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NPR: Three Tips for Picking a Better Doctor
On Monday NPR’s Scott Hensley posted: “Between the Internet and all the data insurance companies and the government collect on doctors, you’d think it would be a lot easier than it used to be to find a good one. But it’s not.” Sound familiar around here? See his thoughts. (Thanks to friend Cindy Johnson for [...]
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Open Health Data is Here. Welcome To The Great Data Divide!
The New England Journal of Medicine’s Health Policy and Reform just published an opinion piece about the first public release of online report cards regarding 221 of the 1,100 US cardiac surgery programs. The authors believe that this event will fuel the debate regarding the risks and benefits of public reporting, including the question of [...]
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The Power of Mobile
Prepared for Mayo Transform 2010: Thinking Differently About Health Care (video now available). Ten years ago, I wrote the Pew Internet Project’s first report on the impact of the internet on health care, calling it “The Online Health Care Revolution.” Back then, the idea that people were searching online for health information was revolutionary. All [...]
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Dealing – together – with medical error
The Running A Hospital blog has another discussion of dealing with medical error. This time, the hospital has opened up an error of its own (a wrong side surgery) for examination by the Open School of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Sample comments: From IHI’s Jim Conway: “Our systems are too complex to expect merely [...]
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Doctors Say One Thing, Patients Hear Another
The Boston Globe has a revealing article about a study published in Annals of Internal Medicine where patients thought that a heart stent would help prevent another heart attack. But doctors had only told patients that it would relieve future chest pain. How can such a communication disconnect still happen in this modern age of [...]
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Hand Hygiene Saves Lives: video for hospitals to show newly admitted patients
At last weekend’s MITSS patient safety workshop, some of us remarked out loud that it would be great to have a simple video teaching newly admitted hospital patients the importance of hand washing, and even showing them how to speak up to a staff person who doesn’t wash before touching. Well, seek and ye shall [...]
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Job openings at ONC for State HIE
Claudia Williams at ONC has job openings for “a couple of talented folks” to add to the high-energy team, to work on State HIE. Details:
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Caremark, Prescriptions and Personal Information
A friend of mine, Ms. S., recently had an unsettling experience with a company called Caremark (the parent company of pharmacy CVS), whom she fills her prescriptions through. She was reordering a prescription refill she buys through the mail, and needed to pay for it. She tried logging onto their website to pay, as I’m [...]
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