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Walking the walk, not through an airport (View on Flickr.com) Thanks to Howard Chiou (@medxanthro) at Emory University, I had the awesome opportunity to talk about Kaiser Permanente’s environmental stewardship work ( everything you need to know is here: http://kp.org/green ) at the Rollins School of Public Health (See: First, Do Earth No Harm). Also [...]
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Tweeting Regina Tweeting When I was studying and passionate about implementing the Toyota Management System to improve efficiency in health information technology, someone said to me, “You’re going to LEAN yourself out of a job at this rate.” My response was, “I hope so.” I fired myself about 18 months later…. On Friday I was [...]
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Insurer Climate Risk Disclosure Survey: 2012 Findings and Recommendations - Ceres
When I asked about the phenomenon of climate change and if the impact on our health was real, a wise person once said to me, “look at insurance companies.” Meaning, look at the industry whose role in society is to understand risk. This report put out by Ceres (@ceresnews), a nonprofit organization advocating for sustainability leadership, capitalized, or [...]
1commentTCR Public Reports – The Climate Registry – Kaiser Permanente is now the first U.S. healthcare system to complete a fully verified GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions inventory. Anyone can view the full 2010 report at The Climate Registry’s website: www.tcrreports.org Our emissions hotspots are mainly caused by building energy use (91% of our carbon footprint) [...]
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What innovation looks like – View on Flickr.com Like this. Click on the image to see larger size. These are not medical charts (this is Kaiser Permanente, remember….no paper charts), they are folders of innovation projects being supported by La Mesa Medical Offices Physician in Charge, Martin (“Marty”) Barolac, MD, who is also a practicing [...]
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Jeff (@dermdoc) and Jackie, at your service – View on Flickr.com When you want to learn about medical practice in the era of online social collaboration, social media, in the post-EHR world of a connected, integrated, member-centered health system, where do you go? Easy answer, Jeff Benabio, MD, aka @dermdoc . Luckily for me and [...]
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Thaler R, Tucker W. Smarter Information, Smarter Consumers. Harvard Business Review. 2013:45–54
This is an article co-written by Richard Thaler (of “Nudge” fame) and Will Tucker about something called “Smart Disclosure,” which is the US Government term for a concept that Dick advanced in his 2008 book. In the UK, it’s called “midata” and it is: the “timely release of complex information and data in standardized, machine-readable [...]