{"id":521,"date":"2007-04-10T09:26:07","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T14:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2007\/04\/10\/running-a-hospital\/"},"modified":"2007-04-10T09:29:10","modified_gmt":"2007-04-10T14:29:10","slug":"running-a-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2007\/04\/10\/running-a-hospital","title":{"rendered":"Running a Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/runningahospital.blogspot.com\">Running a Hospital<\/a> is a blog actually written (not ghostwritten) by the CEO of a large Boston-area hospital, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bidmc.harvard.edu\/\">Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center<\/a>. The blog covers hospital\/health-care issues as well as some unrelated topics. The emergence of this sort of open and frank discourse from leaders (particularly in medicine) is a real sea change. Just a few years ago, this sort of relatively unedited discussion would have been shut down by the lawyers. It&#8217;s an interesting variation on the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.leaderu.com\/orgs\/probe\/docs\/mcluhan.html\">medium is the message<\/a>&#8221; concept. Of course, everything this CEO (and <a href=\"http:\/\/letstalkhealthcare.org\/\">others<\/a>) are writing doesn&#8217;t require the web or weblogs. The same content could easily have been provided in a printed newsletter (setting aside the minor cost issue). Weblogs have established new norms, however, that enable openness even in particularly liability-sensitive areas like medicine.<\/p>\n<p>For example, see this entry about <a href=\"http:\/\/runningahospital.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/what-works-part-4.html\">fatal infections resulting from central lines<\/a>. On a lighter note, <a href=\"http:\/\/runningahospital.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/which-came-first-free-range-chicken-or.html\">should the hospital use cage-free eggs<\/a>? (I said yes.)<\/p>\n<p>[Tags]Weblogs, Health Care[\/Tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Running a Hospital is a blog actually written (not ghostwritten) by the CEO of a large Boston-area hospital, the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The blog covers hospital\/health-care issues as well as some unrelated topics. The emergence of this sort of open and frank discourse from leaders (particularly in medicine) is a real sea change. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}