Toolmaker refuses to retire. Turns attention to medical industry
However, making a difference looked at first as if it might cost Mr. Lee his personal savings. He hired two designers and “drained the piggy bank” over the first three years because he had miscalculated the market for the scalpels, surgery system and wound-closure process the company produces. “I had no idea the medical industry was so conservative and did not function rationally.”
The Canadian health-care system uses “silo budgeting,” Mr. Lee explains. Individual departments within institutions have budgets but nobody looks after the broad spectrum or a vertically integrated budget. “There is no rational allocation of costs, unlike the open market system.”
My time of year.
Markets and Medicine
Too many reformers seem unwilling to accept that consumers have heterogeneous taste when it comes to health.
Lost Sponges: help on the way
Jay Parkinson ran an article recently about retained surgical instruments.
In a perfect world this would not happen. We don’t live in a perfect world.
Can technology solve this problem? At what cost? See the link.
Grill graffiti.
At 13, Italo Romano lost his legs in a train accident. At 23 he is a beloved professional skateboarder with more skill and style than most will ever have.
While some make excuses for why they can’t others are out there doing.
What’s your excuse?
Make Great Stuff
Surgichart: a surgical case log app
My friend and Senior Editor at iMedical Apps, Felasfa Wodajo is admittedly more organized than I am. He already has an electronic database of all of his surgical cases. Mine is on paper. Felasfa built his using Filemaker. I, on the other hand, have been meaning to go electronic for a while.
To be honest though, I have not been looking forward to building a database on my own. Recently, however, I found Surgichart, and it opened my eyes to the possibilities out there. In fact, I may not even have to build anything on my own, since it looks like they’ve done it for me…(continue)
Cincinnati Zoo.
