NPR has a great blog on their website called “Shots” about current events in health care. Last week Scott Hensley, the main blogger there, posted about a recent article on treatment of prostate cancer from the Archives of Internal Medicine. If you look at the article, you may notice a very small subheading above the article’s [...]
3Aug10
Watchful Waiting
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Posted in medical mystery, primary care, research, technology
Tagged cancer, prostate cancer, PSA, watchful waiting
Tagged cancer, prostate cancer, PSA, watchful waiting
Dear Readers: This was a pitch for a magazine article, so I apologize if it’s a little too wonk-y. I decided to post it here to see what other ideas you could drum up. Quick summary: There’s an idea floating around called the Patient-Centered Medical Home–a way to integrate, automate, and improve how primary medical [...]
6Jun10
Exploring Emotion
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” -Maya Angelou This quote was used as an epigram in a couple of different talks at the first-ever Patient Experience Summit hosted by the Cleveland Clinic. The summit was an opportunity to bring [...]
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Posted in computers, patient experience, technology
Tagged data mining, emotion, sentiment analysis
Tagged data mining, emotion, sentiment analysis
Time to say a thing or two about research. At academic medical centers (AMCs–what we used to call ‘teaching hospitals’) like GlassHospital, the holy trinity of mission is comprised of patient care teaching research. I used to joke that at GlassHospital, our priority list was research research research —————– patient care teaching. We’re moving away [...]
11Apr10
Med Reconciliation
The recently signed health care reform bill was passed through a process called reconciliation. This was a bit controversial politically, because the unified Republican opposition wanted to prevent the bill from becoming law. In this context, reconciliation meant negotiating a compromise to the House and the Senate versions of the bill through budget negotiations to [...]
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Posted in hospital care, patient experience, technology
Tagged patient safety, prescription drugs
Tagged patient safety, prescription drugs
