The KP Newscenter article about my Twitterview….
Ted Eytan, MD, “Twitterviewed” by Diario Medico | Kaiser Permanente News Center
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Ted Eytan, MD, “Twitterviewed” by Diario Medico | Kaiser Permanente News Center
February 13th, 2009 | Popularity: 27% 1 commentInteractive Map: Media Sources With No Financial Ties (Add yourself)
December 19th, 2008 | Popularity: 25% 4 commentsI have been wanting to do something interesting with maps for awhile, and I thought a map of available media sources with no financial ties was as good a reason as any, so I created this one for people to identify themselves as individuals without financial ties to device or drug manufacturers for at least 5 years.
This is based on the following posts on my blog and on e-patients.net. Feel free to read those for more background.
“No financial ties” is defined as “I do not have any financial interest or ties to, and have not received any honoraria from, pharmaceutical or device manufacturers.”
To add your name/location, just hit the “Add” button in the map above. Provide whatever information you would like. Your address will not be shown, just your location. As an example here’s my entry: Ted Eytan.
If you’d like to go to the map directly and add yourself there, the link is here.
Feedback and comments welcomed.
“I’m Glad You Were Here….” at the Commonwealth Club
October 22nd, 2008 | Popularity: 26% 0 comments | Leave a replyOn the day before the Health2.0 Conference began, I was delighted to sit on a panel about “Health 2.0″ with experts Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, who operates the Health Populi blog, and Amy Tenderich, who operates Diabetes Mine , a resource for patients, both thought leaders in Health 2.0. The panel was moderated by Sarah Varney, who is well known on her work for the California Report.
The quote in the title of the post was the comment that I made to Amy afterward, at which point she made the exact same comment back to me. I knew a little about The Commonwealth Club from their About page..
The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation’s oldest and largest public affairs forum, bringing together its more than 18,000 members for over 400 annual events on topics ranging across politics, culture, society and the economy.
Founded in 1903, The Commonwealth Club has played host to a diverse and distinctive array of speakers, from Teddy Roosevelt in 1911 to Erin Brockovich in 2001. Along the way, Martin Luther King, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Bill Gates have all given landmark speeches at The Club.
..and as I walked to the studio, I actually said to myself, “Jane and Amy will be there with me, they will make sure this goes smoothly – they’re the experts.” This is because of the scope of the audience (unknown, in person and on the radio) and the questions, based on Sarah’s experience and audience interests, could be anything. As I am still gaining comfort with the size of Kaiser Permanente’s reach in this area (this will be an ongoing theme for quite awhile), both aspects of the situation made me less uncomfortable because of Amy and Jane’s presence. And sure enough, their experience and knowledge in the industry and among patients is significant.
I was surprised to hear Amy and Jane echo the same sentiments to me that I had in my mind. My conclusion – we need each other, and isn’t that a metaphor for health care.
Thanks again to the sponsors of this event, the California Healthcare Foundation for bringing us together to learn this, live, in front of Californians.
The show is scheduled to be broadcast on KLIV on November 6. I’ll post a link when it’s available.
My AHRQ M&M Case & Commentary – The Promise of Patient and Family Involvement
October 13th, 2008 | Popularity: 25% 0 comments | Leave a replyI wrote this month’s spotlight case in AHRQ’s Web M&M.
At first glance, this article looks like a traditional M&M (“Morbidity & Mortality”) review of an internal medicine case, replete with lab values, diagnostic discussions, and the like. However, the cases on this site stretch beyond diagnostics, as I found.
Bob Wachter, MD and his team invited me to write a commentary on a case about recurrent hypoglycemia that was about system supports rather than diagnostic and clinical errors. This included putting together all the thoughts on having an accessible EHR, patient and family involvement in care, and in the design of the system. The whole thing is in there, wrapped in a package for clinicians and those who support them to review and ponder.
It’s the spotlight case this month, and as I review it, I remember all of the people along the way who added this idea or that idea (and there’s many more to add). You’ll probably recognize yourselves in there….
With thanks to Bob and team for envisioning that a difficult medical case could be the foundation for a discussion about what Health 2.0 will do for our nation. See what you think.
Quoted in the New York Times : Many Seek Second Opinions From Health Sites and Online Communities – NYTimes.com
September 30th, 2008 | Popularity: 19% 2 commentsMany Seek Second Opinions From Health Sites and Online Communities – NYTimes.com
All right, maybe this is the very first media I have done as an employee of The Permanente Federation rather than the recent television piece on NewsChannel 8. This interview actually occurred during the first week of my new employment, and was mostly based on my previous work with the California Healthcare Foundation.
I think John Schwartz has done a nice job inquiring about the phenomena of “Health 2.0″ and writing about what it means for patients. See what you think.
Talking about Interoperability on Washington’s Newschannel 8
September 24th, 2008 | Popularity: 23% 1 comment
Today was my very first work with the media as an employee of The Permanente Federation. I was asked to support a national conversation led yesterday by colleagues George Peredy, MD, Simon Cohn, MD, and Andy Wiesenthal, MD, regarding interoperability of health records between Kaiser Permanente and Veterans Affairs, which I was happy to do.
The interview took place at Washington’s NewsChannel 8, in Rosslyn, VA, which also hosts ABC News 7 and the Politico organizations. As I was walked around the facility, they said I could snap photos of the newsroom, so I did, and they are posted here.
As part of preparing for the day, I reviewed some of the numbers around Kaiser Permanente member adoption of personal health records, and I have to say, it is really at a scale that is unfathomable (or at least at a scale I will need to begin fathoming) – almost 2.5 million members with access to secure features on kp.org, 300,000 new users in the 2nd quarter of 2008, 1.5 million secure e-mails sent to doctors, 4.2 million test results viewed online. There are on average 122,000 visits to kp.org every day – in the space of a week this may be as many outpatients as some health systems manage in a year.
I didn’t get asked information at that level of detail – it just reminded me that there’s a lot to represent in this organization. I did get asked about the demonstration that happened yesterday, by anchor Dave Lucas and he seemed very impressed at the potential breakthrough this could be for Wounded Warriors and patients everywhere. It turned out that Dave has good experience here – he said after the interview that he’s been a medical reporter for 15 years and knows how patients see the value of being connected to their information at the right time. I think the work demonstrated yesterday is a great step forward, and that it’s great to have people in media who work with patients and know what they expect to see in their health care system. We all improve that way.
I’m not sure if I’ll get access to video to post here or not, but in the meantime, thanks to everyone at NewsChannel 8 for the warm welcome (even at the front desk, where I got great coaching to “smile, and it’ll be all right.”), and for the chance to have a seat in the world-famous Goss’ Garage while I was waiting!
In Bisnow on Business: Washington DC Local Medical News
September 10th, 2008 | Popularity: 20% 0 comments | Leave a reply
(I’m below the fold)
A dream realized: Made it into Bisnow on Business: Washington DC Local Medical News: WHAT DOCS
SHOULD READ. Now I’m really a Washingtonian, complete with driver’s license and taxpaying privileges.
I must say, in the background of the humorous sarcsasm of the corporate shackles comment in the article: Employed, Unemployed, what does that mean anymore in the context of ideas like the Results Only Work Environment, in a city where people work to improve the health of the nation in a diversity of ways, as part of a generation that challenges the importance of organizational affiliation?
I’ve been working this whole time and learned a ton, online and offline – and one of the things I’ve learned is that this is not dependent on being in a big company, or a company at all. It’s what you do for people and how you learn to be better at it every day.
Shackled or not (mostly not), this is a great community to be a part of and I am honored to support it along with all of the others profiled by Curtis and the Bisnow team. Keep up the great work!
What Healthcare Could Learn from Amazon – ClickZ
August 13th, 2008 | Popularity: 22% 0 comments | Leave a reply- What Healthcare Could Learn from Amazon – ClickZ – Article I was interviewed for. Sadly the experience described by the patient in the article is not uncommon. And more sadly, they probably didn't know how common it was until it happened to them. Nice commentary from my former boss, Matt Handley, MD, at Group Health Cooperative, nice to know they are still setting an example.
Health care found to be better with online help: Seattle PI
June 30th, 2008 | Popularity: 28% 0 comments | Leave a replyHealth care found to be better with online help – Nice localization of the landmark Group Health study on managing hypertension using Web services, from the Seattle PI.
So…if the study and the community agree that this kind of care is better, and there is data to show that diagnosing “white coat” hypertension is cost-effective, and payers already have reimbursement policies for ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (and older type of technology to figure this out), why not create more modern policies for home blood pressure monitoring?
Presentation: “5 1/2 Reasons Why Patients and Families Should Be Involved, and 2 1/2 Things You Can Do To Help”
June 26th, 2008 | Popularity: 44% 3 commentsI am posting this presentation that I created, commissioned by the California Healthcare Foundation, and supported by the Center for Information Therapy and indirectly, Group Health Cooperative.
It is the presentation that created the need for me to define Health 2.0. It is also the last presentation I will give as as a Group Health employee, and the only time I will be able to give it, due to my my career change.
It’s in slide show format, so feel free to click on any of the images and page through. I had a lot of fun putting it together because it allowed me to reflect on what I learned and how much I have changed in my thinking in just the past year. May the same trend continue.
I would like to extend special thanks to Crosskeys Media, producers of the excellent show “Remaking of American Medicine,” for allowing me to use portions of the content in the interest of supporting patient centered care. I encourage anyone interested in this topic to view or purchase the show. There is an educational license available that allows for use in teaching (as a whole piece, not intended for editing by users). It’s worth it.
Feedback and comments welcomed.
Helping Patients Plug In: Lessons in the Adoption of Online Consumer Tools – CHCF.org
June 13th, 2008 | Popularity: 28% 1 commentPublished! The report I co-authored with Josh Seidman, Ph.D. from the Center for Information Therapy is now online. It describes our experiences out “in the rest of health care” understanding the environment that supports patient centered health information technology. My conclusion: we can make it happen.
Helping Patients Plug In: Lessons in the Adoption of Online Consumer Tools – CHCF.org
In the Seattle Times talking about Web 2.0 and Health Care
May 11th, 2008 | Popularity: 38% 2 commentsI was interviewed by journalist Kyung Song from the Seattle Times for this article, which appeared in today’s paper:
Local News | Group Heath trolling cyberspace to learn what patients think | Seattle Times Newspaper
This was the first interview I have done representing both the organization I work for, and myself as a blogger at the same time. Usually, it’s one or the other, because the words on this blog are my own and not those of my employer (although obviously our approach to patient centered health care is well aligned). The worlds are starting to collide….
I definitely believe that there is content that’s traditionally outside of the physician-patient relationship that can and should be brought in via blogs and the like. We saw it with secure e-mail between patients and physicians to be sure. It changed our relationships, in a healthy, helpful way.
My personal belief about blogs and Web 2.0, though, needs to be coupled with an organization’s need to have a workflow and platform that brings in the right information at the right time. I definitely don’t expect a physician to review the 2,000 RSS feeds of their patients (and I don’t think the patients do, either).
That’s the fun intersection, and it is good pressure, to bring everything about a patient that matters to them into every clinical interaction.
See what you think…
Edelman Trust Barometer; A GenY-friendly Employer; Mike Leavitt’s Blog discussion on the SGR
December 21st, 2007 | Popularity: 54% 0 comments | Leave a replyDecember 16th through December 18th:
- Edelman Trust Barometer – a “person like me” is more trusted than a physician
- Groundswell (Incorporating Charlene Li’s Blog): Blogging policy examples – Examples of organizational blog policies
- Managing Health Online Discussed on NPR?s ‘Talk of the Nation’ | Kaiser Permanente News Center – KPNewsCenter coverage of NPR Talk of the Nation, December 13, 2007
- St. Louis-Based Company Attracts Gen. Y Grads — and Used Car Customers – George?s Employment Blawg: St. Louis labor & employment lawyer looks at HR, labor law, and today?s workplace – Example of a company that is catering to GenY – Enterprise rent-a-car
- Secretary Mike Leavitt’s Blog: Electronic Medical Records and the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate – The Administration proposes a requirement of EHR’s at the same time the SGR is fixed. The comments on this post are worth a read as well.
- Permanente Journal – Summer 2006 – Special Issue – Sidney Garfield Centennial, one of the fore-parents of health informatics
