by e-Patient Dave | Sep 9, 2010
The Running A Hospital blog has another discussion of dealing with medical error. This time, the hospital has opened up an error of its own (a wrong side surgery) for examination by the Open School of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Sample comments: From...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Sep 7, 2010
The Boston Globe has a revealing article about a study published in Annals of Internal Medicine where patients thought that a heart stent would help prevent another heart attack. But doctors had only told patients that it would relieve future chest pain. How can such...
by e-Patient Dave | Sep 2, 2010
At last weekend’s MITSS patient safety workshop, some of us remarked out loud that it would be great to have a simple video teaching newly admitted hospital patients the importance of hand washing, and even showing them how to speak up to a staff person who...
by e-Patient Dave | Sep 1, 2010
Claudia Williams at ONC has job openings for “a couple of talented folks” to add to the high-energy team, to work on State HIE. Details: (HIE is Heath Information Exchange. The State HIE program is described here.) Claudia says:...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Sep 1, 2010
A friend of mine, Ms. S., recently had an unsettling experience with a company called Caremark (the parent company of pharmacy CVS), whom she fills her prescriptions through. She was reordering a prescription refill she buys through the mail, and needed to pay for it....
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