Healthcare Products That Work is an emerging frontier for state of the art design principles … according to an article from FastCompany’s sister site devoted to design (fastcodesign.com).

The magazine’s Alan Velzy states:

Physician Bullying is a surprisingly large issue especially for medical students and recent residency graduates according to an article I just found on BMJ Careers’ website. This is a well written article with an 8 article bibliography summarizing research on Physician Bullying. They even document the following physician bullying types.

Stress and Doctors = Mindfulness Meditation

The research is becoming overwhelming that Mindfulness Meditation is the most powerful moment to moment stress reducing, burnout preventing technique for physicians. The challenge is getting that awareness out of the ivory towers of research and translating it into simple techniques a  practicing doctor can use on the fly.

Patient Satisfaction in the hospital setting isn’t so hard after all.I just ran across this study from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) that is a massive reinforcement of common sense. Let me ask your opinion …

Which do you think would produce better hospital outcomes and patient satisfaction.

a) If the nurse waits for patients to push the call button and then takes care of their specific issue?

b) If the nurses round regularly, checking in on patients whether they push the call button or not and that this is a routine expectation for the performance of their job?

You got it. (b) wins.

IN FACT … this one change took Patient satisfaction ratings from 50-60% up to 99%.

Primary Care Physician Pay – you ready for a raise?

Physician Wellness and a satisfying medical career mean saying “no” to endless hours and solo practice for many younger physicians.

Hospital Customer Service … a disappearing Oxymoron.

What happens when an addictive Facebook App eventually causes positive health effects on purpose. I personally believe that social gaming and crowdsourcing are two areas to pay CLOSE ATTENTION TO  in the coming years

Here is an article on the state of health causing social gaming at the present time from Science2.0.com.

Health Costs in the USA
What does the Inverted Pyramid mean?

A recent report by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) confirmed health costs distribution across the patient spectrum first reported in 1996 that are mind boggling and – at the same time – not unexpected by practicing physicians.