Patient Empowerment Archives - Page 8 of 11

A Powerful Union – Relationships within Health Team

by Danny van Leeuwen | Oct 12, 2013

The relationship between health team members, especially people and their clinicians and caregivers, frequently arises as a topic of this blog. Let me share with you one of the values of Advocates. I work for Advocates as VP of Quality. We express our values...

Health Plan Member Engagement and Empowerment Index: The EveryMove 100

by David Harlow | Aug 28, 2013

There’s a new index in town. This week’s entrant is the EveryMove 100, a ranking of health plans across the US “based on how they engage with and empower consumers to manage their own health.” according to the presser. (EveryMove is a health...

Cleveland Clinic To Give Patients Full Access to Data

by Kathleen O'Malley | Jun 10, 2013

Healthcare IT News posted a detailed story about how the Cleveland Clinic plans to roll out its new MyChart EMR to give patients complete access to their health records by the end of 2013. According to the article, the Cleveland Clinic believes this move is “the...

Blue Button Plus Challenge – Call for Patient Input

by David Harlow | Jun 5, 2013

ONC is sponsoring the Blue Button Plus Challenge — putting up some prize money to incentivize teams of developers to come up with solutions to the problem of getting patient data to patients. The first phase of the challenge is crowdsourcing ideas from patients...

Angelina Jolie, BRCA1, Public Health, Patent Law — & the Empowered Patient

by David Harlow | May 20, 2013

Going public recently with her story of a prophylactic double mastectomy after testing positive for BRCA1 (a gene linked to breast cancer) via an op-ed piece in the New York Times, Angelina Jolie is clearly trying to get the message out that radical choices must...