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Through the Maze: A New Model for Equitable Health Data Exchange

by Eric Bersh | Jun 6, 2023

My brother Jacob was born with a chronic neurological condition that caused him permanent physical and mental disabilities. As the only other child in a single parent family, I was often with Jacob during his frequent hospital stays and doctor visits. It is through...

How Trust Fuels Equitable Health Outcomes

by Eric Bersh | May 24, 2023

At the Society for Participatory Medicine, we recognize trust and respect as a two-way relational dynamic essential to our mission to transform the culture of healthcare relationships so people can live their best lives (see our Participatory Medicine manifesto). And...

Cost, In Any Other Language

by Danny van Leeuwen | 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...

Engage! Community Organizing, Coalitions & Infrastructure

by Danny van Leeuwen | Nov 30, 2020

Healthcare activists need communities to affect change. Considering public-private partnership with NCQA’s Digital Measurement Community with Ben Hamlin. Proem Activists seek to inform and nudge change for the better – political, social, cultural, healthcare,...

Epic, Using Scare Tactics & Paternalism, Opposes ONC Rule

by John Grohol | Jan 28, 2020

Epic is a widely used Electronic Health Record (EHR) system by thousands of hospitals across the United States. There’s a very good chance that your physician uses Epic software in their everyday practice. Among many other tasks, Epic’s software helps...

Got Candles? Happy 30th Birthday to the World Wide Web!

by Sarah Krüg | Mar 12, 2019

“Vague but exciting…,” was the response Sir Tim Berners-Lee received when he submitted a proposal for an information management system (aka the world wide web) to his supervisor in March of 1989. Three decades later, we have hit a key milestone, and approximately half...