A Pair of Docs Solve the Quick Question Paradox
Do you constantly have people contacting you to answer what they identify as a quick question? Many members of the Mirth Manual...
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- Aug 13
- 1 min
Oregon Hospital Launches New Role, Chief Weeds Officer
The Loyal Regional Hospital in Cannon Beach, Oregon will get into the weeds to help solve quality and efficiency issues. Marian Maize...
- Jul 4
- 1 min
Physician Nap Time to Start at Florida Hospital
Some hospitals have quiet time for patients to improve patient sleep; it’s thought to be conducive to healing. Sleepy Lane Medical Center...
- May 25
- 1 min
Are you on Team Disc or Team Disk?
Right now, at a hospital somewhere, a surgeon just performed a discectomy, and it’s important to know if, in the operative report, the...
- Apr 30
- 1 min
Hospitals Want Doctors to Ride the Revenue Cycle
“The revenue cycle is electric. “ -Margaret G. Spokes According to Margaret G. Spokes, MBA, chief financial officer at Greater Lane...
- Apr 18
- 1 min
New NET-EGD Procedure Should Get Doctors Talking
Most hospital leaders say, “We want doctors to communicate with each other!” Hershel T. Drum, M.D., chief executive officer at Western...
- Mar 27
- 1 min
Hospital Wants Doctors, Nurses with Happy Stomachs
When a radiologist at Antrum Medical Center exclaimed, “How would you react if this was your stomach?!” The hospital president replied,...
- Mar 13
- 2 min
Chief Medical Officer Wants Docs to Sign with a Sine Wave
Wellington Bowl, M.D., Chief Medical Officer at Winning Big Hospital in Boston, MA., has a great way to figure if clinical progress notes...
- Feb 6
- 1 min
Doctor Can't Take Board Exam, Got Wrong Coffee.
When getting the wrong coffee order affected a doctor’s board exam experience, the situation was brought to the Mirth Manual...
- Nov 29, 2022
- 2 min
Hospital Encourages Frivolous Chit Chat
Mainstay Hospital in Bismarck, ND is working out ways to get physicians to learn more about each other. Despite the communication...
- Nov 29, 2022
- 2 min
Hospital Explores Asymptotes to Improve Metrics
Alisha Pickens, M.B.A., Ph.D. chief financial officer at Mitchell Lipton Hospital in Reno, NV created a new quality-based philosophy...
- Nov 26, 2022
- 2 min
Prompt Proper Payments Promotes Poised Payer Plans
Physicians and hospitals review the PEPPER (Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report). This report focuses on...
- Nov 22, 2022
- 2 min
Doctor Refuses to Round Unless Pushed in Stroller
After reading our blog about Brainey, genius kid, many of our readers asked if we knew of other gifted children. And indeed, we do! Tank...
- Nov 8, 2022
- 2 min
Nephrologist Creates Water Hydration Patch
The Mirth Manual investigative team has discovered quite a lead. Dr. Melvin Hydromente, nephrologist at Homeostasis Hospital in Las...
- Oct 18, 2022
- 1 min
Plastic Surgeon Creates Hot Seat Flip
Dr. Jasper Reed, M.D., plastic surgeon at Renewed Youth Institute in Hollywood, FL has created a device that allows a person to opt out...
- Jul 30, 2022
- 2 min
Your Surgeon Could Taxi to the Operating Room
At High Flight Hospital in Kitty Hawk, NC, surgeons taxi their way down surgical runways to make operating room processes run...
- Jul 28, 2022
- 2 min
Doctor Wants to Wrench Around and Help
Jeffrey Trapp, MD, vascular surgeon at Jetting Hospital in New Orleans, LA, hopes to put a wrench around the problems in healthcare. Dr....
- Jun 7, 2022
- 2 min
Psychiatrist Makes Writing Read Right
Horacio Escriben, MD, psychiatrist at Everything’s Healthy Hospital in Phoenix, AZ, has discovered the code behind doctors’ handwriting....
- Mar 31, 2022
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Hospital to Onboard Physicians with Slumber Party
Jackson Parker, M.D., trauma surgeon and Chief Medical Officer at Tip Top Medical Center in Ames, IA plans to make the physician...
- Feb 21, 2022
- 2 min
Urologist Explores Cave During Urologic Procedure
Chintan Rao, D.O., Ph.D., Chairman of Urology at Trigone Medical Center in Washington, DC had a rare experience during a ureteroscopy....
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