If pilots took the same approach to flying that is commonly taken to medicine, no one would want to board a plane; there would be far too many plane crashes. That is the conclusion Dr. Atul Gawande and others arrived at after studying the use of checklists in different “mission critical” businesses. For history buffs, … [Read more…]
Rotary Clubs, NGOs and thousands of relief organizations and individuals worldwide have been pledging, coordinating and delivering emergency aid to communities in the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan flattened entire villages, killed thousands, and displaced over half a million others. E-Health Records International (EHRI), a Sebastopol, California software company, was able to facilitate $10,000 of donations … [Read more…]
The idea of marketing electronic health records to hospitals in impoverished developing countries may seem somewhat of a head-scratcher. How can you go from paper records to electronic medical records without the powerful computer network systems that for decades have been part of hospital infrastructure in wealthy nations? By using the powerful world of mobile … [Read more…]