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Right now, at a hospital somewhere, a surgeon just performed a discectomy, and it’s important to know if, in the operative report, the...
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Apr 30, 20231 min read
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, 20231 min read
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, 20231 min read
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, 20232 min read
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, 20231 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20222 min read
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 22, 20222 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20222 min read
Hospital Uses Rhyme to Improve Patient Safety
Watch the story as a video! In-Time Health System in Baltimore, MD thinks that rhyming will improve their patient safety. Jack Bozán,...
Feb 4, 20222 min read
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, 20222 min read
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 2, 20212 min read
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...
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