our own system
Hi there, I'm Drew Weilage and I'm working to make healthcare better for patients.
This is a blog with links to healthcare goings on, trends, and uncategorized interestingness as well as attempts to filter my own healthcare thinking through essay.
I am greatly aware of my idealistic, naive even, views on a number of topics. But frankly, I think healthcare is in dire need of more of the "what's possible/what could be" type of thinking. I'm greatly protective of my unabashed idealism but always open to reason and discourse about any of it.
This is round two of my blogging life, the first being archived here.
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Hand washing compliance
Someone told me once that if a hospital was serious about people washing their hands, they would fire anyone who didn’t. It’s getting closer to that. From NPR:
… she washes her hands a lot; she guesses at least 100 times a day. But her hospital’s administrators aren’t guessing — they have installed new devices to keep track.
With information transmitted wirelessly through a special badge Stone wears, the hospital can tell when she entered a patient’s room, whether she washed her hands and whether she washed again on the way out. The information is sent to hospital officials, including the CEO.
