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Imagine someone had been managing your data: next anecdote

by | Jun 19, 2009

Next anecdote about poorly managed medical data: Amen! Just had an incident where my SS# was attached to a different patient’s name in the electronic med record. And the health facility will not tell me where the error occured, or how long someone else’s name was...

“Moms, do not give up.”

by | Jun 10, 2009

This item from ABC News nearly brought tears to my eyes. The first signs that something was wrong with 11-year-old Connor Teare came when he was a toddler. His muscles were growing increasingly rigid and becoming more difficult to move. He went from leg braces to a...

e-Patients Demand: Put An End To
Data-Hugging Disorder

by | Jun 4, 2009

“Statistics should be the intellectual sidewalks of a society, and people should be able to build businesses and operate on the side of them” This quote from Hans Rosling is part of a speech where he presented the following: Database-hugging disorder (Dbhd): A...

The power of listening and being heard

by | May 25, 2009

This is a special occasion for me, a guest post by Dr. Louise Glaser. Louise is a pediatrician in the Kaiser Permanente system, where among other things she’s Chief of Leadership and Communication Development in the Sacramento area. I met her a year ago at the annual...

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