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Homecoming: Southwestern Vermont Medical Center by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert

Posted Thu 04 Mar 2010 12:00am I spent Monday and Tuesday of this week visiting Kevin Robinson and his marketing team at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC). What a great trip. To start...! One of the things I had forgotten about Vermont is how nice and laid back the people are. Southwestern Vermont Medical Center is perched up on a hill in a residential part Read on »

Software Audit System Shuts Down Swedish Medical Center Medical Records for 4 Hours by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted Wed 26 Jan 2011 3:52pm -hour shutdown of Swedish Medical Center's centralized electronic medical-records system Monday morning was caused by a glitch in another company's software, said Swedish chief information officer Janice Newell. The system, made by Epic Systems, a Wisconsin-based electronic medical-records vendor, turned itself off because it noticed an error in the add Read on »

POLL: What is your medical center’s largest obstacle to EHR adoption? by Jamie C. Patient Expert

Posted Wed 18 Nov 2009 12:00am [poll id="10"] [+] Read on »

Patient Centered IT in medical tourism « Patient Centered IT by Dr. Aniruddha M. Medical Doctor

Posted Sat 06 Nov 2010 8:03pm Patient Centered IT in medical tourism « Patient Centered IT : "Medical tourism is special in many aspects. Patients travel first to be treated. Main drivers for this behavior are quality and/or price. This makes medical tourism a real market scenario with real customers." This is a thoughtful post which helps to explains why many medical Read on »

Patient Centered Medical Home: The Regional Extension Center (REC) and Beacon Communities by Brian Ahier Posted Thu 21 Oct 2010 7:00am The Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative Centers for eHealth Adoption and Exchange and the Center for Multi-Stakeholder Demonstrations provided a webinar regarding two HITECH programs: The Regional Extension Center (REC) and Beacon Communities. Mat Kendall, Acting Director of the Office of Provider Adoption Support (OPAS) discussed Read on »

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center’s New Brand Identity by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert

Posted Tue 22 Mar 2011 5:52am Last week Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center unveiled a new brand identity that effectively consolidates all of its clinical operations under a single visual brand identity while shortening the name of the main campus to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. No more reference to “University.” According to a press release, “the most Read on »

UC Irvine Medical Center is Named a Designated Stroke Receiving Center – Orange County by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted Sat 09 May 2009 10:41pm The facility is set up to handle transient ischemic attacks, or mini-strokes. To qualify as a center there needs to be a dedicated medical director and an emergency... — UCI Medical Center, equipped to provide state-of-the-art stroke care, is the first hospital in Southern California to be recognized as a designated stroke receiving center Read on »

Lexington Medical Center’s Christmas Commercial by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert

Posted Mon 14 Dec 2009 12:00am Each year my friends at Lexington Medical Center in West Columbia, SC produce a special holiday TV commercial. They handle their advertising in-house, so... Center and a North Tower Patient Room. I can only imagine that this was a very challenging spot to write and produce. I’m curious what you think. Take a look at the spot below Read on »

Tufts Medical Center’s CEO on the Escalating Costs of Healthcare by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert

Posted Mon 22 Mar 2010 12:00am On Friday, March 19, 2010, Ellen Zane, the CEO of Tufts Medical Center and the Floating Hospital for Children testified before the Massachusetts Division of Healthcare Finance and Policy’s Health Care Provider and Payer Cost Trend Hearings. I’ve worked with Tufts Medical Center for several years now and have a great respect for Ellen Zane. She Read on »

Vermont Folklife Center Exhibit Revisits the Nearings’ Good Life by Chelsea Green Patient Expert

Posted Thu 27 Aug 2009 5:55pm No other couple has had as deep an impact on the back-to-the-land movment of the 60s and 70s—and on Vermont—as Helen and Scott Nearing. The Vermont Folklife Center honors them this month with the exhibit “Almost Utopia: In Search of the Good Life in Mid-Century America,” which continues until September 5th at the Vermont Folklife [...] Read on »