Share your ideas
There's a million ways to make medicine better and we want to hear them all. From the political arena of health care reform, to the personal world of what you want and need medicine to be, Share Your Ideas is where you talk and we listen. So, if you have an idea, a question, or advice on what the world of medicine needs to do in order to be better, please share it. And check back often to see if it becomes reality.
June 18, 2010
Phyllis Abbott | It may be Hospital ER billing or doctor billings to the insurance companies; it needs to change. When a doctor tells you to go to the emergency room or to a specific doctor, the referring doctor's name should be listed on the insurance billing, also, the REASON that doctor sent you to the ER should also be on the insurance billing. Instead, what the insurance is reading is the diagnosis or the ER doctor or the doctor the patient is referred to. Then they refuse payment because they say it was not an emergency or not necessary because what wa... more >>> |
June 16, 2010
Lawrence Emke | How about providing a way that a patient can review
their appointment schedules by way of the internet?
It could cut down on printing schedules on paper.
This will save time for the people who print the schedules.
It could cut down on the cost of paper and ink.
It could be the first step to move patient care into the
21st century.
It would save me time from calling the hospital to get
my latest schedule, because I misplaced the paper that
they gave me a few days ago.
I realize that some people are not up to u... more >>> |
| I recently returned from a customer advisory board of a predictive analytic software company. It seems to me that many other for-profit industries are already using predictive software to increase ROI and reduce costs within their organization. It also seems to me that health care is still working at simple reporting of the descriptives of what is happening, and not anywhere near being able to make predictions about the future using readily available data.
Am I completely off-base with this statement? There were many health care orga... more >>> |
| Idea: After every visit, EVERY patient gets a Summary Report of what the Doctor just did for them, recommendations, next appointment, etc. It is unfair and in my opinion unethical to not provide your patients with a detailed summary of what services were rendered on my body. It should not have to be requested, it should be given.
-When I get my oil changed at the mechanic, they give me a nice summary of everything that was done as well as other items I should keep a watch out for. more >>> |
| Cut the prices D-O-W-N. No one needs to pay $20,000 for a cast to be put on!!! more >>> |
June 01, 2010
Lawrence Emke | I know that critical equipment and highly skilled talent is in short supply. This forces patients to travel long distances to obtain
critical care (service).
My sister-in-law must travel from her work place down into the
city, when a branch of the same hospital is literally across
the street from her work place. There are no staff (doctors) associated
with the leukemia department on staff at the branch location.
Therefore, she must travel 20 miles to get a shot once each day
for 5 days. (This not really a big deal, but... more >>> |
May 29, 2010
Lawrence Emke | I was watching a TV commercial promoting hospitals
concern for patients. The scene was
a series of long, dimly lit empty halls
that ended in a nurse and mother holding
a new born child.
I guess the producer was trying to give
the impression of giving "birth".
The series of halls reminded of the way
all hospitals use to look. It gave
me the wrong impression. I thought
all of those places had been eliminated.
I guess I was wrong.
To make medicine better, eliminate all
of those halls the remind you of a box... more >>> |
May 24, 2010
Lawrence Emke | You asked for the one thing every hospital could do to improve.
Trying to think of a positive answer, my memory took me back to
an old movie.
In it Kris Kringle helps shoppers find the best gift that the
parents can buy. He even sent some customers to "Gimbles",
because they had a toy that the woman was trying to find.
It would be nice if Hospitals tried to do the same.
I realize this goes against the "profit" motive, but
a hospital can not be all things to all persons.
It would be nice if doctors would recom... more >>> |
| One of the best tools in medicine is the advent of care management programs and systems to help people with chronic disease manage their illnesses. Disease management specialists are some of the unsung heroes in health care today! more >>> |
| I recently spent several weeks in a BJC institution receiving a bone marrow transplant. The preparation and transplant itself went very well, and I was well looked-after. Beginning from the day of transplant, however, I was almost entirely ignored by the entire medical staff except for the bare minimum of contact.
I would call for pain relief, and on more than one occasion HOURS would pass (and several more calls) before a nurse would show up. I had to ask multiple times to have bed linens changed. Entire shifts would pass with only... more >>> |
| I Had an MRI scheduled by BJC ENT and over three monthe later have not heard any results as promised, no call no follow up although I have received a bill and had to pay a large portion. No wonder the cost of health care is so high. Expensive tests are scheduled , patients with insurance still pay large amounts and for little or no purpose. Patients are lost in the systems. Care and follow up should be better. more >>> |
April 23, 2010
Anita Hovis | Please update those little tiny televisions in the rooms. You need a magnifying glass to see them and the picture is terrible! I realize healthcare comes first and then the frills come second but those things are awful. But I must say I do love the wi-fi!!! Defintely helps to pass the time! more >>> |
April 21, 2010
Jared Seigler | I was 14 when I had a posterior-lateral disc bulge on my left L4. My parents took me to the family practitioner who was fine with sending me to a surgeon right off the bat. Thankfully, my parents took me to a chiropractor to have it conservatively managed. The first one wasn't good so my parents took me to another one. After a good history and diagnostic imaging was taken, he initiated a 3 week treatment of care plan to see if he could reduce my symptoms (pain shooting below my knee, etc). And it worked! It took about 25 visits along with ho... more >>> |
| I think that some people fail to see the real impact that taxation on non-profit organizations can have.
I am referring to the article: http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/9F3DB4701FB3A495862576FE000A93D1?OpenDocument
Non-profits are as such because there are no shareholders making profit from the operations of the organization. Non-profits exist as a way to continually grow the services of the organization, and provide those services to the community. To impose or increase taxes on non-profi... more >>> |
March 25, 2010
Lisa Harmon | Emergency rooms are filled with people who could & should be seen in urgent care centers or their Doctor's offices, this makes the real emergencies wait much longer than is necessary. Maybe we should have "Urgent care" areas affixed to the hospitals since this is where most patients tend to go. Triage could then have patients go to the appropriate site. more >>> |
March 17, 2010
Michael Goggins | My experience at BJC was a terrible one. I arrived at the emergency room at Missouri Baptist Hospital at 3 pm with extreme lower abdomen pains. I checked in and then sat in the waiting room for almost nine hours. Finally, I received some pain medication from a nurse and then sat in another room for 2 hours. After almost 11 hours, they did a CT scan and a saw a Docter for about four minutes. There was no physical exam and only superficial questions. The diagnosis provided, I found later, was completely wrong. So in all, I spent 13 hours to se... more >>> |
March 17, 2010
Gary Shipper | Why doesn't BJC subscribe to more Medicare Advantage plans for seniors that can't afford traditional Medicare supplements?
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March 05, 2010
Deb Whited | When I pass by several of the BJC hospitals & facilities late at night, there are a lot of lights on in the doctor's buildings and ancillary buildings. The hospital I work in has lights on continually in empty rooms & offices that are unoccupied. I think if we were more diligent about turning off these lights, we could save a pretty significant amount of money and also energy - since we are trying to go "green". more >>> |
February 11, 2010
Brett Pohlman | With Apple’s announcement of the iPad, I can’t help but think of the impact it could have on the medical industry. I can imagine the medical industry changing and becoming almost completely paperless. This is, of course, hypothetical until the iPad can undergo testing in a real-world medical environment.
There are many articles about what the iPad is missing, but Apple always has a trick up its sleeve. It would take an iPad running a Mac operating system (OS) rather than an iPhone OS for the iPad to work in the medical field. ... more >>> |
January 29, 2010
Neale Cady | I have a problem when I see all the TV ads for medicine that you can not buy with out a prescription from your Dr. I have heard the drug companies spend upwards of 5 BILLION dollars a year on TV ads. Wouldn't that money be better used in research and lowering the cost of drugs. The ads say to ask your Dr. If I didn't trust my Dr. to know what was available and what was best for me, I'd find a new Dr. I'm not sure, but I think this is the only product advertised on TV that you can't just go out and buy. more >>> |
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