by David Harlow | Dec 17, 2012
A recent Press Ganey white paper highlights an association between HCAHPS performance — patient experience scores — and lower rates of readmission. (Performance Insights – The Relationship Between HCAHPS Performance and Readmission Penalties.) With...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 8, 2012
During a conversation with a friend last week I had a hare-brained thought – not rare, as friends know, but this one was thought-provoking. So, patients and providers and everyone else, let’s talk about this: If diagnosis magically became automated –...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 7, 2012
Check this trailer for a new program, to be launched in January, produced by WNED, the PBS affiliate in Buffalo: One of the challenges of starting a movement like this, especially a Society with little budget, is that you have to bootstrap, like any modern business:...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Oct 25, 2012
Today’s guest blogger, author and SPM Secretary Nancy Finn, originally posted this essay on her personal blog. Care coordination requires that the right information reaches the right people within an optimal time frame, so that a patient’s full information...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 23, 2012
Quick, quick, do this now! Â Go add your signature to the hundreds who have already signed – this is about getting us access to our lab results, the same as any other health data! How important is this? Â Here’s a video of SPM member Ann Waldo discussing it...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 22, 2012
TEDMED last April was a big time for our Society. Many members were there, especially our artist-in-residence Regina Holliday and videographer Ross Martin, who collected the footage for his now-famous Gimme My DaM Data video. And, as we reported here, The Role of the...
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