A recent study, highlighted last... Read More
This is the first time I have ever written for a blog, so to ease in to it, I thought I would share something I’ve read that has interrupted my thinking recently, The Checklist Manifesto. Author Atul Gawande is a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s in Boston as well as being a staff writer for the New Yorker. ... Read More
A discussion of social media and its benefits.
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Ed Bennett (@EdBennett) runs a great blog that successfully brings the worlds of social media and healthcare together. He provides social media resources to healthcare professionals, and can be counted on to provide the latest statistics on what hospitals are doing what when it comes to social media. I found some of his recent postings particularly [...]
On Sunday, July 24, CBS premiered a new show called Same Name. Running for six consecutive Sunday evenings, the show features celebrities who switch places with regular people who share their name. They learn what it’s like to live the life of someone else and see the world through their eyes. The August 7th episode featured [...]
We have learned from other industries like, nuclear and aviation, that highly-reliable environments depend on understanding how the environment and the objects in the environment shape human behavior. Furniture is one of those objects.
We realized that people in positions like Eileen’s (CEO or Commander in the military) are usually focused on the budget, when reviewing a furniture proposal because they don’t speak the same “language” as the designer. Depending on the designer’s background, various features may or may not be pointed out as salient features. We felt that having a tool with a common language that all could use made a lot of sense.
