Today I’m flying from Las Vegas to Seattle. About the only thing I liked about Sin City was the fountain show at Bellagio, the Elvis Christmas songs that popped up here and there, and a pretty good keynote address by Bill Clinton. Just thinking of...
Well before Starbucks began roasting exotic blends, Yuban took a swing at it. Not sure they hit the ball out of the park, but they were getting more for a pound of coffee than number-one Folgers at checkout stands across America. Do you remember Yuban...
The war the fathers of Tom Brokaw’s Greatest Generation Ever fought was not “the war to end all wars” as Woodrow Wilson had anticipated. It was followed by another world war, which soon after we started numbering. Pray God we won’t get to...
Eleven years into the Afghan war, the August 22, 2012 Seattle Times headline reported, “2,000 U.S. dead in war, as new dangers emerge”—a statistic disturbing to hawks and doves. Then this September 11, a year after the Ground Zero memorial opened in...
When my son graduated from high school, I compiled twenty suggestions for him. The list wasn’t terribly profound—hardly worth a book. Nevertheless, I think I offered a few pretty good ideas from “do your own laundry” to “start a business at...
For most of my years, the point of sale has been fixed at the front of the store. We shoppers have been gathering our goods and taking them to cashiers who manually key prices into registers and collect our cash (or Visa Cards, which were introduced the...
What’s good for healthcare providers is good for technology providers
For the past ten days I’ve been embroiled in site visits and presentations at some of Australia’s leading hospitals. I’ve also addressed several gatherings of technology...
The hungry Bermuda Triangle is out my window to the west. I’m on a nine-hour flight between Washington DC and Sao Paul to address I Simpósio Internacional de Farmácia Hospitalar e Clínica. My title is “Traceability and Patient Safety in the Drug...
New research, "Medication administration quality and health information technology: a national study of US hospitals," is the subject of a report. According to the authors of a study from Hanover, New Hampshire, "Objective To determine whether the use of...
12 EHR Vendors That Stand Out (click image for larger view and for slideshow) Fewer than 10 providers in the country are integrating their electronic medical record (EMR) system with smart pumps and only 60% of providers currently have the proper wireless...