It’s Never Too Late: Process Improvements After An EHR Implementation
It has become widely accepted that electronic health record systems have the capacity to improve quality in the healthcare industry by reducing or eliminating errors. For this to be successful…
Epion Health Introduces A Tablet To Increase Health Literacy
Epion Health is improving the delivery of health care and health education through Smart Screen®. The mounting health literacy dilemmas lead to the development of Smart Screen® which is designed…
Improving Health in the Workplace
In honor of National Employee Wellness Month, we wanted to take some time to recognize several of our PFCD partners for their commitment to improving health in the workplace. In…
How Do You Talk About Cancer?
When We Talk About Cancer, What Can We Talk About? When We Talk About Cancer, What Can We Talk About?Cancer. It’s a diagnosis – and even a word – no…
Liberating Structures for Enduring Culture Change: A Disruptive Innovation (part 2)
This is Part 2 of a two-part post featuring how Liberating Structures (LS) have been applied to cultural change efforts and to prevent the transmission of superbugs. Part 1 featured Dr. Michael Gardam and…
So That’s How Exercise Burns Calories
Ever since I was a child I was frustrated when I got incomplete answers to my, I’d like to think, probing questions. Why is the sky blue? Did you get a…
The Cookie-Cutter Medicine Fallacy
By Michael Halpern(The following is reprinted from the Health Affairs blog) By Michael Halpern(The following is reprinted from the Health Affairs blog)About a year ago, some medical symptoms that I’ve…
TEXTING, NOT SMOKING
Few of our patients at Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center smoke tobacco, but the majority are 'consistent' and 'heavy' marijuana smokers. In fact, it's pretty unusual to have a patient…
Facebook Portal “RegisterPatient” Allows for Secure Patient-Physician Communications
According to the press release it is HIPAA compliant and allows for private conversations between patients and doctors. It doesn’t cost anything for patients but is any of the information…
