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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Creating a healthcare system that is centered on the needs of patients and their families is a key to the kind of transformation that is needed in the United States. Patient-Centered Care is both very simple and very complex. Creating…
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Being patient-centered is all the rage. Healthcare organizations make a big deal about having “patient involvement;” We have an entire center focused on patient-centered outcomes; We see federal agencies releasing reports on patient-centered care and empowerment; and, We even have…
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In healthcare one of the key issues we often have to address is fragmentation. When we deliver care, often we do it in silos with little or no incentive to work with other disciplines. Much of this behavior is driven…
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Access to information for patients and their family members is one of the most important steps in the transformation of the U.S. healthcare system. Increasingly patients want access to information about their own healthcare. There may have been a time…
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In a recent article in the Atlantic on why our “best and brightest” end up in Silicon Valley and not Washington, D.C., the author describes a shift where historically the “up and coming” would enter politics to make a difference,…
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