Tuesday, July 31, 2007

More effective email

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Our CIO, John Halamka, recently authored a column for Computerworld in which he offers some ways for dealing with the large influx of email...
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Monday, July 30, 2007

Pages from the Playbook

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I have received lots of questions recently from hospital colleagues and others wondering about the status of the Service Employees Internati...
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Sunday, July 29, 2007

Face transplants

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Liz Kowalczyk writes in the Boston Globe today about a decision by Brigham and Women's Hospital to do face transplants. These are rare...
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Friday, July 27, 2007

Building Plans

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A press release we issued yesterday follows. Story by Jeff Krasner in the Boston Globe today offers more context and details. See my post...
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Thursday, July 26, 2007

Simpson Sox

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From Boston.com, "What some of the members of the 2007 Sox might look like if they spent time in Springfield. " Check it out .

On to New Orleans

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A message to our staff yesterday. Another transition here at BIDMC. First, Herb Kressel, our chief of radiology, stepped down to become edit...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Panamanian Wedding Cake

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Following up on an earlier post about a St. Thomas charoset recipe, here is an article on salon.com written by my daughter Sarah about the...
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A verdict is delivered

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David Abel at the Boston Globe reports today on the results of a high profile malpractice case involving bariatric surgery. The jury return...
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Monday, July 23, 2007

Hub on Wheels

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My friend Nicole asked me to let you know about this event: Coming up in September is one of those events that helps define Boston as the tr...
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It's Monday and . . .

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. . . . the Joint Commission has arrived for our unscheduled survey. As I have noted in the past , if the Joint Commission didn't exist...
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Friday, July 20, 2007

Profoundly shaped by relationships

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As we go into a beautiful summer weekend here in New England, I want to share an equally beautiful bit of prose with you. It is by David Br...
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More on surgery disclosure

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Following our discussions below, here is the link that presents cardiac surgery results for individual doctors in Massachusetts. It covers...
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Thursday, July 19, 2007

Crossing network boundaries

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An interesting story by Jeff Krasner in the Globe today about an expansion of the physicians network in the Partners HealthCare System. Fo...
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There are no Wednesdays in summer

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I received a comment asking why I have not been making posts in my Wednesday is for Students series. The simple answer is that I have not ...
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Our geeks excel again

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Back in February, I wrote a post unabashedly touting our hospital information systems, and giving lots of credit to our CIO, John Halamka. ...
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Let's all help Jim

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Please check out this link to view Jim's story about trying to quit smoking. Let's all send him some encouragement by posting mess...
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Business opportunity?

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For a change of pace from our more serious topics: The above was sent by an Indian friend, suggesting that we consider this as a new revenu...
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Saturday, July 14, 2007

Above averages

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As a follow-up to yesterday's post, guess which of the following stories is true and which is false: Red Sox slugger David Ortiz has tol...
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Friday, July 13, 2007

At the heart of the matter

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Liz Cooney, on White Coats Notes , offers a summary of a new article in the New England Journal of Medicine by Doctors Thomas Lee, David F. ...
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007

White smoke over Mass. Hall

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Ending weeks of speculation, Jeff Flier, a member of our faculty and BIDMC's Chief Academic Officer, has been chosen to be the new Dean ...
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