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Welcome to my blog!

I am a family physician with an interest in patient empowerment and patient-centered health information technology. In 2007, I decided to relocate to Washington, DC, from Seattle, Washington, to further my interests in patient-centered health care, information technology, and promoting diversity in communities and the medical profession.

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I am collaborating on one other blog, which is DailyKaizen, which is about LEAN in health care.

Independence:The views in this blog are strictly mine and should not be attributed to any organization mentioned on this site.

Conflict of Interest: I do not have any financial interest or ties to, and have not received any honoraria from, pharmaceutical or device manufacturers.

–Ted Eytan

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Ted Eytan, MD MS MPH
Washington, DC, USA

Ted Eytan currently works as a Medical Director for Delivery Systems Operations Improvement for the Permanente Federation, LLC. His experience is in working with large medical groups, patients, and technologists to bring health care consumers useful information and decision-making health tools, to ensure that patients have an active role in their own health care.

Dr. Eytan is board certified in family practice. He has relocated to Washington, DC, from Seattle, working in the area of patient-centered health care enabled by technology, with organizations including the California Healthcare Foundation.

He attended medical school at the University of Arizona. He received his master’s of public health degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and his master’s of science, health services degree from the University of Washington. He completed his residency training at Group Health and his fellowship training in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at the University of Washington in 2000.

His particular interests are patient and family involvement in care, health information technology, and supporting the health and diversity of communities.