by e-Patient Dave | Feb 25, 2011
In December we posted about practice variation and shared decision making (SDM), a field of research originated at Dartmouth decades ago and best known as publisher of the Dartmouth Atlas, which describes the amazing amount of unexplained variation in how many doctors...
by Jon Lebkowsky | Nov 26, 2010
I spoke recently at a summit organized by Consumers Union’s Safe Patient Project, and learned in detail about the persistence and prevalence of hospital-acquired infections and other safety risks. Hospitals are not as safe as they should and could be, and...
by Susannah Fox | Nov 22, 2010
I have seen the future of health and it’s networks (with apologies to Lincoln Steffens). Chronic disease is exploding in the U.S. The number of primary care health professionals is declining. Behavior change is difficult. But what are we going to do about it?...
by Susannah Fox | Nov 1, 2010
I was honored to be invited to TEDMED by the Pioneer Portfolio of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Their team encouraged all attendees to complete one of three sentences: “To improve health and health care, we need to start asking…” “To...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 2, 2010
My mom shot me a note today about this cover story in the new Reader’s Digest. Unhappy reading but good patient education. Cites some familiar names, e.g. Peter Pronovost and Robert Wachter. It’s good to see “wake up” messages in the mass...
by Peter Frishauf | Aug 26, 2010
We welcome Peter Frishauf as an author on our blog. Peter is on the Editorial Board [brief bio] of our Society’s Journal of Participatory Medicine, and as described below, has already authored some important material on this subject. His first post here is...
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