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Keeping Patients in the Dark: SIIPC14

by | Jul 2, 2014

  Several SPM members were in attendance at the recent SIIPC14 conference at Dartmouth, where the ongoing work on healthcare system transformation  has been the source of much great content on e-patients.net over the years. Casey Quinlan – yes, yours truly...

Of half gods and mortals: Aesculapian authority

by | Jun 17, 2014

Written in collaboration with Linda Trietler, MSN, RN – PhD student.  Review of Kalisch, B. J. (1975). Of half-gods and mortals: Aesculapian authority. Nursing Outlook, 23(1), 22-28. As we work to develop a collaborative and patient centered health care system...

JAMA: Reducing the Trauma of Hospitalization

by | May 6, 2014

Thanks to member Marilyn Mann for sharing this free article in JAMA with a suggestion on how to better personalize the patient’s hospital stay – really sensible suggestions. One reads them and wonders why they are not in place already. An excerpt: Stress...

The Iceberg Waiting for Your Health Care Data

by | May 1, 2014

The Heartbleed web security exploit was first publicized several weeks ago. In the time since then, numerous web-based services have let their users know (some more clearly than others) whether and how their data security was compromised by this OpenSSL flaw that has...

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