Best Practices for Communicating Test Results

Via one widely quoted Archives of Internal Medicine study:

To our knowledge, no guidelines exist to delineate the processes that practices should use to manage test results. Based on our review of the literature and a pilot study that we conducted, we defined "good processes" for managing test results as the following: (1) all results are routed to the responsible physician; (2) the physician signs off on all results; (3) the practice informs patients of all results, normal and abnormal, at least in general terms; (4) the practice documents that the patient has been informed; and (5) patients are told to call after a certain time interval if they have not been notified of their results.

The Most Creative People in Health Care

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Fast Company published a list of the "Top 10 Most Creative People in Health Care." Equally interesting is ScienceRoll's list of 10 people they missed.

David Pogue's Productivity Secrets

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David Pogue is the technology editor of the New York Times. Some interesting ideas. Worth a look.

"Dear David," wrote a reader recently. "When will you share your productivity tips with us? Not everyone can write five books a year, file two columns a week, churn out a daily blog, speak 40 times a year and film a video every Thursday. What are your secrets?