I will be presenting at the AACN/NTI meeting, along with Cheryl Batchelor, the Executive Director Clinical Operations at FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital. Our talk, sponsored by Welch Allyn, is titled “Patient Flow Unplugged: JCAHO Guidelines and the Acuity Adaptable Unit.” If you’re an early riser, you can attend this Sunrise Session here:
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
7:00am […]
Canadian RFID outfit eXI has been acquired by VeriChip Corp, and subsidiary of Applied Digital. Since there's little chance patients or hospital employees will be lining up to get implanted with their own passive RFID chip, the acquisition of a more acceptable (external) solution is a good move. eXI already has a hospital product, HALO, […]
Since I’ve been on a bit of a blog kick this week, it seems time to introduce the concept of “fisking.” Named after an infamous BBC reporter, Robert Fisk, fisking
is the act of refuting or correcting a previous piece of writing, point
by point. Usually done in a direct no nonsense way, fisking is setting
the record […]
As medical science continues to stomp out disease and suffering, it seems the CDC goes to ever greater lengths to justify their existence. Market research is their latest endeavor. Here they report on EMR adoption rates in hospital EDs, outpatient departments, and physician offices (31, 29 and 17 percent respectively).
Grand Rounds is up (early)! This week we're hosted by Dr Tony, who works in a large community hospital Emergency Center. You can attend Grand Rounds here.
Five years after the bubble burst, the Internet is still changing the way we get information. Whether it's “the sky is falling” stories like this, or more thoughtful stories, we are getting our information from new places and in new ways.
This story asks the question, are web logs to replace trade magazines? We have […]
Northwestern Memorial researchers have published a study demonstrating that “smart” IV pumps do not improve patient safety on their own. You can find the actual study here.
“The objectives of the study were to determine the actual types, frequency and severity of medication errors associated with IV pumps, and also determine if errors could have been prevented […]
The New York Times describes (registration required) the fall out of political patronage, heavy government regulation, and a late 90's building boom on New York state's hospitals. In a little more than two years, 12 New York hospitals have closed, and the state estimates there may still be as many as 20,000 excess beds. On the state level, […]
Today's the day! This new rule applies to electronic, administrative and physical security of patient identifyable health data.
The security rule requires health groups to have on staff a chief information security officer, perform an analysis of security risks, take safeguards to address security vulnerabilities and train employees on compliance. Violators of the rule are […]
I'm back after more than two days struggling with my Verizon DSL broadband Internet connection. Last Tuesday, Verizon did some “scheduled maintenance” that they knew would knock some customers off their network. Of course there was no prior notice.
The big ISPs are notoriously cagey about the technical details of their networks. Verizon limits the outflow […]
