Comments on: Readers Write 12/4/08 http://histalk2.com/2008/12/03/readers-write-12408/ Healthcare IT News and Opinion Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:24:30 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Tim http://histalk2.com/2008/12/03/readers-write-12408/comment-page-1/#comment-2726 Tim Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:57:26 +0000 http://histalk2.com/2008/12/03/readers-write-12408/#comment-2726 I am curious about the rounding article. How big an organization this is? How many workstations, printer and locations they have. Also if they had to increase the number of staff. [From Mr. HIStalk] I looked the hospital up and it's in the 800-bed range. They did not increase staff, according to the CIO. We did something similar at one of my hospitals (500-bed range), assigning field techs to units for weekly or so visits. No staff increase there and the techs loved getting out to work with users in a more proactive way. If nothing else, they would clean the printers knowing we'd get called for that eventually anyway. Often they would find bigger problems with security or application problems just by being out on the front lines. This might be one of those "IT Department Marketing" projects! I am curious about the rounding article. How big an organization this is? How many workstations, printer and locations they have. Also if they had to increase the number of staff.

[From Mr. HIStalk] I looked the hospital up and it’s in the 800-bed range. They did not increase staff, according to the CIO. We did something similar at one of my hospitals (500-bed range), assigning field techs to units for weekly or so visits. No staff increase there and the techs loved getting out to work with users in a more proactive way. If nothing else, they would clean the printers knowing we’d get called for that eventually anyway. Often they would find bigger problems with security or application problems just by being out on the front lines. This might be one of those “IT Department Marketing” projects!

]]> By: Jedi Knight http://histalk2.com/2008/12/03/readers-write-12408/comment-page-1/#comment-2725 Jedi Knight Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:14:59 +0000 http://histalk2.com/2008/12/03/readers-write-12408/#comment-2725 Just be careful where you are running "Silverlight" (From many Microsoft license agreements:) Not intended for use in machinery, medical or industrial applications. Just be careful where you are running “Silverlight”

(From many Microsoft license agreements:)

Not intended for use in machinery, medical or industrial applications.

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