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by adgrooms on October 1, 2019

I edited my Google Chrome bookmarks today, the important sites that are saved at the top of your browser screen. I had my work email, trello board, and my work depository. But it also included some weather sites, news sites, and fitness tracking sites. There lay the problem. It was time for a distraction destruction.

For a person that has a good amount of ADD, those other sites were the ...

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by adgrooms on September 6, 2019

We have spent some time in the past two weeks thinking about the contributors to burnout. To try to answer the question: What stressors are providers confronted with on a daily basis that could be reduced or eliminated? We have created a graphic to illustrate these contributors and give thought as to how they relate to and affect each other. Our goal is to give a clearer picture of all of the ...

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by adgrooms on September 3, 2019

Online ratings and feedback have become a driving force in business. Our eyes go straight to the star ratings when we make an online purchase. A majority of consumers read reviews and choose where to spend their money based on other consumers' experience. For healthcare, [70% of people say reviews are crucial to selecting a ...

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by adgrooms on August 27, 2019

We live in a culture that values disruptive innovation - from smartphones to electric cars. At this moment, someone is working on the next revolutionary idea that will theoretically change everyone's lives for the better. While radical changes may work well in the industrial setting, healthcare has a responsibility to patients that requires a more nuanced approach. With the need for process ...

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by adgrooms on August 22, 2019

In our journey to create a wellness resource, as we are meeting people and learning, each conversation and article generates new questions. We find that some have been answered and we think of more to ask...

Thinking of the processes that are burdensome to physicians and EHRs, in particular - What workflow optimizations are effective? What has been tried and found successful - that other ...

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