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National Pain Day

Posted on May 10, 2013 by Ben Miller — 14 Comments ↓

By Angelika Byczkowski I resent that we pain patients are essentially being called liars by the anti-opioid brigade, as they refuse to believe our pain is as extreme and debilitating as we claim. Some of the non-opiate medications they propose…

Tagged with: health, pain, patient, patient-centered
Posted in Our Stories

I am visible. My disease is not.

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Ben Miller — 86 Comments ↓

By Michael Hyatt I am disabled. I have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), a genetic disorder that keeps me in constant pain every minute of my life. It is an invisible disease. You could look at me, and if you saw past…

Tagged with: health, healthcare
Posted in Our Stories

Changing the patient-centered dialogue: Moving the conversation from why to how

Posted on October 10, 2012 by Ben Miller — 1 Comment ↓

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…

Tagged with: health, patient-centered
Posted in healthcare, Innovation

Beyond pink

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Ben Miller — 46 Comments ↓

By Laura Wells, Stage IV Metastatic Breast Cancer Fighter When I was first diagnosed with breast cancer, I found it hard to embrace the “Pink Ribbon” and all it stood for. I was not happy to be joining the club,…

Tagged with: cancer, health
Posted in Our Stories

When tragedy strikes close to home

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Ben Miller — 6 Comments ↓

I live in Denver. I work in Aurora. I know exactly where the Century 16 theater is located; I live approximately 8 miles from there. When horrific scenes like this unfold as they did last night and this morning, it…

Tagged with: Denver, health
Posted in healthcare

The role of relationship building in creating change

Posted on January 23, 2012 by pursuitofPH — 1 Comment ↓

I came across this post by Craig Lefebvre last year, blogged about it at the time, and have since printed out his list and put it up by my desk – it so eloquently captures what I think should be some of…

Tagged with: change, health, healthcare, occupy healthcare, relationships
Posted in healthcare, Innovation

No more “partialty” care in healthcare: Fighting fragmentation at the clinical level

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Ben Miller — No Comments ↓

We are rerunning this post as more and more news events are drawing the attention to healthcare costs. Let us know what you think. The current healthcare system is inherently fragmented with all the various pieces vying for attention. The…

Tagged with: change, health, healthcare, policy
Posted in healthcare, Innovation

New Year’s Resolutions to Occupy Health

Posted on December 30, 2011 by crgonzalez — No Comments ↓

We are all familiar with the well-worn pattern of making New Year’s resolutions only to abandon them a few weeks out of the gate. What if we decided to re-set the clock on our resolutions once a month and in…

Tagged with: health, health behavior, healthcare
Posted in Health behavior, healthcare

How well do you know Grand Junction, Colorado?

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Ben Miller — 1 Comment ↓

Grand Junction, Colorado has important lessons to teach the country about healthcare. These lessons have very real and practical implications for any redesign of healthcare. In fact, some may say that many of the answers to the unanswerable question of…

Tagged with: change, Colorado, health, healthcare, innovation, insurance
Posted in healthcare, medical education, public health, Social Determinents of Health