Google’s Response to ANI Letter

I have posted about Google’s Healthcare Advisory board and the lack of Nursing representation. This was not very well accepted by a good number of nursing commmunities. CARING being one of them, a big push to educate google became a mission. As a member of Caring, the president decided to provide us members an update, which I want to share in this blog.

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A Message from CARING President Jerry Chaimberlain:

Fellow CARING members –

This is just a brief note to let
everyone know that a representative from Google responded last week to
our ANI letter regarding their recent Health Advisory Council. As you
may remember, Google announced in June of 2007 that they had formed a
Health Advisory Council in order to help “…better understand the
problems consumers and providers face every day and [to] offer feedback
on product ideas and development.” This announcement was quickly
recognized as significant not only because of the impact Google has to
the health care consumer but also because of what many felt was lacking
in their council membership….nursing representation. The blog press
release from Google can be found here.

As
the professional community began to react, our Alliance for Nursing
Informatics elected to generate a formal response on behalf of the 23
distinct nursing informatics groups and our 4,000+ nursing &
healthcare informatics professionals. Over the course of several days,
leaders from each of the ANI organizations collected and routed
feedback into our Alliance infrastructure and a response was
constructed and sent to Google. A copy of that letter can be found here.

I
am happy to report that Missy Krasner, product manager at Google, has
responded to our letter and acknowledged our concerns. In her letter
back to ANI, Ms. Krasner explains that although their council did not
include representatives from every stakeholder group in healthcare,
“efforts were made to choose an advisory panel whose experience
reflects diverse expertise.” She further explained that at the present
time their council is currently full, however she will bring our
comments forward to Dr. Dean Ornish and the rest of their council for
review prior to the next meeting. Included in her communication to
the council, will be a recommended candidate from our nursing
informatics community.

Thanks to all who responded objectively and passionately to
this issue. It was a great to see our Alliance in-action with a
unified response, and we couldn’t have done that without your input.

—- Jerry

Jerry Chamberlain, MS, RNBC
President & Board Member, CARING
www.caringonline.org

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InterOpNurse Thoughts

Here I am at the gym. I just finished working out, trying to relieve some
of the days stress. I just got into a situation, where in I am fixing a
mess an employee of mine created for me. What it boiled down to, is the
inability to communicate and pay attention to details. This was an employee
who pratically begged me for a position, because he was hungry to be given
an opportunity to be in a nursing informatics position. Well I took a risk,
and he failed me miserably today. On a different note…he embarassed me.
I kept thinking, where did I go wrong, and where did I fail to communicate.
As I thought about the situation even more, I personally deduced in to
several factors:

1. When implementing an EMR, simply hiring a nurse is not the key. As
a matter of fact, being involve in an implementation just highlights how bad
of a nurse at the bedside a person was. If you can pay attention to little
details that an EMR implementation requires of you, then you must not have
been a tune to the suttle changes a patient goes through which highlights
whether you were a proactive nurse or a reactive nurse.

2. How dedicated you are at producing a product the clinicians will use
is a direct reflection of how good your bedside manners were.

3. Ability or inability to realize as implementers of EMR’s we are
acting as care extenders. The product we produce has direct relationship to
how safe our patients will be as recipients of care from clinicians who
utilize the tool we provided.

These are my thoughts at least,

InterOpNurse

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Comment posted by Ginger Campbell
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Is it true that they gave the hospital one week to move their patients and that everyone who works there is now jobless?

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Comment posted by Katiebell
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Yugh. Nostalgic for you , Maybe….

that was the one thing opted out of….

luckily its not required in most clinicals any more….we just bungle along on real patients….

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