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Collaborative Notes, Engaged Partners, Fewer Errors

Collaborative Notes, Engaged Partners, Fewer Errors

by | Jun 13, 2022

Patients, care partners & clinicians can reduce record errors with collaborative notes. Dr. Peter Elias shares his note-writing with collaborative partners. Proem Expecting an error-free medical record seems unreasonable – too many opportunities, too many forces,...
Patient Advocates on National Boards: Mind the Sausage

Patient Advocates on National Boards: Mind the Sausage

by | Apr 18, 2022

Engaging patients differs depending on the role. Those on national Boards lead, strategize, advocate, communicate. Adam Thompson is on the Board of NQF. Listen in. Proem As a nurse, I studied individual health. Then I became a student of organizational health. That...
Coaching for Peak Performance and Best Health

Coaching for Peak Performance and Best Health

by | Jan 3, 2022

Coaching, critical to my success in life, art, politics, advocacy. Still need to do my own work & make choices. Listen to a session with one of my coaches, Jan Oldenburg https://health-hats.com/pod153/ or watch it on YouTube https://youtu.be/4TnT6Pk3TgM or read it...
Cost, In Any Other Language

Cost, In Any Other Language

by | Oct 18, 2021

What does healthcare cost mean? I can’t explain it. Listen to Matt Pickering from Nat Quality Forum help us out. Consider serving as a patient rep with NQF. Listen to full 41 min episode here https://health-hats.com/pod145/ YouTube Episode Trailer Proem If a grocery...
Innovation, Local Persistence

Innovation, Local Persistence

by | Oct 4, 2021

Innovation is not like switching on a lightbulb for the world. Rather it’s local iterative, persistent steps. Thoughts from the Patient Experience Symposium. Listen to the podcast here https://health-hats.com/pod144/ Proem As I left the Patient Experience...

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