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Engage With Grace

Alexandra Drane and her team have a new post on The Health Care Blog about how to put this holiday to work in a new way. Here’s a snippet: Some conversations are easier than others Our original mission – to get more and more people talking about their end of life wishes – hasn’t changed. [...]

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e-patient stories, hc's problem list, news & gossip, policy issues, reforming hc

“No political power center for regular people”
in health reform

Aliya Sternstein writes for NextGov, a site devoted to “technology and the business of government.” We spoke last week for her piece about the White House’s use of social media. There are some people who, when you speak with them, the conversation goes to new places. This was one of those times.

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positive patterns, pt/doc co-care, trends & principles

The power of listening and being heard

This is a special occasion for me, a guest post by Dr. Louise Glaser. Louise is a pediatrician in the Kaiser Permanente system, where among other things she’s Chief of Leadership and Communication Development in the Sacramento area. I met her a year ago at the annual Conference for Global Transformation (CGT), and again this [...]

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general

Health 2.0 meets Ix: The Rise of the Patient Voices

I have been following with real interest the notes and discussions about the Health 2.0/Ix conference that took place in Boston last week.

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