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Running a Hospital

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Url:http://runningahospital.blogspot.com/
Author(s):Paul Levy
Language:English
Tags:health, medicine, science
Description:This is a blog started by a CEO of a large Boston hospital to share thoughts about hospitals, medicine, and health care issues.
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Popularity:34 Followers

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The blue glove medical record
From a close friend, about an experience in another hospital:So, Mom is taken to the ED over the weekend for treatment of an infection. On one side of the room is the computer terminal for EMR acce...more
2009-12-17
TFC @ BIDMC
In addition to the Marshfield High School performers, we were fortunate also to have a visit this week from members of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, who performed some holiday songs in one of our...more
2009-12-16
Listening to the staff
Many people around the country followed the dramatic story last March when our employees generously gave up salary increases and benefits to help save hundreds of jobs of their fellow workers. A k...more
2009-12-16
Marshfield High School @ BIDMC
Students from Marshfield High School visited BIDMC yesterday for brief holiday concerts in several of our public spaces. Thanks to them for taking the time and gracing our halls!
2009-12-15
Harnessing the wisdom of the crowd
This follows up on the post below about using networked intelligence to solve complex problems. Our Chief Academic Officer, Vikas Sukhatme, told me about two websites based on this concept.One is ...more
2009-12-15
Pay your fare! Or else! Unless you can't.
Back on October 29, I told you the story of the uninformative signage on the MBTA's Green Line and also mentioned the stern warnings about fare evasion presented to the public on those signs. Well...more
2009-12-14
Ganz, Hillel, and the SEIU
As a child of the '60s, I grew up with heroes like Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. Then in college, we all learned about and were inspired by their precursors, ranging from Thoreau to Ga...more
2009-12-14
McAfee and his new enterprise
I just attended a book party for Andrew McAfee, who has written a great book called Enterprise 2.0 (Harvard Business Press). Here's my blurb for the book:"Andrew McAfee coined the term Enterprise ...more
2009-12-13
Two cheers for Dave
This post is in honor of e-Patient Dave, on two fronts:Point 1: Old prejudices die hard, even among well intentioned people.There's a site called The Web Nurse with lots of useful information about...more
2009-12-12

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