June 2010 - EHR: How difficult without the correct strategy

EHR certification inspectors will be dropping in on hospitals like UN inspectors looking for WMDs, only they’ll be slightly less congenial. Why is this a part of the overall plan? Is this planned failure? Do they have reason to believe that a certain percentage of EHRs will fail the inspection? Of course...

This is the time of year in the east when cinerescent caterpillar nests hang thickly from the trees, peppered tufts of cotton candy. During these long, flavorless August days, the sky is a similar achromatic color. My nine-year-old is concerned because I told her we are having caterpillar soup for dinner...

Okay, so today was going to be one of those days when I wasn’t going to allow myself to be stupified–at least no more than was really required. Then it sneaks up smack dab in the middle of a call, and from what I’ve been able to determine, people find it annoying if you burst [...] Read More...

There is an adage in the military—different spanks for different ranks. If speaks to a double standard, the less egregious their punishment for similar offenses, similar misjudgments. We see that every day in business, and we see it a lot in healthcare, especially in hospitals. Physicians are held accountable...

One summer in college, I worked for the state roads commission in Maryland. If you like being outdoors, getting a lot of exercise, driving around in the back of dump trucks drinking beer it was the perfect job. The average day went like this. Each morning we’d report to the facility at seven, and sit...

The web never ceases to amaze me. I’ve gotten to the point if I can’t find something I’m looking for, no matter how obscure, I figure that I did something wrong in how I framed the search. For example, I was trying to connect to a high school classmate, someone I hadn’t spoken with since before [......

Commercials bug me. Big surprise. You have probably seen the commercial for the Sleep Number Bed. A bare mattress, a glass of wine on the mattress, a bowling ball is dropped on the mattress. The glass of wine does not spill. That makes some people rush out and buy the mattress. Why? For the security...