Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Who's waiting?

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E-patient Dave referred me to this article in USA Today, entitled " Wait times to see doctor getting longer ." The title says it...
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Monday, June 08, 2009

The Overseers learn medicine

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Our Board of Overseers comprises several dozen members of the community who have chosen to spend time learning about BIDMC, assisting in gov...

Red Sox Scholars Class of 2009

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It was time yesterday to announce our new class of Red Sox Scholars. This a group of 25 academically talented fifth-graders from the neigh...
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Sunday, June 07, 2009

Steps towards universal health coverage

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Finally, straight talk on health care reform. I mentioned earlier that the President's proposal to increase access, preserve consumer c...
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Saturday, June 06, 2009

How do you make an ACO accountable?

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A letter to the editor in the New York times from Timothy Ford follows up on a point I made the other day about the President's propos...
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Friday, June 05, 2009

Manhattanhenge

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Courtesy of NPR's Science Friday, produced by Flora Lichtman: Twice a year, the sunset lines up with New York City's street grid -- ...
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Thursday, June 04, 2009

The WIHI chat room

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A picture of Madge Kaplan from the set of the WIHI webcast below , along with some comments from the chat room. The topic was mainly this b...
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WIHI show today at 3pm EDT

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Please join me and Madge Kaplan today for an IHI audiocast at 3pm EDT. It's free, but enroll in advance. Best to listen in front of yo...
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Is [G]overnment [M]edicine next?

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From today's Boston Globe : In a detailed two-page letter to key senators released yesterday, the president wrote that he wants to ...
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Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Easily making it easier at Gemba

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A repetitive theme of our Lean training is that many of the best ideas are easy to implement, but they would never get management's atte...
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New line of business

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At BIDMC, we pride ourselves on excellence in strategic planning and implementation. With the proposed changes in reimbursement methodolog...
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Boston's Future Leaders

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Boston's Future Leaders are a group of young professionals sponsored by their employers for a year of engagement, mentorship and trainin...
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Local Photography Show

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Monday, June 01, 2009

Facebook in Reality

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For my social media friends: Check this out.
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The infrastructure chronicles -- Volume 1

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A recent Boston Globe story by Stephanie Ebbert about squabbling between two state agencies involved in the rehabilitation of a local brid...
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A celebration for those who have been touched by cancer

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Sunday, June 7 -- 8am to 3pm Harvard Medical School Quadrangle 200 Longwood Avenue Boston, MA (Note: See Hester's comment below about p...
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Clicking through Lean

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An aspect of the Lean process improvement that is reinforced often in our training sessions is to learn to identify and eliminate "the...
Sunday, May 31, 2009

What's an ex-President worth?

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Did this bother you, or is it just me? A Jim Rutenberg article in yesterday's New York Times presented the story of former Presidents...
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Friday, May 29, 2009

SEIU surveys the residents

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This week, residents at our hospital received an email survey request from the SEIU. Does this mean the union is thinking about organizing ...
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Happy birthday to the OR staff

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Every month, nurse Tere McCarthy makes a cake in honor of OR staff members who are celebrating their birthday that month. Here is this mont...