SAGES 2016 – A Student and Patient Advisor Perspective
by Brian Do Having an abstract accepted by the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) for its conference last week in Boston was a high honor. Attending the …
What is workflow? Why is it important? How do I measure components of workflow?
If you were asked to picture or describe what constitutes workflow in a clinical setting, what comes to mind? Doctors coordinating care with their team? Nurses administering critical medications and …
mPOWEr poster at SAGES 2016
This past week at the annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Gastroenterological Surgery (@SAGES_Updates), our wonderful patient advisor, Brian Do, shared the development of mPOWEr and our pilot implementation highlights in …
“Do no harm” with mPOWEr?
Today’s New York Times Opinionator column focuses on hospital system efforts to “do no harm.” We couldn’t agree more that spotlighting the problem of healthcare associated infection and developing novel …
Thanks, ITHS!
Check out our feature today on the Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS) website: “The Doctor Will See You Now – Via Your Smartphone.” Thanks to seed funds from ITHS, we were …
Guest Blog Post: Use of Photography in Patient Care
Ed. Note: the mPOWEr team is delighted to welcome our first guest blogger, Dr. Kristy Kummerow Broman, general surgery resident at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and VA Quality Scholars Fellow in the Tennessee Valley Healthcare …
A great big thanks
We want to extend a our sincere thanks to all of the fantastic people in the UW Center for Reconstructive Surgery who interacted with the mPOWEr team over the past two weeks. …
More great news: JAMIA accepted our manuscript today
We just received word today that our paper “A patient-centered system in a provider-centered world: challenges of incorporating post-discharge wound data into practice” was accepted for publication in the Journal of …
mPOWEr Go-Live in the UWMC Center for Reconstructive Surgery!
It’s go time! Tonight, our team celebrates a very successful first week in the UW Medicine Center for Reconstructive Surgery. We want to thank the first group of patients who have agreed to use mPOWEr to …
mPOWEr on the Surgical Outcomes Club Webinar 10-22-15
Tune in on Thursday October 22 at 2pm EST to the Surgical Outcomes Club webinar. Heather will be presenting the latest on how we’ve developed mPOWEr and our plans …