Sunday, January 30, 2011

The Financial Costs of Hidden Protocols : How Regulatory Bodies Can Help

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Know that very common tool known as the “ Heparin protocol ”? Whether your hospital is electronic, or paper-based, you probably have some ve...
Tuesday, January 25, 2011

On the Importance of Policy Mechanisms and Governance

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Healthcare is going through change. Tremendous change . Pay-for-performance, ACOs, EMRs, and a rapidly growing buffet table of regulator...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Order Set Development and Preparing for the Downtimes

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So as if order set development wasn't challenging enough, some people will ask : "Dirk... So once you go electronic, you don'...
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Thursday, January 6, 2011

Policy Manuals Made Easy

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Hi folks. Happy new year! May 2011 be even better than 2010 was! :) So I've been asked recently about where informatics policies shoul...
Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Find any document in your hospital in five clicks?

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It's December. The squirrels have gathered their nuts. The leaves have fallen. People are having their holiday parties. It's a time ...
Saturday, December 4, 2010

What is Medicine Reconciliation, anyway?

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So recently I've been hearing and reading a lot about medicine reconciliation. Medicine reconciliation is the safety practice that, it...
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Sunday, November 21, 2010

Converting paper order sets to electronic

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If you're reading this, I hope you're the person in your institution trying to "convert the paper order sets to electronic ones...