Every day I walk into the very large hospital complex and encounter family members and visitors bewildered and mesmerized with the complexity of getting around the medical center. I suggest development of an in house GPS system. Issue gps units to visitors and families in the lobby (swipe a credit card or something for deposit), use their smart phones or issue free apps. It should increase family and visitor satisfaction and make the medical center seem like a top ten futuristic place. It may also enable security to track whereabouts of all visitors and help us find family for consents to also improve efficiency.
Authors
Mitch Keamy is an anesthesiologist in Las Vegas Nevada
Andy Kofke is a Professor of Neuro-anesthesiology and Critical Care at the University of Pennslvania
Mike O'Connor is Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the University of Chicago
Rob Dean is a cardiac anesthesiologist in Grand Rapids Michigan, with extensive experience in O.R. administration.
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- the underwear drawer
- The Westmead Anaesthesia Blog
- UPENN_ANESTHESIOLOGY
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- Notes of an Anesthesioboist: Pain and Suffering
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- Johnson: Physicians Could Run System - washingtonpost.com
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- intueri: to contemplate
- See? P.R!
- GAO Report Confirms: Medicare Underpays for Anesthesia Services
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O'Connor
- Lost in Cyberspace
- The Pen is Mightier than the Computer
- An article about CHIT that everyone should read!
- Update on CHIT
- It's All CHIT To Me
- Big Brother: Coming Soon to a Hospital Near You!
- The Inspections Will Continue Until the Quality Improves...
- Evil Humors
- Wondering
- The Saga of the NHS continues - in the BBC & elsewhere
- More on the performance of nationalized health care
- Saving the Brain
- Pain: The Sixth Vital Sign?
- We’re from the government, and we’re here to help.
- Everyone does it, but no one writes about it
- Hiding the Bodies
- Experience
- The Academic Struggle
Kofke
- Medical Idiocracy
- Its not continuous quality improvement, its CQD
- Medical Idiocracy
- Incrementally Applied Multimodal Neuroprotection in Neurocritical Care
- I Use The BIS Monitor For A Lot More Than Just Preventing Awareness!
- Awareness in the Persistent Vegetative State
- Should physicians be the leaders of anesthesiology?
- Deep Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest for Aortic Arch Surgery: A Global Brain Ischemia Situation
- Doc in a Box
- Being Best At Who We Are
- Patient Safety in Anesthesia...A success story
- Brain Damage From Anesthetics
- Using all the evidence
- Postoperative Visual Loss (POVL)
- the path to new knowledge
Keamy
- The trouble with tribbles...
- Merry BIS-mess to you!
- Donation after Cardiac Death: Is mostly dead slightly alive?
- We have met the enemy, and he is us....
- Good Anesthesia Matters!
- on Memory and Reminiscence
- Contemplating Quality.
- Strength for the Journey
- Impaired physicians-administrative issues
- the common dark of all our deaths...
- Impaired Physicians Part III- Clinical Competence, a Moving Target
- Impaired Physicians Part II - Insight
- Impaired Physicians
- "There's a lot of stuff goes on."
- Whack-a-mole!
- General Anesthesia is really a drug induced coma
- Sleep and Death are Brothers...
- Axe Handles...
- The Nature of Anesthesia Judgment
- Hours of Boredom, Moments of Terror...
- of Bomb Shelters and belladonna
- The Preop interview and personal salvation
- Surgery with a warranty?
- Wu Wei and the Anesthesia life
- Anesthesia and Flying
- Good Judgement Comes from Experience...
- Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes...
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