Brian Sangudi

Brian Sangudi has written 5 posts for medullan | blog
I am 5 foot, 11.75 inches tall; I enjoy helping clients and people I work with to achieve their objectives; believe that technology is a great enabler for the improved delivery of health care in the world, as it can be for so many other things.

mHealth: the icing on the Health IT cake

For those whom might resist adopting health information technology, mHealth promises to bring health information technology to them

Sharing Clinical Data, the First Step in Health Provider Collaboration

HealthCampBoston was an engaging one-day meeting of ideas and vision around overcoming the major challenges and false starts on the initiatives to improve healthcare. People with a wide variety of backgrounds were a part of the unconference, in which the attendees drove the agenda and discussions. These unconferences are now international, from London to Azerbaijan, and the next one is in May and promises to be no less stimulating than this one on Tuesday in Cambridge was.

One Take on the Transforming Healthcare Summit 2009

The Transforming Healthcare Summit 2009 was a well attended event where many ideas were heard and explored. It was well moderated by Scott Kirsner of the Boston Globe, with input from Peter Mueller, Valerie Fleishman, and Anne Marie Biernacki. The summit was a successful exchange of ideas about problems and possibilities for solutions.

LiveBlog from tonight’s Transforming Healthcare Summit

We’ll be updating regularly from the Transforming Healthcare Summit, co-sponsored by Medullan at the Seaport Hotel in Boston tonight. Start checking for updates around 5:30PM.

Visiting the Boston Medical Center

Touring the Boston Medical Center yesterday, what stood out most was the human dimension in the delivery of care that is not easily understood through statistics. While it was impressive that more than 130,000 patients a year are seen in the emergency room, or that 1,600 families a month depend on the food pantry, or that more than 400 prescriptions a month are filled in the free pharmacy – many for chronic diseases, it is only in seeing the experiences that patients and providers go through that one can paint a complete picture of the work done at the BMC.