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Stop Medical Distancing

July 7, 2020 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic hospitals are facing catastrophic financial challenges. The American Hospital Association estimates a four-month impact of $202.6 billion in losses for hospitals and health systems - That’s an average of $50.7 billion per month. With these mounting losses some systems ands organizations have jumped on board with a media ... Continue Reading about Stop Medical Distancing

Tagged With: COVID, Hospital marketing, Hospitals

Hospitals, Patients, Social/Public Media

CNN, the Mayo Clinic and Healthcare’s Dialog Double Standard

August 16, 2018 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

The CNN Mayo Clinic hatchet job illustrates a dilemma faced by health care organizations. Specifically, the position hospitals find themselves in when wrongly accused of patient mistreatment. Those connected with the alleged mistreatment have the ability to say what they want without accountability. But health privacy law prevents hospitals from publicly defending ... Continue Reading about CNN, the Mayo Clinic and Healthcare’s Dialog Double Standard

Tagged With: HIPAA, Hospital marketing, Hospitals, Social media

Hospitals

Sutter Health and the Changing Face of the Working Doctor

February 3, 2018 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

A California doctor accuses Sutter Health of ...engaging in unlawful and unfair business practices, including wrongfully terminating and punishing doctors who disagree with, and refuse to follow, various policies and practices of the giant health care system. Those policies and practices, as detailed in the lawsuit, include reducing "Leakage" (the referral of ... Continue Reading about Sutter Health and the Changing Face of the Working Doctor

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Hospitals, Information, Social/Public Media

Pokemon Go and Medical Mindfulness

July 17, 2016 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minute

Hospital workers are caught up in the Pokemon Go craze and it's begun to raise concerns. Between rooming patients it seems there's just enough time to snag a Vaporeon. Some health care facilities have shut it down amidst concerns that selfies and snapshots risk the transmission of PHI. While Pokemon Go raises new challenges around privacy, the greater challenge ... Continue Reading about Pokemon Go and Medical Mindfulness

Tagged With: Attention, Hospitals, medical mindfulness

Featured, Hospitals

Health Care and the Visibility-Value Continuum

February 17, 2015 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

Last evening I followed a live Twitter event that Baylor Scott and White Health conducted around a heart transplant.  You can see the stream at #HeartTXLive. Rethinking live events in health care While I’ve not been a fan of live Twitter events, this one made me think.  Social health events once conceived in dry, 3rd person narrative have evolved. High def images ... Continue Reading about Health Care and the Visibility-Value Continuum

Tagged With: Hospital marketing, Hospitals

Hospitals, Physicians

Weekend Medicine

January 20, 2015 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minute

It’s remarkable that hospitals still keep weekend schedules. On Saturday and Sunday, things stop.  They don’t stop, but they really do.  ORs operate with emergency staffing. Routine diagnostic imaging is held until Monday morning. Saturday and Sunday schedules are a throwback to a time when the tempo of health care was set by the doctor’s rounds and the hands of a ... Continue Reading about Weekend Medicine

Tagged With: Hospitals, Physicians

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Bryan Vartabedian is a pediatrician at Baylor College of Medicine / Texas Children’s Hospital and one of health care’s influential voices on technology & medicine.
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