Tag: Patient Safety

I was nominated to do the ALS "Ice Bucket Challenge." I think I was officially the last person to do so, judging from my...

There are certainly many serious problems in healthcare. Let's look at nursing, in particular. It's a rewarding job, but it's far more frustrating for...

Today's post is a link to my article written for the LinkedIn "Influencers" series: Why Every Patient Deserves the Care & Caution that Surrounds the...

We all know the beaver is "the engineer of the animal kingdom." That's why MIT has a beaver as a mascot... it's an engineer...

Listen: Episode #205 is a conversation with Joe Schnur, VP Business Development at Intelligent M, a company that "designs data-driven hand hygiene compliance  improvement solutions for...

I recently saw a tweet that referenced a May 2014 that was sent to President Obama and his administration: "Report to the President - Better HealthCare...

I received a tweet the other day from what appears to be a patient safety advocacy group. That's always great to see. However, I am...

Listen My guest for Episode #203 (and for Part 2 of our discussion in episode #207) is Chris Jerry, founder of The Emily Jerry Foundation.  The...

As I sometimes do, I'm going to close out a bunch of browser tabs and share some articles that caught my eye recently but...

Today is the first day of the 5th annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit. Follow along on Twitter with hashtag #HCSummit14 to see my tweets and thoughts from others....

Happy June, everybody! Summer is here. We've actually had a delightfully long spring here in San Antonio, which means the temperature hasn't really been...

Sorry to get all Katie Couric on you, but I'm going to have a colonoscopy on Friday. I turned 40 last October and I...