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Agency seeks *patients*(!) for Patient Centered Outcomes project. Too few are stepping up! (You??)
Corrections 8:45 pm ET Monday 10/24: This post’s title originally said HHS was seeking patients. Actually it’s PCORI, a new non-government agency, as described below. Both affect the future of healthcare, but PCORI isn’t part of HHS. The title also said “None are stepping up,” which disrespected those who had. “Too few” is better. As [...]
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Healthcare journalists point out difficulty of using Joint Commission’s hospital quality site
Empowered patients know they’re responsible for their choice of care providers. We usually follow our clinicians’ advice, but we take responsibility for it. That’s hard when a quality agency obscures its findings. So I object to a reality reported this week by AHCJ, the Association of Health Care Journalists: Joint Commission site obscures information. Excerpt: (emphasis added)
Read Moregeneral, policy issues, reforming hc, trends & principles
KQED examines realities of Canadian healthcare
Good piece on NPR this morning about what a KQED correspondent found when she went to Canada and talked to citizens and doctors about their experience of wait times. Click to go to their site and listen. One might ask, what does this have to do with patient empowerment? In my view, one of the [...]
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Question For President Obama
Guest Post: Cindy Throop from http://Open-Health.us, a participatory forum dedicated to effectively including patients in the discussion, planning, and evaluation of health care reform. A lot of money is about to be invested in health care, particularly into health information technology (HIT). Does this mean that when your health care provider(s) implement electronic medical records, [...]
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