Now Reading: Integrating Patient- and Family-Centered Care With Health Policy
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As Regina Holliday (@ReginaHolliday) and I discussed in our TEDx Talk (“Embrace of Failure” – Henry Ford Innovation Institute), health care is addicted to not involving patients and families in the design of the system that’s built for their benefit. Multiple reasons, including fear, lack of self-confidence, and also not knowing how to do it. [...]
Come to May’s Technology Focus in Washington, DC and online: Vital Connect
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Register for online (streamed in HD) or in person attendance here. Technology Focus is a monthly hosted series created in partnership with the Kaiser Permanente Innovation and Advanced Technology Group. We will interact with technology and people that have the potential to produce health in medical care and beyond, where people live, work, learn, pray, [...]
Transportation and Health : A Tour of the Future
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On the occasion of this month’s community tour, “Transportation and Health,” I refreshed the table I originally published in this post: Comparing the stats: The US Food System and US Health Care System | Ted Eytan, MD. Here are those numbers. How much $ % US GDP Number of workers Proportion of total US workforce [...]
Photo Friday: Born to be a Leader (beginning with being baby in a drawer)
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When I talk to people about one of the early innovations of Sidney Garfield, MD, the co-founder of Kaiser Permanente, I like to mention the “baby in a drawer,” which was designed by him to support mother-baby bonding in an era (1953) where this was not the norm. See this blog post: KP’s ‘Baby in [...]
April, 2013 Community Tour: “Transportation and Health”
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(Photo credit: MV Jantzen http://flic.kr/p/bsrxJd ) April’s community tour of the Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health (@kptotalhealth) is now scheduled for April 22, 2013 at 12:30pm. Please click on one of these links to sign up via your favorite social network (Facebook or Google Plus) The theme this month is “transportation and health” which we know [...]
Photo Friday: National LGBT Health Awareness Week, Compassion
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This week’s photograph, at the end of National Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Health Awareness week (see: Statement by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on LGBT Health Awareness Week), takes us to where the week began. View LGBT Health Awareness Week Tour – learning about trans health 20787 on Flickr.com Susan Rowe, who has been living as [...]
Every Body Walk! and Make Roads Safe – hyper-Ignite at American Medical Student Association Annual Convention 2013
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Help this Muppet Below in timed version and self-advanced version, given at the 2013 American Medical Student Association Annual Convention (@AMSANational), in Washington, DC. I decided to stray a bit from the Ignite format and instead do what I’m calling a hyper-ignite. 9.5 seconds per slide instead of 15. It’s 33% more efficient! Enjoy, and [...]