by e-Patient Dave | Dec 24, 2012
In the Society for Participatory Medicine we talk about professionals and patients being full partners in care. And sometimes, as in any partnership, the two part. Have you ever “fired” anyone? Before it got to that point, did you express your concern...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 18, 2012
Most of our readers are familiar with the brief animated video introduced last summer by ONC, the health IT group in the US government. (If you haven’t seen it, you can watch it below, in long and short versions.) Now they’ve introduced a new poster (click...
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 Michael Millenson | Dec 11, 2012
The new Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has been asking different stakeholders about the most important issues to address with the hundreds of millions of dollars the quasi-governmental group will shortly be doling out in grants. Not surprisingly,...
by David Harlow | Nov 30, 2012
The latest news story to examine the issue of patient access to implantable cardiac defibrillator data (a variation on the theme of “gimme my damn data”) is an in-depth, Page One Wall Street Journal story featuring Society for Participatory Medicine...
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