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...
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- 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 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
- 2 min
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....
- Feb 14, 2022
- 2 min
Hospital Uses Rhyme to Improve Patient Safety
In-Time Health System in Baltimore, MD thinks that rhyming will improve their patient safety. Jack Bozán, M.D., Medical Staff President,...
- Feb 4, 2022
- 2 min
Child Coughs Like Man, Cries Like Baby
It began as a persistent cough and turned into a strange adventure for a mother, a pediatrician and a pulmonologist. Annie Childs, mother...
- Feb 4, 2022
- 2 min
Infant with 1,000° F Temperature Seen Smiling and Playing in ER
Little Thermont Meter, 3-month-old infant, was seen joyously smiling in the ER triage room. Smiling is a good thing. But what’s strange...
- Nov 3, 2021
- 2 min
Baby Seen Surfing In Utero
Margaret Hathaway didn’t want to talk about it at first, but she may have experienced the first sighting of a baby surfing in utero. She...
- Oct 13, 2021
- 2 min
Peek-A-Boo Method Could Revolutionize Patient Engagement
Chief Nursing Officer, Sally Brees, RN, DNP at Hillsboro Duncan Hospital hopes the Peek-A-Boo Method will improve patient quality metrics.
- Sep 1, 2021
- 2 min
Hospital Uses Cold Shoulder to Increase Physician Efficiency
"We want to see if there are other ways of making physicians more efficient. One those ways is by freezing doctors. "
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