Happy New Year! Introducing a New Blog for Our Medical Staff

The EMR.  Changing employment relationships.  CMS mandates.  And did I mention the EMR…so many challenges seemed to be aimed at the practicing physician that have so little to do with why we entered the profession in the first place.  Despite these obstacles, I am proud to say that Huntington Hospital physicians continue to raise the bar on clinical performance, quality of care, patient safety, medical education and research.  

We are a professionally diverse group >> While some of us are performing technologically-advanced procedures, others are toiling in the fields of primary care, creating (as we are at the Dolan Family Health Center) the Patient-centered Medical Home.  We are generalists and specialists and consultants, focusing on every part of the bio-psycho-social continuum of care.  


The sole purpose of this new blog is to create a space for multidirectional conversation about matters of broad interest to you, the members of our Medical Staff.   Since it's "my" blog technically, I am committing to keep the dialogue going.  However, I am relying on you to suggest new topics, raise concerns, respond to your colleagues' and my own posts, and from time to time share your successes.*  In other words, I appeal to you to USE the "Comment" button!

*Needless to say, there are SOME limitations here.  I chose to launch this blog on blogspot.com so we could all get to it easily and have the functionality of a real blog.  Meaning that I COULD have launched this inside our Physician PORTAL but didn't, even though PORTAL would have provided more privacy.  So no PHI of course, and no comments that you wouldn't want someone to find by Googling your name.