Video tour of the Cleveland Clinics new heart center with its architects

"Take a video tour of the Cleveland Clinics new heart center with NBBJ architects Edwin Beltran, senior associate, and Lisa Baker, ASID, IIDA. The nearly 1-million-square-foot Miller Family Pavilion serves as the main entrance to Cleveland Clinic and the home of the Cleveland Clinic Heart & Vascular Institute.

The double-height main lobby is bright with soaring luminous white walls, terrazzo floors, frosted interior glass, and floor-to-ceiling windows that infuse the space with natural light."

Using Google Docs to facilitate patient flow in a health center via a shared spreadsheet

From Google Docs Blog:

"It is difficult to keep track of which patients are in which rooms, how many patients are in the waiting room, and how far the doctors are falling behind with their patients for the day. If patients were late, canceled their appointments, or the waiting room was overflowing, the doctor would be the last to know."

As an experiment, Southeast Health Center incorporated the “Check-in Tracker”, a shared spreadsheet on Google Docs, into their clinic flow which you can see a sample of below:

Image source: Google Docs Blog.

"When a patient checks in at the front desk, the clerk types “a” into the slot where that patient was scheduled. Using the “change color with rules” function, that slot turns orange to let everybody in the clinic know that Dr. Mark’s 8:15 AM patient has arrived. If the 8:55 AM patient arrives at 9:15 AM, the front desk types in “L 9:15” into that slot and the slot turns pink. Dr. Mark can look at the Google spreadsheet and type an “x” if he is unable to see the late patient or “ok” if he has time to see the patient. Patients in rooms turn green and indicate which room number. Discharged patients turn blue.

Everybody communicates in real time, because we are all signed into the same account."

References:
Using Google Docs to facilitate patient flow in a community health center. Google Docs Blog.

Tips for social media for employees at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center: what you write is forever

By the Dartmouth-Hitchcock-YouTube channel:

Social media is everywhere... and what you write is forever.

A simple rule: If you would like something loud in the cafeteria full from people who say, shouldn't say it on Facebook, Twitter or other social media sites.

How can social networks be used? Planned even if your own phone and you only Tweet is quick to send only can social media for personal reasons on their own time, such as during breaks or meals you.

What is not allowed?

-Posting protected health information or personally identifiable information for patients

-With the help of information created, or for the Dartmouth Hitchcock such as logos, photos, and videos - without the consent of the Department of marketing and public relations. Registered content.

-The creation of social media sites that are branded without the consent of Public Relations and marketing as Dartmouth Hitchcock.

I have a short list of suggestions for medical bloggers for several years. Here it is:

Tips for medical bloggers

Write you as if your boss and your patients every day reading your blog
Compliance of HIPAA law
-Should the use of their name and the login information for your blog and other social networking accounts
-If your blog is connected to work, it is advisable to know your employer.
Inform you if an employee social media guidelines. If it is not strictly under them.
-Verwenden is a disclaimer, such as "all opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and not of the employer. Information for medical education is only here. "Is not as intended and is not a substitute for medical advice".
-Holen you credited to your blog by Heath on the Net Foundation

Here is how the rise of the ePhysican to facilitate works of the hand with the ePatient:



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