Consolidating 80 Websites: Chris Boyer [PODCAST]
In January of 2013, Chris Boyer accepted a massive challenge; join the North Shore LIJ Health System to create a unified digital presence. The challenge? There were at least 80 websites, known…
The Lessons of Stuart Scott
Stuart Scott accepting the Jimmy V Award Stuart Scott accepting the Jimmy V AwardPeople live and people die every day with cancer. Often people deal with it silently. There are…
How to Get Some Love from Pinterest’s New Smart Feed
Pinterest is one of the fastest growing social networks! As of June 2014, it about 53 million monthly active users in the U.S. Pinterest is one of the fastest growing…
HealthWorks Collective Connects People for a Better Healthcare Business
As an emergency medicine physician, I work at the gateway to the hospital. For many patients, this is their only gateway to our healthcare system at all. The emergency department…
4 Things to Understand About Youth, Mental Health and Juvenile Justice in the US
Almost 2 million youth – those under the age of 18 – are arrested each year in the US, which is more than 5,000 delinquency cases per day. Of those,…
Making a Case for Sustainable Health Care
A new report from the UN University's Institute for Water, Environment and Health points out the potential escalation of Dengue risk due to climate change. The study found that as…
How a VNA Unifies Clinical Data Throughout an Enterprise
The archive preserves information in a vendor-neutral format, and is available across the enterprise for access. The archive preserves information in a vendor-neutral format, and is available across the enterprise…
How IROs Increase ROI
How Does Outsourcing Save Money? When we talk about outsourcing, the first defense that’s likely to surface is, “won’t that cost more money?” Hospitals frequently make the mistake of assumin…
How Facebook Scares Me
Like any cancer survivor, I worry about what’s next. Am I bruising too much? Is this little “twinge” something serious? Is this just a cold, or could it be pneumonia?…
Surgical Sealants and Glues in the Balance of Wound Closure
Sealants and glues are emerging as important adjunctive tools for sealing staple and suture lines, and some of these products also are being employed as general hemostatic agents to control…
