PM Tech

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Applying Tom Gilbert’s performance improvement framework to the “compliance” issue

e-Patient Dave | April 25, 2012

I participated today in a webinar hosted by eHI. My slides arrived (ahem) too late to be broadcast, so I posted them online, with comments, on my site. In case you don’t click through to the whole thing, here’s a quick excerpt: Long ago in another career I learned about Thomas Gilbert (1927-1995), a real [...]

general, PM Tech, Why PM

Scott Strange: The Only “Thing” that Can Empower You Is You

Kathleen O'Malley | April 9, 2012

This guest post by SPM member Scott Strange originally appeared on his blog, Strangely Diabetic. Scott will host this week’s #s4pm Tweetchat on Wednesday, April 11 at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific (username @Strangely_t1) on #diabetes. It seems that every day we read a new announcement about some new health app or service that will empower you. [...]

e-pts resources, PM Tech, reforming hc, trends & principles

Self-Service Healthcare?

Dan Hoch | April 5, 2012

In a recent commentary on the American Public Media program Marketplace Money, Francis Frei discussed the failure of self check-out at supermarkets. Her insightful commentary is clearly based on both personal experience as well as her professional knowledge of operations management and customer behavior (she is a professor at Harvard Business School). The piece is [...]

e-pts resources, general, PM Tech

Katie Matlack: iOS medical peripherals: convenient and connected

Kathleen O'Malley | February 1, 2012

This guest post from Katie Matlack (reposted from the free site Software Advice) launches a new section of e-Patients.net: “PM Tech.” This special branch of e-patient resources is gaining importance as smartphones and tablets become ever more mainstream. Devices that were once just toys for techies are now the favorite tools of many ex-technophobes — [...]