Patients Unable to Pay Hospital Bill Can Stay and Do Scut Work Instead
WILMINGTON, DE—With no end in sight to the national healthcare debate, one community hospital in Wilmington, DE is experimenting with a new way for...
Rating the EHRs: Which EHR is Best for Your Hospital?
Are you suffering from migraines looking to transition from paper charts to an electronic health record (EHR)? Fear no more. GomerBlog has assembled this...
EMR Developers Shocked to Learn How Their Software is Actually Used
Several developers of widely-used electronic medical record (EMR) software were invited out of their cubicles last week for a much-hyped tour of the real-world...
Updated HCAHPS Survey for Patient Satisfaction Released
Please answer the questions in this survey about your stay at the hospital named on the cover letter. Do not include any other hospital...
Hospital CEO Praised for Raising Patient:Nurse Ratio to 10:1
RICHMOND, VA - Our Lady of Oddi Hospital (OLOH) CEO, Mr. Benjamin Wilkerson, is being credited with developing a novel idea that may save...
Administrator Not Sure What To Do With Survey That Complains About Surveys
RICHMOND, VA - Administrator Craig Brown was dumbfounded yesterday when he received a survey from a patient that was treated at his hospital. The...
United Airlines Asked to Forcibly Remove Patient from Hospital
CHICAGO, IL - Local patient Sam Johnson, who is being "taken care of" at Mercy Hospital, has not been able to leave for 7 months....
Medical Team Sues Difficult Patient for Pain & Suffering
BIRMINGHAM, AL - Sometimes enough is enough. A multidisciplinary inpatient medical team at Birmingham Medical Center (BMC) is taking difficult patient and frequent flyer Jason...
New EMR Implementation Going Almost As Smoothly As Promised
San Diego, CA- When Balboa Memorial Hospital announced that they would be “upgrading” to a new Electronic Medical Record (EMR) last year, there was...
How Many Different Hats Can a Medical Provider Wear?
It's not uncommon in modern medicine for any given health care provider, whether it's a nurse, PA, or doctor, to have multiple roles or...