New Year’s Resolutions for E-patients
By this point in January we are all wearing our Fitbits and logging our every mouthful into Lose It!, but beyond our own quantified self, what resolutions have we made to be better e-patient advocates?...
View ArticleResearch Literacy and the Democratization of Data
In last week’s post, New Year’s Resolutions for E-patients, I used the term research literacy. Go ahead. Google it. “research literacy” I’ll wait. What did you find? Nothing. Exactly. Your heard it...
View ArticleSupporting Patient Engagement
As the patient engagement “movement” grows, there are many health care practitioners and health systems who want to interact differently with patients – whether to improve patient satisfaction scores,...
View ArticlePCORI National Patient and Stakeholder Dialogue
Today the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute held a National Patient and Stakeholder Dialogue at the National Press Club. #pcoridialogue The purpose of this meeting was to facilitate...
View ArticleWe Are All Doctors
Well of course we are not all doctors. What a ludicrous statement. Just because I have changed a band-aid, taken a temperature, “diagnosed” a headache and appropriately treated with an acetaminophen,...
View ArticleCumulative Burden: The real barrier to adherence for complex patients?
Cumulative Burden: The real barrier to adherence for complex patients? Or Confessions of an Engaged Patient Recently I participated in an excellent meeting whose primary theme was patient adherence. (...
View ArticleA Patient Summer
And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon...
View ArticleWhy I Fired my Doctor & What You Should Look For in Yours
Cross-posted with EHealthEquity News. I consider myself an activated (Level 4 on Dr. Judith Hibbard’s Patient Activation Measure), engaged (Lifetime Member of the Society for Participatory Medicine),...
View ArticleAll Hepatitis C Patients Deserve Access to Cures
Today is World Hepatitis Day. We should have much to celebrate. Recent FDA approvals have given liver patients and providers medications with 90-100% cure rates with shorter treatment times, fewer...
View Article15 Things Shaping Patient Experience in 2015
Patient Experience: The biggest thing shaping patient experience is that patient experience now matters, due to satisfaction scores and financial penalties among the largest drivers. The Affordable...
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