In an excellent article, Asymptomatic Transmission, the Achilles' Heel of Current Strategies to Control Covid-19, the venerable New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) offers a strategy for SNFs to combat the…

Among programmers, using the products you build is referred to as eating your own dogfood. I've been doing that. That is, on my nursing shifts, I've been using my new app, NurseAssess…

In my previous career I was a computer programmer. Then I went to nursing school, got a BSN (cum laude) and passed the NCLEX. As an RN, I returned to programming to work on information-related tasks of nursing.

When nurses complain that the technology-based tools (especially EHRs) that they are tasked to use slow them down, usually what they mean is that these tools don’t model their workflow. We talk about workflow a lot! But what is it? Why is it so important? And why is it so hard to model with computerized/electronic/mobile tools?

I recently read Dr. Victoria Sweet's 2012 recounting of her twenty years at San Francisco's venerable Laguna Honda rehabilitation center, recently transformed from almshouse (the last one in America) to hospital. Her…