tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4384692836709903146.post6838782165026518852..comments2024-03-27T09:55:23.143-07:00Comments on Dispatch from the Digital Health Frontier: An About Face on Flexible Work ArrangementsJohn Halamkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04550236129132159307noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4384692836709903146.post-61853250245551268972007-10-25T00:25:00.000-07:002007-10-25T00:25:00.000-07:00Patient care may benefit as well, by using technol...Patient care may benefit as well, by using technology to support clinician interactions with patients. There are many exciting possibilities: virtual housecalls with webcam and blood pressure monitor and blood sugar monitor and weight scale, as one simple example. Indeed, the American College of Physicians is promoting such a concept with its "Medical Home" model of care. By so doing, patients and doctors are freed from the inconveniences of office visits, which are so hard to schedule and get to nowadays. With the shortage of primary care physicians, time can more appropriately be spent on sick visits and complex cases, while routine follow-up care can be done on-line. Already, in underserved areas, physicians are monitoring patients in multiple intensive care units on-line. Radiology studies are interpreted on-line. E-mail communication between patients and providers has been promoted by your own Daniel Sands, MD, but has been stymied by antiquated Medicare policies.erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16137189911651175163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4384692836709903146.post-52289952083617523542007-10-23T05:24:00.000-07:002007-10-23T05:24:00.000-07:00Great post. We need more CIOs stepping out, so to ...Great post. We need more CIOs stepping out, so to speak, on this topic. Take a look at <A HREF="http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b02/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=R0405J" REL="nofollow">"Can Absence Make a Team Grow Stronger?"</A>, research we did with two biz school profs on "far-flung" teams (meaning not face-to-face) pub'd in Harvard Business Review. Among other findings, these teams, largely engaged in complex software development, never met F2F--not even for the kick-offs. Overall, they reduced development time and came in ahead of schedule and under-budget. Personally, I hated the non-F2F finding as I'm a people junkie but, alas, data is data.jessica lipnackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04110581536504870587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4384692836709903146.post-44769420603126903772007-10-23T05:15:00.000-07:002007-10-23T05:15:00.000-07:00In the area of my special interest -- health care ...In the area of my special interest -- health care organizational ethics -- there is a useful aphorism: if the CEO is not the "Chief Ethics Officer" ethics programs are likely to be a waste of time. Your first 3 entries lead me to a new aphorism: we need the CIO to be "Chief Integrity Officer" as well. The work arrangements post highlights questions of worker integrity &, via awareness of the environmental costs of commuting, planetary integrity as well! And the final two sentences of the first post could come from an "ethics" article, with their emphasis on trust and stewardship. I look forward to continuing to learn from this fascinating blog. Thank you for writing it so that non-techies like me can read it. I invite readers of this blog to look into the related world of health care organizational ethics at http://healthcareorganizationalethics.blogspot.comJim Sabinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03087828142188534542noreply@blogger.com