18
October
2006
Well it has been over 2 months since my last post and alot has happened.
For one, I am working again in a hospital and I couldn’t be happier. Consulting was interesting, but my heart wanted to be back on the provider side. My new role is Director of Special Projects in the Human Resources department of Stanford Hospital and Clinics. I am not quite as close to patient care as I would like, but I am grateful to be working on some great projects in an important department.
Second, I am plugged in again. While working in consulting, I didn’t feel like I was fighting the good fight anymore. I was in healthcare, but I wasn’t working for an organization whose purpose was serving patients. After a while, I felt like I lost touch with the good guys. So now I am in an organization where everything matters again, where every decision impacts patient care. Now I can’t not be plugged in to what is happening in healthcare - to what is right in healthcare and what isn’t. It is a good feeling.
And now that I am plugged in again, I am eager to start writing posts. I hope you will join me again to fight the good fight for hospitals and for patients.
Stay tuned.
Posted: Random Thoughts
21
July
2006
I just wanted my regular readers to know that I am still here and committed to writting posts once a week. The past few weeks I have been occupied with a “personal issue” that I hope to share more about with Healthcare Tomorrow readers when it resolves. Until then bear with me and see my posts on Hospital Impact (I feel more guilty if I don’t write a post for Tony once a week).
Posted: Random Thoughts
7
March
2006
I am a consultant? – Yesterday was my first day of actual, on-site, appear-to-know-what-I-am-doing consulting and…it went pretty well. We spent the first hour or so putting together the computers we would need for training, but then we really got started. We ended up training a handful of users on our software and really got them started on our process. The users seemed to understand what we were asking of them and I even think there were a few “ah-ha” moments. We didn’t offer profound, unknowable wisdom…we just got them started on the right foot. I know our executive sponsor was pleased that we were there.
I was happy to be back in a hospital again. I do feel like our software and process truly helps hospitals provide safer (at least more compliant) care and that is gratifying. I could see how consulting on billing practice or construction management benefits the hospital and leads to better patient care, but we are truly dealing with how the hospital provides care and what it does to make it better. That is what I got into healthcare for.
And so far I haven’t stolen anybody’s watch…to subsequently tell them the time.
Posted: Random Thoughts
