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Residency program guides can be a very helpful tool for doctors in training. Most programs have a guide that has been developed over a long period of time with a lot of information being added through experience and necessity. If you are starting a new program, you might not have a good idea of where to even start putting one together. What do the residents need?

Most start off with an ...

In healthcare, making an administrative choice to use a piece of software in a clinical setting or not isn’t quite the same decision as making a choice to operate on someone or not. However, that software could affect the decision to operate on someone, and should not be discounted.

As with deciding on how to treat a patient, a variety of information and factors should be considered when ...

Last night I had a dream that I was at the hospital and they were short on doctors. It was a weird one with a couple random high school buddies I haven’t talked to in many years. One of my friends, who actually is a clinical psychologist in real life, threw me a white coat and said “It’s time for you to learn.” After a few minutes of being convinced that I can learn all of med school in a few ...

Pagers, laptops, desktop computers, rolling mobile desktops, printed sheets, handwritten notes, flash cards…. It really boggles the mind how anything is kept straight in the massive constant flow of information and communication around a 770 bed hospital serving almost 30,000 inpatients per year between 550 physicians.

We had the opportunity to watch a residency program in action. From ...

Not everyone has the opportunity to sit down with a client and really develop something useful for a whole team. Medicine is especially tough. The complexities of the inner workings of a medical program/ hospital/ practice partnership run deep through many layers of management and administration full of different personalities.

From one perspective, a solution may save countless hours and ...