Happy Dogs in a Pile of Sticks (Spreading Improvement in Chronic Disease Care)Comments on: --

By: Help Me Choose: Sessions at Medicine 2.0 | e-Patients.net

Help Me Choose: Sessions at Medicine 2.0 | e-Patients.net — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:12:00 +0000

[...] California HealthCare Foundation. I loved the input I got and wrote 3 posts on what I learned about spreading improvement in care, how to include patient voices, and how to discuss emerging trends (even if it makes people’s [...]

By: SusannahFox

SusannahFox — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:53:47 +0000

@msaxolotl @amyklee Full quote is even better: cats wait to see what blows up in the dogs' faces http://bit.ly/5SwU83

By: Doing Our Best to Blow Your Minds (Emerging Trends in Chronic Disease Care) | e-Patients.net

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:16:02 +0000

[...] first post was about spreading improvement beyond early adopters, the second was devoted to patient voices, and this will focus on the panel I [...]

By: Patient Voices at CHCF’s Chronic Disease Care Conference | e-Patients.net

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:29:19 +0000

[...] This is the second in a series of posts about the California HealthCare Foundation’s Chronic Disease Care conference (the first was Happy Dogs in a Pile of Sticks). [...]

By: Reducing Disparities, Spreading Improvement | e-Patients.net

Reducing Disparities, Spreading Improvement | e-Patients.net — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:34:38 +0000

[...] Seidman asks a very good question that goes toward our discussion of spreading improvement and the digital divide, “If [targeted] interventions… have been shown to have an [...]

By: e-Patient Dave

e-Patient Dave — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:56:18 +0000

Fabulous write-up, Susannah! I particularly like Gatewood’s adoption curve. That’s a new perspective on the dynamics of a paradigm shift – I’m lifting it for use at work.

So great to hear these reports from the frontier.

By: Terry Graedon

Terry Graedon — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:48:32 +0000

Susannah,

What an inspiring summary! Some of us trying to promote change/transformation will need to adapt these lessons and recruit the cats in our bailiwicks. Our experience is that a large hospital system has a LOT of inertia, and I’m eager to learn about all the ways in which patient-friendly change can be encouraged by those of us who are not CEOs.