Nothing to Hide in Airline’s Campaign. Really. – NYTimes.com

When talking about patient safety, we always like to compare us to aviation industries.  But we never put something like this on the web for our patient. We should do this, NOW.

Nothing to Hide in Airline’s Campaign. Really. – NYTimes.com

Annals of Medicine: The Cost Conundrum: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

I read more and more this kind article. 

Annals of Medicine: The Cost Conundrum: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

OpenAnesthesia.org

Wow,  Web 2.0 comes to Anesthesiology. Also see the effort by Berci at Webicina.

OpenAnesthesia.org

PRO: Manometry Should Routinely Be Used During Central Venous Catheterization — Leibowitz and Rozner 109 (1): 3 — Anesthesia & Analgesia

Another evidence support use the Transduction catheter to confirm the location of CVC, although it might applicable to all specialties, cardiology.   

PRO: Manometry Should Routinely Be Used During Central Venous Catheterization — Leibowitz and Rozner 109 (1): 3 — Anesthesia & Analgesia

Integration of health care process analysis in the design of a clinical information system: applying to the blood transfusion process.

The EMR enables doctors using those information originally from paper format, it also provides ideal electronic platform for data coordination, synchronization, and integration of complex systems information including different providers/team personnel, communication, supply/materials, and financial resources. The EMR is changing from static repositories of physiology data to a dynamic clinical information platform for patient care and continuous quality improvement initiatives.   Combined with recently published PRISM framework, it underscored the importance of the new EMR design, especially as current push of EMR adoption.

Integration of health care process analysis in the design of a clinical information system: applying to the blood transfusion process.

Patients Reveal a Willingness to Trade Hands-On Medical Care for Computer Consultations – RWJF

This will help to expand the utilization of the IT technology for healthcare delivery reform. 

Patients Reveal a Willingness to Trade Hands-On Medical Care for Computer Consultations – RWJF

What has the Gates Foundation done for global health? : The Lancet

GF direction is not different compare to overall direction of government funded projects.  The comments from Lancet papers is well taken.  But the report from consumer group showing  little has been done to fix the problem of preventable medical errors that kill nearly 98,000 people in the United States each year.  No data have been showing the patten globally. I will not surprise it is about the same.  Medical community and policy maker should also pay  attention on the health care delivery as important as novel medication, treatment.  The “engineering ” of medicine is as important as “physics ” of medicine.  Dr. Pronovost also has made similar suggestions.  Regarding research funding, reading the report from Federal Funding for health service research. There is the discrepancy between what has been done and what is needed.  Currently, between $.30 and $.40 of every dollar spent on health care is spent on the costs of poor quality (overuse, underuse, misuse, duplication, system failure, unnecessary repetition, poor commutations and inefficiency).  However, less than one cent ($.01) of every healthcare dollar is spent on health services research. Research resources need to be used more effectively to guide the needed improvement in healthcare delivery.

What has the Gates Foundation done for global health? : The Lancet

Twitter and other tools

Have not post recently as I do more shoring writing and sharing on twitter and yammer recently.  I used  be a little bit hesitate to try those things. Because I don’t see the point I tell other what I am doing in 14o characters. But on one Friday evening, after got a twitter account, I found two piece of information about simulation I have no way to come across by other means (web, search engine, blog, listserv-need retired) So I am convincd, the twitter and other social network tools/website/service is just a tool. It can be used for anything as long as in a good hand.   Just sign up  account.  Have fun tweeting.

Microsoft Unveils Software Platform For Life Science Research — Microsoft Health Sciences

Something innovative from Microsoft. 

Microsoft Unveils Software Platform For Life Science Research — Microsoft Health Sciences

Reduce a Medical Mistake in the Hospital – Oprah.com

Dr. Oz’s also has a checklist. For patients. 

Reduce a Medical Mistake in the Hospital – Oprah.com