME Board of Directors’ strategic planning, the ACCME’s experience evaluating providers under the 2006 Accreditation Criteria and analysis of accreditation data, and feedback from stakeholders.
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Source: Policy and Medicine - May 23, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
Excellent Papers On Doing Large Scale E-Health and EHR Quality and Safety. Must Read Stuff.
The following papers were published a few days ago.
J Am Med Inform Assoc 2013;20:e9-e13 doi:10.1136/amiajnl-2013-001684
Perspectives
Ten key considerations for the successful implementation and adoption of large-scale health information technology
Kathrin M Cresswell,
David W Bates,
Aziz Sheikh
Abstract
The implementation of health information technology interventions is at the forefront of most policy agendas internationally. However, such undertakings are often far from straightforward as they require complex strategic planning accompanying the systemic organizational changes associated with su...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - May 21, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs
Funding Opportunities Roundup pt. 2
Part C Capacity Development Program
Health Resources and Services Administration – Funding to assist eligible entities to strengthen their organizational infrastructure and to increase their capacity to develop, enhance, or expand access to high quality HIV primary health care services for people in underserved or rural communities.
Deadline: May 30, 2013
For more information: http://goo.gl/xk2Sl
Nurse Education, Practice, Quality, and Retention Veterans to BSN Coordinating Center
Bureau of Health Professions – Offers funding to operate a coordinating center to support the Nurse Education, Practice,...
Source: BHIC - May 16, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Monica Rogers Tags: Scholarships and Grants Source Type: blogs
NEHTA Seems Just To Have Released A New Webiste. Very Pretty.
The site can be found at the old address:
http://www.nehta.gov.au/
And it seems to have gone with a tiled Window 8 appearance for the front page.
As far as information is concerned there are publications up to Oct 2012 but is seems to die after than - a work in progress I guess.
See here:
http://www.nehta.gov.au/media-centre/nehta-publications
It is also a little worrying that the Strategic Plan seems to have expired. Does that mean it has all been done?
Our Strategy
Our strategy for progressing eHealth infrastructure and adoption.
Strategic Plan Structure
Introduction:
Building on...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - May 14, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs
Is medicine a profession or a commodity?
Over the past twenty years, Wall Street business has covertly taken over the medical profession while doctors have been distracted by a deluge of procedural, financial, and legal paperwork. A strategic plan was launched to extract exorbitant profit benefiting business, and is now mainstream without challenge from our profession nor the public.
Legal boardrooms were abuzz in the 1990s as a blueprint assault was made against organized medicine, redirecting a profession into a commodity. Symposiums templated this game plan for hospital administrators, while lobbyists strengthened their legal foothold. Despite recognition of...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 9, 2013 Category: Family Physicians Tags: Physician Hospital Source Type: blogs
American Medical Association: Launches Improving Health Outcomes Initiative
To bolster ongoing efforts to address the leading causes of suffering and death in our nation and to engage the physician community in improving national health outcomes, the American Medical Association (AMA) recently announced the first phase of its new multi-year, multi-million dollar improving health outcomes (IHO) initiative: preventing cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes and improving health outcomes for those with these conditions.
“Cardiovascular disease accounts for one-third of all deaths in our nation, and one-in-three adults could have diabetes by 2050 if current trends continue,” said AMA Preside...
Source: Policy and Medicine - May 2, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
New York Is Open for Business, Cuomo Style
David Boaz
Danny Hakim of the New York Times tells us how state government works under Andrew Cuomo, in an in-depth investigation of the Empire State Development Corporation:
New York State’s economic development agency created a new position last June, and then found a candidate to fill it: a young man named Willard Younger, who had just graduated from Colgate University with a degree in classics and religion. He became a special projects associate, at a salary of $45,000 a year, according to state personnel records.
His father, Stephen P. Younger, is a lawyer and power broker in legal circles who was a member of&...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 28, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
Emergency Medicine Kwa-Zulu Natal Style
aka Postcards from the Edge 010
Each time we feature a ‘postcard from the edge’ from the somewhat infamous New Zealand-trained emergency physician Dr Sandy Inglis he is somewhere new — we last heard from him as a patient in Italy, now he is back in ancestral lands in Kwa-Zulu Natal.
Only 2 months have past in this, the wild west of Emergency Medicine, and yet the drama, the excitement, the frustration and the chaos make it feel like we have been here for years. I am employed here as the Head of Department for Emergency Medicine, plucked from the comfort of Australasian Emergency Medicine (EM) to come to this ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 24, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Emergency Medicine Featured kwa-zulu natal postcard from the edge sandy inglis South Africa Source Type: blogs
