tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32053362.post5772697800642733124..comments2024-03-26T00:25:34.026-04:00Comments on Not Running a Hospital: Alarms should go off in our headsPaul Levyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17065446378970179507noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32053362.post-83626301578627456452010-04-07T07:12:20.975-04:002010-04-07T07:12:20.975-04:00Process improvement is not rocket science. There i...Process improvement is not rocket science. There is no reason why delivery of care systems can't be improved except for the usual institution inertia that pervades most American hospitals.S Danielsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32053362.post-54737217150379381472010-04-07T04:01:45.814-04:002010-04-07T04:01:45.814-04:00I to took from the articles I read on this that th...I to took from the articles I read on this that there was no central monitoring station. What happened to those? They used to be the standard of care. Did they go the way of budget cuts and new technology. If so, simple understanding of human behaviour could have warned before hand that this would happen.Yvonne MDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32053362.post-81846790569360332010-04-06T14:08:16.860-04:002010-04-06T14:08:16.860-04:00"They don't think of the business issues ..."They don't think of the business issues at hand because they're consumed with patient care issues," <br /><br />That last guy is a real pip.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32053362.post-46976957190073179742010-04-06T11:48:26.977-04:002010-04-06T11:48:26.977-04:00From Facebook:
Scott: I think hospitals also lag ...From Facebook:<br /><br />Scott: I think hospitals also lag behind in talent management, as evidenced by ads for health IT personnel with minimal qualifications.<br /><br />Or no qualifications. From a "Healthcare Informatics"article "Who's growing CIO's" a few years ago:<br /><br />... I don't think a degree gets you anything," says healthcare recruiter Lion Goodman, president of the Goodman Group in San Rafael, California about CIO's and other healthcare MIS staffers. Healthcare MIS recruiter Betsy Hersher of Hersher Associates, Northbrook, Illinois, agreed, stating "There's nothing like the school of hard knocks." In seeking out CIO talent, recruiter Lion Goodman "doesn't think clinical experience yields [hospital] IT people who have broad enough perspective. Physicians in particular make poor choices for CIOs. They don't think of the business issues at hand because they're consumed with patient care issues," according to Goodman.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32053362.post-57400186791054472992010-04-06T09:59:42.380-04:002010-04-06T09:59:42.380-04:0020 years ago I worked as a nurse on one of the 40 ...20 years ago I worked as a nurse on one of the 40 bed medical units in what was then Beth Israel Hospital. The size of the unit, which was arranged in a star- like pattern of very long hallways around a central nurses' station, created plenty of patient safety issues. But never in my almost 5 years there was "alarm fatigue" regarding the telemetry system an issue. No matter how noisy the unit got, if one of those alarms sounded, a nurse would immediately review it and another would immediately go to check the patient if there was any question of safety.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03803373085568153185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32053362.post-55606267762004860682010-04-06T06:32:06.024-04:002010-04-06T06:32:06.024-04:00When I first read the article yesterday I was puzz...When I first read the article yesterday I was puzzled. Maybe I'm outdated, but my hospital used to have dedicated monitor techs. (e.g. their job was to sit there and monitor the monitors at the nurses station.) Are they a victim of budget cuts these days?<br /><br />nonlocalAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com