The End

The first post on this blog was added on November 12, 2004 – it’s hard to believe I’ve been writing online about various aspects of healthcare for almost ten years. When I started this site, originally named MSSPNexus, (Medical Staff Service Professionals) the focus of my writing was current news and standards pertaining to hospital medical staff administration.  Later, as my career took a different path, I added risk management and over the past few years patient blood management into the mix. In 2004 being a healthcare blogger was a heady experience; there weren’t that many of us and we formed a sort of online friendship, especially through Nick Gene’s Medical Grand Rounds.  We were sometimes interviewed, either by one another or by traditional news media.  KevinMD came along in 2005, and his blog remains one of the best and most active medical sites on the web.  Nurse Kim’s Emergiblog was always a fascinating read.  Of note, she recently posted that she is shutting down her blog.  Dr. Mike Sevilla soon found that it is difficult to remain anonymous on the web, and he continues to write under his real name.  There were a host of others, many of whom contributed to the first grand rounds hosted on this site. Over the past couple of years Supporting Safer Healthcare has been sadly neglected.  There are many concerns about protected health information and social media, some justified, and some over-the-top paranoid.   W...
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