Accelerating Health Care IT Adoption

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Roberta — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:04:10 GMT

Yes, excellent article! I would like to share with you from this small community, a small but Amazing Securing Device for a Nasal Cannula. We call the device The Oxy-Sure 'Buddy'.

*Keeps cannula on through sleep motion

*Relieves all pressure points (ears nose neck cheeks)

*Comfortable (Very)

*Disposable (weekly)

*Hypo-allergenic (non latex adhesives)

*Inexpensive (compared to cost of patient monitoring & treatment of decubitus ulcers

*Reduces Nursing Stress & Aggravation(improves care by improving work enviorment)

*Highly recommended by care givers- Doctors- Nurses- CNAS- Respiratory Therapists- Cannula wearers!

Caring for Mom at home on 6 liters of liquid oxygen 24/7 was hard.(I was getting ill myself) How many people are out there like us? Soon my Dad was on Oxygen & wearing the 'Buddy'. We looked everywhere, asked everyone for help. NO HELP!

So this was developed and patented while taking care of our Mother. The Story is on our web site www.oxy-sure.com.

We Manufacture the Oxy-Sure 'Buddy' here in the northwest, trying to make a difference in our small but economically depressed area. At this time Hospitals, Hospics, Nursing Homes, Individuals in the Home Health setting. Anywhere the Nasal Cannulae is used They Need To Offer The Buddy.

Thanks for inspirational blog

Roberta

re: Accelerating Health Care IT Adoption

Rajesh — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:02:26 GMT

Edward, excellent observations and apt recommendations! I have been working on bring healthcare IT adoption in my region (APAC) and find similar challenges related to funding the project for non-profit hospitals.

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Ed — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:51:42 GMT

Interesting discussion here.

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edward marx — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:49:45 GMT

From Blogger (Ed). Good questions. 1) Ed. 2) There are tools out there to assist in the grant discovery and application process. I do not want to push a specific vendor so recommend you use search engine for "grant tool kit". You will be amazed. 3) I think it will take some time with the way the grant machine works. If you are starting completly from scratch, you will have to hope for some scraps and then be faithful with what you receive. Over time you will see an increase. He who is faithful with a little will be faithful with much. We are fortunate that we do have a bit of a headstart at Texas Health. Generally, grass roots will see a trickle but over time much more...

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Matt Gildon — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:22:50 GMT

While research and discovery are mission critical to long term improvement of human health and improved quality of life, it seems to me that the successful spend of these dollars would include the "grass-roots" efforts of the community hospital systems.

Ed, do you see organizations such as yours getting enough dollars to make a material difference in the way your clinicians serve the community?

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Kertis — Mon, 11 May 2009 20:21:32 GMT

Hello Ed- Excellent article. With the advent of HITECH, I've had quite a bit of discussion with collegues in regard to pursuing grant funding. I've found that the vast majority of non-academic health systems have little experience in the grants application process.

Does anyone know what tools (in regard to software) are out there to facilitate and manage the collaboration required during the grant development process? Thanks

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Will Weider — Wed, 06 May 2009 03:16:34 GMT

Great post Ed (or do you prefer Edward?). I really enjoyed this.