If you wanted to help school children get healthier, one way to reach them is in school. Ahaaa... now you're thinking like a public health provider.... Read More
Let's face it--medicine in changing but traditional hierarchies in medicine aren't as quick to catch up. Craig Saylor, CEO of Somerset Hospital in Somerset, Pennsylvania shares his take on why old forms of care delivery need to change. And do you know what a patient/family counsel model is? If not, you should. ... Read More
Hospitals are not innovating as quickly as their emerging competitors: Tech companies marketing wellness gadgets and pharmacy chains opening walk-in clinics. What does the industry need to do to stay in the game? ... Read More
The global rise of tech companies like Amazon, Apple and Google happened because they paid attention to the hassles consumers faced buying books, renting movies or using their cell phones.... Read More
Being impatient and disagreeable generally are not considered admirable qualities. But Malcolm Gladwell suggests they may be exactly the characteristics needed to drive innovation forward. He points to Apple founder Steve Jobs as Exhibit A.... Read More
Hala Durrah's 11-year-old daughter has survived two liver transplants and a bout with lymphoma. Managing her medical affairs was all-consuming for Durrah, who, as a patient advocate at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Maryland, draws on her experience to help other families survive their own medical odysseys.... Read More
Patient-centered care isn't about looking good on consumer scorecards. It's a mindset, an organizing principle and a means to a greater end: high-value health care, says Tom Lee, Chief Medical Officer for Press Ganey, the nation's leading provider of patient satisfaction surveys
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A system that's sick. That's what Bob S. Kaplan, Ph.D., the world's leading authority on strategic performance measurement, sees when he looks at the U.S. health care system. We spend $3 trillion a year, 50 percent more per capita than anyone else in the world, and yet we have worse outcomes, says Kaplan, Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development Emeritus at Harvard Business School (HBS). We don¿t know our costs. We don't measure outcomes. Moreover, we don't even agree on what the goal of our health care system is. ... Read More
What would motivate employees to make their organization more efficient? Intuitively, employees could view Lean projects as threats to their own employment and professional growth. So how does any health system inspire employees to figure out ways to eliminate waste while boosting morale?... Read More
Bias has no home in medical research. But as relationships between multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical companies and academic medical centers become dangerously intertwined, bias is now unavoidable.... Read More
Spring means tulips and conferences. And joining social media can be a terrific way to interact with other conference-goers or see what's happening at a conference across the country without leaving your desk. It can also be a boost for business, reputation and new way to interact with patients, consumers and peers. But getting started can be a bit daunting. For help launching your Twitter account, download the Twitter 101 for Physicians PDF. You can also view the PDF online.... Read More
As a middle class taxpayer, Liana Orsolini Ph.D, R.N., wants health care that's safe, effective, affordable, and accessible to everyone. Impossible? Orsolini doesn't think so. As a consultant for Clinical Excellence and Innovation at Bon Secours Health System, she's helping to figure out how to redesign our health care system to accomplish those ambitious goals. ... Read More
Boston University anesthesiologist Rafael Ortega, M.D., believes that creating digital content means much more than just posting a pdf of a textbook online. True multimedia content is designed to be interactive and digital from the inception. Ortega and five colleagues did just that when they created the first fully interactive, mobile edition of the authoritative text in their field - Barash's Clinical Anesthesia. Listen in as Ortega describes how moving images, sound, richness in color make a multimedia media experience more powerful, learner-centered, and most important of all . . . enjoyable.... Read More
Attention students: librarians want you to know that libraries still exist and have value. In fact, a student and librarian partnership could results in better outcomes.
Jean Shipman, director of the Eccles Health Sciences Library at the University of Utah University of Utah checks in with Jane Blumenthal, associate university librarian, and director Taubman Health Sciences Library at the University of Michigan. You'll learn things you never knew about the role of the library in the modern era. ... Read More
David P. Sklar, M.D., is editor-in-chief of Academic Medicine. Listen as he explains the role of an academic journal in health care transformation and shares insights on how writers and researchers can improve their likelihood of getting published.... Read More
Rohaid Ali, undergraduate student at University of Pennsylvania and Rhodes Scholar finalist, discusses how incorporating iPads has impacted medical education at Perelman. He also discusses their value for students and residents in clinical settings and how they might be used in patient education. ... Read More
Listen in as Cynthia Manley of Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Dennis Jolley of University of Utah Health Care have a conversation about the increasingly important role of social media and the opportunities for engagement created for academic medicine by the new media landscape.... Read More
Most medical schools are seen as ivory towers filled with intellects that have little in common with average people. In this era of change, it's not the image most Universities want or need. During a session titled 'Activating the Public's Perception of Academic Medicine,' guest speakers offered insight and solutions into helping academic medical centers break through the stereotypes and connect more with the public and key stakeholders. First step? Don't call ourselves academic medical centers. ... Read More
For almost 90 year- and through four name changes - Academic Medicine has been a forum of information and exchange for administrators and faculty of academic medical centers in the United States and abroad. In their session titled "The Art of Writing and Getting Published," David P. Sklar, editor-in-chief, Jennifer Campi, senior staff editor, and Mary Beth DeVilbiss, managing editor share tips to increase your chances of getting published in the journal. ... Read More
Chris Frymoyer, a second year medical student at Jefferson Medical College, talks about how an appreciation of the arts can expand thinking and develop better observation skills in physicians. Chris is also on the Jefferson curriculum committee and addresses the challenges of implementing arts into the medical school curriculum.
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