I was struck during President Obama’s health care speech before Congress several months ago that the reforms he advocates would not go into effect for four years, until 2014. This timetable, too, is written into both the House and Senate versions.
Why the delay?
It is hard for me to imagine, even given the federal rulemaking [...]

As the Thanksgiving holiday weekend draws to a close, I want to give a “shout-out” to Robert Wiggins, President, and his staff at Gourmet Caterers in Roslindale, MA. Each year Mr. Wiggins donates dozens of gift certificates for Thanksgiving and Christmas “turkey dinners for 10 with all the trimmings” to charities who then auction [...]

I just read a newspaper article reporting that users of http://www.bedbugregistry.com/ have been reporting the most complaints in Toronto and Vancouver.
I checked out the “registry” and find it both fun and enlightening. Check it out!
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The Engage with Grace blog rally has spread far and wide, for the second year. Here is a list of participants that I have seen so far. I’ll keep adding. If I missed you, please submit a comment with the name and url, and I will update this posting.
Matthew Holt’s The Health [...]

This is a short break from Engage with Grace to consider the other end of the spectrum of life. Each year on the night before Thanksgiving, our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) holds a small party called “An Evening of Thanks”. It is a chance for parents and their now-larger babies to return [...]

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2010 is approaching fast. This is the time of year I start watching out for crystal ball predictions of what’s in store for us.
For example, check out IBM’s vision for 2010, Pharma 2010: The Threshold of Innovation (pdf).
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“Brain-Like Chip May Solve Computers’ Big Problem: Energy. The future of computing may depend on embracing the chaos that defines human thinking”. Full article @ discover.com.

Last Thanksgiving weekend, many of us bloggers participated in the first documented “blog rally” to promote Engage With Grace – a movement aimed at having all of us understand and communicate our end-of-life wishes.
It was a great success, with over 100 bloggers in the healthcare space and beyond participating and spreading the word. Plus, it [...]

“Søren Brunak at the Technical University of Denmark and Kasper Lage, now at the Broad Institute in Boston, developed a computational method to predict which proteins most likely cause a particular disease. [...] This study was one of the first to use computational methods to predict a gene–phenotype relationship.” article @ TheScientist.com.
K. Lage et al., [...]

Our Lean process improvement efforts proceed. The most dramatic evidence comes in the form of 5S process improvement events, but please recall that this is all part of a “tortoise-like” engagement throughout the whole hospital.
But check out the BEFORE and AFTER of the NICU supply room. This improvement took 6 weeks of prework and 2 [...]