Use the Comments Section to Pose Your Questions to Google
January 10, 2010
Posted by chcablogadmin in : Industry Trends, Innovation, Web 2.0 & Social Media
We need your input as we finalize the February Executive Dialogue session at Google’s Mountain View headquarters.
Google plans to lead us through an action-packed, intimate look at how they foster innovation through culture, people and processes. Topics include:
- cloud computing
- devices (the Android)
- earth, outer space and music (Google Lunar X PRIZE, Google Earth and YouTube Symphony)
- electronic health records
- Google Health PHR
- empowering consumers through new health search innovations (Flu Trends and Flu Tracker)
- combining art and technology (iGoogle Artist Themes and Doodle 4 Google)
You will have several opportunities to ask questions throughout the afternoon. Please post a comment (link below) with your question(s) to Google so we make sure the right folks there to answer them for you.
No holds barred! Ask away!
add a commentClinical Comparative Effectiveness for Pediatric Providers
January 10, 2010
Posted by chcablogadmin in : Quality
Narendra Kini, M.D., M.H.A.
In a very simple sense, clinical comparative effectiveness means delivering predictable outcomes in a reliable manner that is measurable compared to best-in-class benchmarks. In plain English, getting what you expected and needed every time. Children’s hospitals are increasingly investing in checklist instruments, LEAN and Six Sigma as well as evidence-based protocols to get at the former. The latter, however, requires the cultural mindset of the aviation industry and the automated environment of the banking industry. These efforts are underway with clinical transformation, evidence-based design as well as EMR/digitization efforts.
The very nature of pediatrics has fueled innovation as well as a willingness to try out new things but pediatric providers are people who come to work because they really care about other aspects of the family and child as well. This largess of the heart can be the very reason why implementation may be more difficult in children’s hospitals. We are here for the family and act like a big family. The very notion of clinical sterility imposed by checklists/benchmarks and trends/alerts driven by automation seem inherently alien. However, if one can harness the very same passion that drives folks in children’s hospitals to go beyond the call of duty then we have a fertile ground for radical innovation. There is a significant gap in our knowledge base when it comes to ethnically appropriate care. Even more so, the adoption rate of evidence-based medicine is still far from optimal. There have not yet been incentives to promote this model of care and research in children still lags that of adults. These must be addressed if we are to experience the full potential of clinical comparative effectiveness.
How are you helping your staff balance the need to provide exceptional, personalized service for patients and their families with the need to implement operational efficiencies and standardized care plans? Please comment.
