May 2010
35 posts
BP Prepares to Take New Tack on Leak After ‘Top... →
Are you ready to tell us what this means, Mr. Delillo?
Does CPOE Increase Mortality or Not?
This article prepared for the July issue of Pediatrics found that overall mortality rates for inpatients of a California hospital decreased by twenty percent after implementation of a commercially-available CPOE (computerized physician order entry system). It sharply contrasts with a similar study from 2009, also published in Pediatrics, which found the opposite result. The 2009 study found that...
The Problem With a BP Boycott →
Good points from Chris Wage from the Nashville Scene.
I'm Leaving for Haiti Today
I’m heading down to Haiti to volunteer as a nurse in an ICU with a group called Project Medishare. In conjunction with the University of Miami, they run a hospital next to the airport in Port-au-Prince. To volunteer sign up here. You can see the hospital on Google Maps here, and can read an interesting account from previous volunteers here.
FedEx to Offer Same-Sex Benefits →
How many companies are doing the right thing like this?
Things for iPhone 1.5 Released →
Finally! Support for creating and managing Areas of Responsibility. Other fixes and a sweetened icon, too.
PatientKeeper’s CEO and CMO speak about Meaningful... →
Paul Brient, President and CEO of PatientKeeper:
Roughly five percent of hospitals in the country, mostly academic medical centers, have CPOE in some level of deployment and adoption. But if you look out into the community with a typical hospital, there is very little adoption of CPOE, largely because if it slows the doctors down they’re not going to use it. And if they don’t use it, why did you...
Scribus in the Hospital →
Fascinating account of a radiologist/blogger who recreated his hospital’s progress notes with Scribus. He even wrote a script that generated a scannable replica of the patient’s PLUI label barcode. These notes were not only more legible than hand-written reports, but also were filed immediately (rather than waiting 1-2 hours on dictation services):
One thing that happened, and you...
Former Apple Geniuses File Suit for Unpaid Wages →
Sure wish my fellow Apple Authorized Service Provider buddies and I had unionized.
[Via Jim Dalrymple at The Loop]
BP Public Relations on Twitter →
Someone is impersonating BP’s public relations department to great comedic effect:
We regretfully admit that something has happened off of the Gulf Coast. More to come. Eating an expensive lunch and the dumb waitress put lemons in all our waters! WE DID NOT ASK FOR THIS! #bpcares Jesus walked on water and soon you can too! (Please pray for BP, we’re losing a lot of oil). You know...
Twitter's Goals: Value, Clarity, Innovation →
Dick Costolo on Twitter’s decision to ban third party clients from inserting ads into timelines:
Why are we prohibiting these kinds of ads? First, third party ad networks are not necessarily looking to preserve the unique user experience Twitter has created. They may optimize for either market share or short-term revenue at the expense of the long-term health of the Twitter platform. For...
Charles Booth's Poverty Maps on Display →
From the heady days of early information design. Browsable online archive here.
Ars Technica, Nick Carr Discuss Clouds, Files →
I was under the mistaken impression that Chrome OS had a filesystem visible to the user. Apparently it’s totally hidden from view. Carr points out that the iPad’s labyrinthine file management interface only partially obscures the file system:
And of course, the iPad is neither fish nor fowl in this respect, because you still have to move files to and from the iPad, but each app has its own private...
Sen. Grassley Demands EMR Developer Accountability →
This is late news for everyone but me. Last October, Senator Chuck Grassley sent this letter to all the major EMR software vendors. I hope he publishes the materials he receives from them (if any).
LOST Series Finale Tonight →
If you’ve never seen LOST before, do yourself a favor and avoid ABC tonight. You don’t want to spoil the entire series for yourself.
“Possibly there was a certain suggestion of the piscine, sir.”
– Jeeves, from “Right Ho, Jeeves” P.G. Wodehouse
EMR Adoption Rates for US & Canada →
50 percent of hospitals are 50 percent electronic, which is what I’d expect. But shouldn’t we be shocked that more than ten percent of American hospitals have no EMR installed at all?
It’s also interesting that the US EMR adoption rate is, overall, far better than Canada’s (I say “better” under the assumption that existing software systems aren’t worse...
13-Year Old Climbs Everest →
The parenting mistake isn’t letting your kid climb it; it’s letting your kid peak at 13.
AT&T Contract-Termination Fee Hikes →
Could this be a signal that their iPhone exclusivity is ending soon? The new fees are effective June 1st.
We'll Support it When We Support it →
Microsoft Internet Explorer spokesperson on why they don’t fully support HTML5 yet:
“We are committed to providing a browser that accurately supports Web standards,” Microsoft’s spokesperson said. “Our primary concern was making sure that we got CSS 2.1, a specification that has reached final candidate stage, done right before we moved on to specifications that are still in development and may...
Why I Sold the iPad
Folks have been surprised to find out that I sold my iPad after owning it for only a month. They assume I sold it for immediate financial reasons (which is partially true, as the money has helped with upcoming travel expenses for a medical trip to Haiti). But the real reason is that the iPad was simply too much fun. I looked back over the past month and I couldn’t remember doing much of...
“The Dawes Formula: talk - action = shit.”
– Brendan Dawes
Your Site Sucks More Than Your EMR
To all the software companies creating the electronic medical records for the coming century, I suggest the following rules for your companies’ websites:
If there is a stock photograph of a girl wearing a headset telephone anywhere on your website, you have failed.
If there aren’t any screenshots of your software on your site, you have failed.
If it takes more than two clicks from...
“I was determined to know beans.”
– Henry David Thoreau
A TB Nurse in Haiti
The biggest source of stress, Mr. Monfort said, is that his three children and wife are living on the street because the earthquake destroyed their home. His wife begs him daily to stay with them. Instead, unpaid and without a mask or gloves to wear, he walks to the sanatorium each day at 6 a.m. and stays until 8 p.m. when most of the patients drift to sleep.
“Why don’t you just leave us to die?”...
Site Redesign is Halfway Done
As if it wasn’t obvious, this is a crap-n-garbage post designed to occupy space and demonstrate the new CSS styles I’ve applied to this page. The text you are now reading is equivalent to lorem ipsum and should be ignored.
