Up on Level 2, those of us in Roberta Grigg’s Small Hospital Group (MS1100), relied on the “dial-up room” methodology. Rather than congregate at a central point out on the floor we chose to take care of our remote business while in a series of small conference rooms which were dedicated to this same activity.

Advantage: I’d say the second floor’s conference room approach was preferable. People didn’t smoke in the conference rooms while trouble shooting issues. The centralized group out on the first floor had an ash tray that often looked like one of the great pyramids of Giza!

Lessons from Pitt are that it might be, mates, that the big bang approach, having been the modus in the US, was the etiology for adverse events such as increased mortality and new mistakes reported in peer reviewed medical journals. The combination inferior IT algorithms and with the big bang is dangerous.