Matt Dayer is a nurse and can be reached on Twitter @DayerRn.

IT deficits are eating hospital profits. CEOs need to wake up.

Tech
March 3, 2020

I work for a hospital network with the world’s slowest computers.  I timed it: Last shift, it took me fifteen minutes to log on. The first computer obtained didn’t function at all.  It had been worked on the day before by information technology services (IT).

Efficiency and time management appear to be amongst top priorities in medicine. “Did they get their aspirin 24 hours after getting their clot-busting drug after cleared …

Read more…

IT deficits are eating hospital profits. CEOs need to wake up.

When a medical facility isn’t equipped to handle profound mental health issues

Conditions
December 30, 2019

A person rolls into an outpatient clinic. A pleasant bleach smell emanates from freshly scrubbed chairs. Happy chatter about people’s lives, and this week’s health issues are dimmed by the local radio station playing in the background.

The person who just rolled in for the first time has a confoundingly complicating diagnosis. It’s not the first sized holes in their body under their urine-soaked shorts they initially refuse to take off. …

Read more…

When a medical facility isn’t equipped to handle profound mental health issues