Top 3 Medical Technology Advances

As there are so many incredible things going on around the world in healthcare and medicine, a shortlist of 3 of the greatest developments and ideas would offer us a glimpse into medicine’s future.

Augmented reality

Digital contact lenses patented by Google have the aim of changing the course of diabetes management by measuring levels of blood glucose from tears. As the prototype is undergoing strict testing, regulations have prepared to rapidly permit the disruptive technology to enter the marketplace and benefit patients. Also, Microsoft Hololens may change medical education, as well as how we view the world by projecting digital data onto what we’re seeing. A German clinic began to experiment with an app using augmented reality upon iPads inside the operating room. During surgeries, surgeons may see through anatomical structures like blood vessels inside the liver without having to open organs; thereby they may perform more exact excisions.

Google Brain

Ian Pearson’s book, You Tomorrow, discussed the probability of one day having the ability to develop digital selves based upon neurological data. It’ll mean we would upload our minds to a computer then live on inside a digital form. As Google employed Ray Kurzweil to develop the ultimate AI controlled brain, the opportunity shouldn’t be so far away. We may have been searching for the secret of immortality in all the wrong areas.

Recreational cyborgs

Advances in the future of medical technology won’t just fix physical disadvantages like impaired eyesight, but will also develop superhuman powers from having the hearing of a bat to the eyesight of an eagle. While an individual wearing implanted pacemakers or defibrillators can also be added to the cyborg group, I expect to witness more instances when individuals request the implantation of a specific device without having any medical issues.

Leading Management Solutions is a healthcare management solutions company providing assistance and resources to healthcare management. Contact us today at (407) 674-1916 or visit www.lmshealthpro.com to learn more.

About the Author:

Kristen Brady is the founder and owner of Kaboom Social Media, your social media marketing and content specialists! Follow her on Twitter: @kb54927

Time Management for Healthcare Professionals

With your patients’ health on the line, you do not want increased demand to produce sloppy service, meaning now is the time to begin to hone your time management skills. Below are 5 tips for time management for healthcare professionals which should permit you to treat more individuals:

Set up Goals

As things get hectic, the last thing you’ll want is to run around like a chicken with your head cut off. Take some time to set up goals, as well as create a sense of purpose for the work week. Establish goals for thirty, sixty, and ninety days. Jot them down, and talk about them with the supervisor to receive extra input. Next, schedule some time at the start and finish of every week to assess your progress, action items, and goals.

Prioritize Your Work Day

When you arrive for work, it may be difficult to hit the ground running, yet time spent checking Facebook, wandering the halls, and drinking coffee is wasted time. Write out the specific tasks that you must complete every day and the time needed to complete them.

Ask Your Organization to Use EHR (Electronic Health Records)

Request that your organization switch over to electronic health records, if your employer has not already done so. Such records cut paperwork down while making it simpler to locate valuable patient data.

When Possible, Delegate

Do not assume you’re able to do it all by yourself. If there is extra available help, use it. Volunteers, interns, administrative staff, and medical assistants are there for a reason; therefore, take advantage of their assistance.

Understand When to Say No

Your coworkers know you are busy, yet that will not stop them from requesting help. Become realistic about your workload and agree only to take on patients or projects if there is enough time.

Leading Management Solutions is a healthcare management solutions company providing assistance and resources to healthcare management. Contact us today at (407) 674-1916 or visit www.lmshealthpro.com to learn more.

About the Author:

Kristen Brady is the founder and owner of Kaboom Social Media, your social media marketing and content specialists! Follow her on Twitter: @kb54927

3 Mistakes that Stymie Effectiveness in Healthcare Leadership

Effective leadership will require not just doing the proper things, but additionally knowing what not to do. Below are 3 mistakes to avoid.

Not scheduling time for learning conversations

As you listen, you learn. Arrange consistent opportunities to ask clarifying, concise and clear questions to your team members, as well as discipline yourself to actively listen. It’ll provide you with important intelligence to do two main functions of a leader: providing resources and removing obstacles.

You can’t know the obstacles impeding success nor the resources required by your staff if you are not consistently arranging highly interactive learning discussions.

Not consistently affirming

Maybe the most efficient tool for energizing, motivating, and emboldening your staff is the amazing power of affirmation. Simply put, affirming is catching individuals doing the right things and telling them about it. Do not just think about it; say it.

Misdiagnosing

As you go to the doctor, he’ll ask questions and most times follow up with tests prior to prescribing actions made to remedy an injury or illness. And why? For the security of patients and for the crucial business advantage of avoiding a malpractice suit. The exception might be under emergency circumstances in which time is of the essence.

If you’re always making choices in business as if you work inside the emergency department, your business’ health will be in a consistent state of trauma. A correct diagnosis of the “ailments” that affect your business is needed to make the choices needed to have a prosperous and healthy business. This process will necessitate collecting accurate and appropriate data—see the aforementioned part on scheduling time for learning conversations—rather than randomly moving forward with activity which may or may not generate the desired results.

Most executives or business owners want to bring in outside assistance to “treat” an issue which was incorrectly, inadequately, or improperly diagnosed. Prior to help being formally acquired, they must answer the following question: “What is it that we want to achieve?” With this question clarified, a decision might be made on how to accomplish the desired outcome as effectively as possible.

Leading Management Solutions is a healthcare management solutions company providing assistance and resources to healthcare management. Contact us today at (407) 674-1916 or visit www.lmshealthpro.com to learn more.

About the Author:

Kristen Brady is the founder and owner of Kaboom Social Media, your social media marketing and content specialists! Follow her on Twitter: @kb54927

Top 3 Ways Healthcare Managers Can Improve Patient Care and Outcomes

By Kristen Brady

These 3 steps may help healthcare managers concentrate and streamline the impact-planning and goal-setting process -- then turn employee engagement results to clinical improvements:

Begin with the bigger picture

Healthcare leaders enjoy information. However, some love information so much, they’ll get lost in the figures and forget the reason behind collecting them. High performance managers can interpret and understand their employee engagement results of surveys; however, they do not lose sight of the eventual objective: developing better outcomes for employees and patients. By routinely communicating the outcomes and purpose of higher engagement, managers offer direction and set a firm foundation up for improvement.

Talk about your purpose

Most managers do not have talks about employee engagement often enough or consistently with their staff. However, to maintain commitment and momentum, managers have to make discussions concerning engagement that is central to team communications. Good managers ensure their staff may answer the following questions:

• What is in it for our patients?
• What it is in it for the organization?
• What is in it for the team?

Have a goal at improving an operational or clinical outcome

As your staff knows the bigger picture and how engagement produces improved outcomes, set an operational or clinical goal -- like decreasing patient falls, reducing readmissions, or cutting central line-related bloodstream infections – as well as make accomplishing it a priority for your department or unit. Talk about why this objective is critical, and ask the team to identify team and individual strengths which may assist them in meeting it. Below are a few questions to spark these talks:

• What certain actions might we take to improve the outcome?
• Where are our strengths as a team? How might we use those strengths to assist us in meeting our objective?
• What objective should our employees concentrate on for the following several months? What might make the largest difference for our patients?

Leading Management Solutions is a healthcare management solutions company providing assistance and resources to healthcare managers. Contact us today at (407) 674-1916.

About the Author:

Kristen Brady is the founder and owner of Kaboom Social Media, your social media marketing and content specialists! Follow her on Twitter: @kb54927

Subtle Warning Indications that Your Work Environment Sucks

By Kristen Brady

As far as a work environment is concerned, what are a few warning indications that it sucks?

1. Complaints of trivial things: As unresolved problems pile up, trivial subjects become objects of dissatisfaction.

2. Decisions that were previously made are reevaluated constantly. Deadlines slip constantly: It’ll create doubt that any decisions may be made. Also, it’ll send the unintended message that no matter how hard people worked to come to a decision; it will not last – so why try?

3. Workers scrutinize the email contents from fear of reprisal for making any mistakes: I have seen workers agonize over sending banal emails from fear of making mistakes.

4. Execs have a pattern of diving headfirst into the information rather than setting the direction: Execs spend a lot of time setting vision and context for the company. How to accomplish the vision is employees and middle management work.

5. Meetings seldom begin on time. Meeting’s purpose is not clear: Browse your calendar. How many meetings do you think were useful and productive? What is the annoyance of poor meetings costing you?

6. Rarely do managers make themselves available due to back-to-back meetings: If managers are not available, it’ll slow progress on deliverables and decisions down. Employee concerns/issues aren’t addressed in a timely manner.

7. Employee breaking points are more obvious: Browse the amount of workers out on stress leave. What is going on with the attrition rate? Absenteeism? How is productivity? Are your leading performers starting to show indications of wear and tear, or even worse, leaving?

If many of the above situations are present within your environment at work, it is time for management to get together and decide how to address those warning signs. I am an advocate of starting a conversation with workers by merely having a conversation: “I have started to notice these things and am a little concerned with how they’re making an impact on you and the work environment. I would enjoy hearing your thoughts.”

For more details contact Leading Management Solutions at (407) 674-1916.

Leading Management Solutions is a healthcare management solutions company providing consulting and resources to healthcare managers. Contact us today at (407) 674-1916. Visit our website at www.lmshealthpro.com.

About the Author:

Kristen Brady is the founder and owner of Kaboom Social Media, your social media marketing and content specialists! Follow her on Twitter: @kb54927

Never Make a Stupid Public Relations Mistake Again

Because stupid mistakes in public relations have painful consequences, all leaders, Old School and Sustainable Leaders alike – concur that they’re to be avoided like the plague. Here is how:

1. Prior to making any choice, ask yourself “Who will it serve?” If it’ll serve the management or stockholders at the cost of the customers or employees, give it a long, hard thought before you implement the plan.

2. Gain input from an objective, trusted 3^rd party. Someone who honestly will inform you that your baby really is ugly.

3. As you make a stupid public relations mistake in spite of the numbers 1 and 2, the CEO – not a representative! – has to publicly state, “I’m sorry for what I did and I was wrong.”

Number three is critical if you want to snuff this type of blunder out moving ahead. If the head honcho must stand at the head of the class then take full responsibility for all seedy or unethical moves her or his company makes… well, let us put it plainly: no one likes to be publicly humiliated. Accountability begins with the top, leaders; therefore, let us begin to own up to our company’s mistakes.

Now, I am a big fan of failing forward, of organizations and people who thrive through error. Here’s the last thing I want: to encourage even less risk-taking all in the name of a decrease in mistakes. Therefore, let us be crystal clear: misguided business decisions, gambles that fail – nobody’s keeping score of how many times you attempt something and fail. It is those wins that matter.

Stupid PR mistakes are ethical lapses. “PR” will come into play as the public learns what you are up to then cries foul. And for that, companies must strive to go above and beyond Six Sigma standards. There isn’t any excuse for an organization not to have an ethical lapse. Does it happen? Maybe. Is it ever okay? Never.

For more details contact Leading Management Solutions at (407) 674-1916. We offer public relations and event planning according to a practice’s budget. This includes:

-Development and assistance with implementation of marketing strategies.

-Development of company awareness and recognition in the community.

-Participation and company representation in local events.

-Assistance with company event planning, such as Grand Openings, Meet the Docs, and Patient Appreciation events.

Leading Management Solutions is a healthcare management solutions company providing consulting and resources to healthcare managers. Contact us today at (407) 674-1916. Visit our website at www.lmshealthpro.com.

About the Author:

Kristen Brady is the founder and owner of Kaboom Social Media, your social media marketing and content specialists! Follow her on Twitter: @kb54927