April 21, 2011
The fundamental imbalance between resource (resource defined as: staff, beds, equipment and devices) supply and demand in healthcare is growing at an alarming rate. It has been widely documented that the aging of the US population and increasingly complex co-morbidities will add significant demand to the acute care system. Healthcare reform will add coverage to an estimated 32 million additional patients leading to an anticipated 13.1 million additional annual ED admission increase.
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April 20, 2011
There they were. My new glasses, sitting on the floor, chewed up by a tough-looking pug who didn't care. Worse, I had a schedule full of meetings the next day and didn't have a spare pair of glasses. The next afternoon, I went to a local one-hour glasses shop in my prescription sunglasses and asked them to have my eyeglass prescription faxed from my optometrist so we could get new glasses started. That's when the fun began.
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April 14, 2011
Yogi Berra once famously said, “The future ain’t what it used to be.” Turns out, Yogi was right, especially in healthcare.The future hospital won’t only be different, it will also be smarter. Proof of that can be seen on the NCH North Naples campus, where we’ve created — with our Cerner Corporation partners — a prototype hospital room of the future. With philanthropic support, it could soon be the technologically-savvy setting that is representative of NCH hospital rooms.
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January 25, 2011
ER physicians understand the anguish and challenges of modern healthcare. We are on the frontline, taking the heat and feeling the pain. Our only defense is holding the shield of ‘trying to do the right thing.’ But this is where much of healthcare gets started, especially the ugly stuff (by nature unscheduled, unexpected and often times irresponsible).
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December 07, 2010
On November 22, Cerner was featured in a Kansas City Star article about health and nutrition in the workplace:...Perhaps no company nationally has pushed further to tie food service to employee health than Cerner.Even the arrangement of the chip rack in Cerner’s cafeteria is telling: Healthier baked chips get the top rack; fattier fried snacks are put at ankle height.Also, the company, which has restyled itself from a technology firm to a health care company, is sponsoring a “Slimdown Throwdown” contest to encourage employee teams to lose weight. The prize will be an expenses-paid vacation for the winning team.
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