The latest episode of Conversations on Health Care is now up on the CHCRadio website and on iTunes. You can listen this afternoon on WESU in Middletown, CT and on other radio stations over the coming week. I am also posting the information here for people who want to subscribe to an RSS feed of the show or listen to it with other podcast clients.
Last Thursday during a weekly TweetChat about community health centers the topic of drug resistant bacteria came up which led to some interesting comments about pharmacists at community health centers. I mentioned that we have some pharmacists and pharmacy students at CHC and was asked to provide more information about it. Unfortunately, I didn’t know an awful lot, so I decided it was best to put things off, do some research and then put up this blog post. When I…
Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is Absence of Quality is the essence of squareness. – Robert Pirsig This morning, Health Affairs had a Briefing: Still Crossing the Quality Chasm. They also put up a blog post, Hospital Errors Ten Times More Common Than Thought?. It referred back to the Institute of Medicine’s landmark report, Crossing the Quality Chasm, which yesterday’s Conversations on Health Care guest, Dr. Lucian Leape helped write. I must admit, when I…
The latest episode of Conversations on Health Care is now up on the CHCRadio website and on iTunes. You can listen this afternoon on WESU in Middletown, CT and on other radio stations over the coming week. I am also posting the information here for people who want to subscribe to an RSS feed of the show or listen to it with other podcast clients. Conversations on Health Care focuses this week on patient safety – how far we’ve come and what…
Today, Americans from around the country are calling Senators urging them to support the Corporation for National and Community Service, the parent organization of AmeriCorps. Working at CHC, I’ve seen some of the great work that AmeriCorps members do in our communities. I mentioned this in a blog post about our diabetic retinopathy program which has benefited greatly from one of our AmeriCorps members. One response that I received was the suggestion that I write about two specific AmeriCorps Alumni. So,…
Happy April Fool’s day everyone. Have you found any good pranks? One that everyone has been pointing out to me is Google Motion. One of the ideas that they present is that Google Motion is designed to increase physical activity by getting users out of their chairs and moving around. In a similar vein, one of the pranks suggested on DoSomething.org’s blog post, April Fools Pranks for Social Good suggests “Encourage some exercise. Snatch the keys to your friend’s car…