Nov 23, 2016 | Inside
More than 50 faculty and staff from throughout the Mount Sinai Health System mingled at a recent Faculty of Color Network (FCoN) event held at MIST in Harlem. The gathering was sponsored by the Health System’s Office for Diversity and Inclusion and the Center for Multicultural and Community Affairs at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Participants learned about faculty development opportunities, mentor programs, and ways to further professional interaction. Among the guests from the Icahn School of Medicine were (see photo) from left: Miguel Gama Sosa, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Ann-Gel Palermo, DrPH, MPH, Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion in Biomedical Education; and Melissa Alvarez-Downing, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery (Colorectal Surgery). Another event is planned for the spring.
Nov 23, 2016 | Community, Inside
Mount Sinai Doctors Urgent Care Inwood hosted its second annual Spooktacular Halloween House on Friday, October 28, for 200 neighborhood children. They created masks inspired by the Mexican holiday Día de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) and visited a photo booth to have their pictures taken in costume. After the event, the children trick-or-treated at more than 40 businesses in the Urgent Care Inwood building. The facility is one of three Mount Sinai Doctors Urgent Care practices in New York City that treats patients with non-life-threatening illness or injury.
Nov 23, 2016 | Inside
The final “Go-Live” of a unified Epic electronic medical record for registration, scheduling, clinical documentation, and billing within the Mount Sinai Doctors Faculty Practice is scheduled for Thursday, December 1, capping an implementation process that began in June. The large-scale transformation, which has involved 22 departments, is being led by the Faculty Practice’s Mount Sinai Practice Transformation program. To learn more, visit http://intranet1.mountsinai.org/mspt.
Nov 23, 2016 | Inside
Program leaders for the Mount Sinai Medical Record Number effort include, from left, Patricia M. Lamb, MHHA; Marc Napp, MD; and Elena Sethi, Director, Program Management Office, Information Technology.
Beginning at 7 pm on Saturday, December 10, four hospitals within the Mount Sinai Health System will simultaneously convert their medical record numbering systems to one using a Mount Sinai Medical Record Number (MSMRN). The MSMRN is a unique patient identifier that is currently being used at The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai Queens, as well as numerous ambulatory practices within the Health System. A medical record number is assigned to each patient when first visiting Mount Sinai—whether for an office visit or hospital stay—and is the key to that patient’s clinical information. The four hospitals participating in the conversion are Mount Sinai West, Mount Sinai St. Luke’s, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, and Mount Sinai Brooklyn. (more…)
Nov 23, 2016 | Inside, Research, School
First-place winners in the MedMaker Challenge included, from left, second-year medical students Taylor Miller, Davis Zhou, Dong Yao, and John Di Capua. Not pictured, team member Ryan Neff.
SinaInnovations hosted its first MedMaker Challenge this year, a two-day competition to “democratize innovation” that drew 75 participants—including students from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and other institutions, and engineering and software professionals. The goal of the competition was to create a high-tech approach to managing, monitoring, and treating health problems associated with pain and fatigue. In all, 14 teams worked on solutions over a 48-hour period. A panel of judges from Mount Sinai chose first-, second-, and third-place winning teams that received prizes of $3,500, $2,500, and $1,500, respectively. (more…)
Nov 23, 2016 | Inside, Research
Nineteen individuals from the Mount Sinai Health System were honored for their contributions to research, technology, medicine, and health care at the second annual Mount Sinai Innovation Awards ceremony, which was held on Monday, October 24, in conjunction with the SinaInnovations conference. (more…)
More than 50 faculty and staff from throughout the Mount Sinai Health System mingled at a recent Faculty of Color Network (FCoN) event held at MIST in Harlem. The gathering was sponsored by the Health System’s Office for Diversity and Inclusion and the Center for Multicultural and Community Affairs at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Participants learned about faculty development opportunities, mentor programs, and ways to further professional interaction. Among the guests from the Icahn School of Medicine were (see photo) from left: Miguel Gama Sosa, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Ann-Gel Palermo, DrPH, MPH, Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion in Biomedical Education; and Melissa Alvarez-Downing, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery (Colorectal Surgery). Another event is planned for the spring.
