Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Making sense of revenues and profits in health care
I read this post on the Health Beat titled “Advice to hospitals in a downturn: Market the high-margin service” and I’m trying to come to grips with it. Don’t get me wrong, the content itself was pretty much straight forward in that it provides advice on how to increase revenues. But, what I’m trying to…
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Dissertation defence broadcast live
I came across this blog post about a live-streamed dissertation defence. For those who don’t know, dissertation defences are usually closed-door meetings. At the PhD level, the candidate usually makes a presentation (usually about 20 minutes) summarizing his/her research to the voting members of the panel. Most schools require a minimum of three voting members…
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Health care of the future?
There was a very interesting series of posts at HBR Insight Center which focused on health care, specifically health care innovations. In the main post titled “Health Care of the Future“, the author presents a list of 10 innovations believed to have big impact. Checklists Behavioral Economics Patient Portals Payment Innovations Evidence-Based Decision Making Accountable…
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The “y” in GE Healthymagination
During the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, I noticed a series of advertisements being played repeatedly promoting GE Healthymagination. The ads themselves were fairly well done and seemed to do a good job of conveying the message that GE is serious about health care and about being an innovation leader. Each time I watched the ad, I…
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Adelstein Brown’s presentation on caregiving
I’ve had a couple of requests for this link, so I’m going to post it so others can find it more easily. Adelstein Brown (Assistant Deputy Minister, Health Systems Strategy Division, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care) gave a talk at the Breakfast with the Chiefs speaker series on May 13, 2009. The title…
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Kaiser Permanente keeps chugging along with EHR implementation
[UPDATE] I forgot to mention that Kaiser was also recognized as one of the world’s most innovative companies (2010) for its work on EHRs by Fast Company (link to the 2010 list of most innovative companies). I’m probably biased, but Kaiser Permanente’s Sidney R. Garfield Health Care Innovation Centre sounds quite a bit like the…
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Google and health privacy – is it enough?
I’m not sure what to make of this “warning” that Google provides to users of its Google Health service as reported in a recent post on Blogoscoped. I can’t say that I’m completely up to speed on my health information privacy regulations, but this does seem to be a bit odd. This type of…
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Nurse Order Entry – an alternative to CPOE?
Getting physicians to enter their own orders on computerized systems has and continues to be a challenge to those in the health informatics field. Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) is often used as a measure of success. Given how the health care systems in North America are structured, getting physicians on-board and using information systems…
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