May 2011
12 posts
For the last several days I've been in Paris...
For the last several days I’ve been in Paris. I’m participating in some cool projects for nurses being built by The Future Well, a healthy-living-slash-good-design consulting firm founded by Jay Parkinson (a regular tumblr) and Grant Harrison. I’ll write more about these projects soon.
Paris has been more or less what I expected (in a good way). There have been a few...
“He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to...”
– Roger Ascham
Sparrow 1.2 released →
Sparrow version 1.2 for Mac was released today. It’s a great update to the best mail client for the Mac. Sparrow’s UI is clean, contemporary, and way better than the standard Mac OSX Mail app. If you own a Mac and use email (and if you don’t do both of those things, what’s wrong with you?) then you should check it out.
Recording of Florence Nightingale, 1890 →
Download the audio here: http://cl.ly/6sl8
Three shocking facts about healthcare you already...
There are three basic facts about healthcare in the US that we have all heard so many times that it’s become easy to let them lose their shock value. I’ll list them again here as a reminder to myself as much as for anyone else reading this:
The US is the only major industrialized nation not to guarantee access to health care as a basic right of its citizens.
The US spends twice as...
Hey ONC: where are the nurses?
Over the past couple weeks, I’ve been listening to the master audio recording of the ONC’s recent workgroup called “Usability of EHRs.” The recording is over seven hours long, so I’m listening in stages. I’m struck so far by a glaring omission. The day’s first panel represented the “clinician” perspective. However, only one nurse was present —...
ACOs are for the Big Boys →
Margalit Gur-Arie, easily my favorite healthcare blogger and a fantastic writer, on what the ACO model (and, I suppose, whatever comes next) means for small physician practices:
ACOs are for the big boys, hospitals and/or extra-large multi-specialty groups, to set up, manage and perhaps eventually benefit from. Big systems, as we all know, enjoy economies of scale, are better able to manage...
Usability is a journey
John Halamka, MD on EHR usability, done the right way:
My own experience is that usability is journey. Several years ago when the Joint Commission asked hospitals to implement medication reconciliation for all transitions of care, my development groups built innovative software that leveraged inpatient, outpatient, ED systems, and Surescripts/RxHub medication history to support the process. It...
