A little over one year ago, this website was started in an attempt to become a “location where the community can come to discuss healthcare.” We wanted a “place where meaningful healthcare issues can be raised and worked on together.”…
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Blog Archives
What we are about: Occupy Healthcare
Changing the patient-centered dialogue: Moving the conversation from why to how
Healthcare increasingly has been built around the wrong things. We enhance electronic medical records when the records themselves are mainly built around maximizing revenue (not the patient). We build new healthcare facilities when these buildings simply are another place for…
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Resources for the revolution
Changing healthcare is a difficult proposition. Here at OH, we spend a lot of time connecting dots. We connect patient stories to policy and we connect larger healthcare policy issues to the evidence. We do all of this because we…
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Taking primary care to the next level?
How can we take primary care to the next level? Do we need to? It is well established that there is shortage of primary care providers in the country. From the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ): “In 2010,…
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Tagged with: health policy, healthcare, primary care, workforce
Posted in healthcare, Innovation, medical education, workforce
Posted in healthcare, Innovation, medical education, workforce
#HCSM review: Who’s missing in HCSM?
I was surprised when I was asked last week to be the host of this week’s Health Care Social Media Review. I do technically have a blog, but I’m much bigger on guest posting than I am on maintaining my…
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Tagged with: #hcsm, body positive, global health, global south, health activism, health equity, lgbt
Posted in Community, healthcare, Innovation, politics, public health, Social Determinents of Health
Posted in Community, healthcare, Innovation, politics, public health, Social Determinents of Health
Storytelling in healthcare
How important is storytelling in healthcare? With any attempts to make change, there is a story helping “ignite the flame“. From Dr. Atul Gawande: “In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.…
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Call for submissions: Who’s missing in HCSM?
So, it looks like I’ll be hosting the next edition of the Health Care Social Media Review (HCSM Review) next week, Wednesday, September 5th. HCSM Review is a bi-weekly blog carnival for everyone interested in health care social media. Its…
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Healthcare innovation and social media
How can we connect healthcare innovation and social media? When I asked myself this question, the only answer I could come up with was that we already have. Consider the following example: #hcsm, or Healthcare Communications & Social Media: This…
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The history of the American railroad system and why this matters for healthcare
What does the history of the American railroad system and healthcare have in common? Growing up, I always found trains and the railways to be fascinating. I remember my Uncle had a model train set in his basement that weaved…
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Integrated healthcare and its importance: Separating the inseparable
In today’s healthcare climate, policy makers are looking for ways to create a more efficient and effective integrated healthcare delivery systems. We have Accountable Care Organizations that are trying to pull partners together to hold each other accountable for the…
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Tagged with: financing, healthcare, healthcare policy, integrated healthcare, integration
Posted in healthcare, Innovation
Posted in healthcare, Innovation
Medical care in the U.S.: A matter of Life or Debt || #occupyhealthcare #singlepayernow #VoteGreen http://t.co/vwoM4T7SW31 week ago from Tweet Button
Greed, fear and other barriers to #healthcare as a #humanright || #occupyhealthcare #singlepayer #singlepayernow http://t.co/U92xxVfLZg1 week ago from Tweet Button
@deedeeb8 THE ACA an acronym for "A"ll of the great doctors will "C"ost you "A"nother $10,000/yr..#occupyhealthcare #noobamacare1 week ago from web
