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A Breath of Fresh Air for Health Care – Opinionator Blog – NYTimes.com

December 15th, 2009 | Popularity: 5%
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A Breath of Fresh Air for Health Care – Opinionator Blog – NYTimes.com – Nice article about Kaiser Permanente’s work to create the Total Health Environment. I have seen this up close in several facilities I have been to and I think it shows a great commitment to managing the environment where health care is provided. When an organization doesn’t pay attention to the environment within its walls, how can it pay attention to the one outside of its walls?

I also would like to note that in these spaces, Kaiser Permanente purchases and displays art from local artists in the communities that it serves. Here’s a piece from the Colorado Springs Medical Office:

Would Tort Reform Lower Costs? – Prescriptions Blog – NYTimes.com

September 11th, 2009 | Popularity: 2%
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e-patients: New York Times Health Section

October 4th, 2008 | Popularity: 15%
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e-patients: New York Times Health Section

Read the comments and watch how patients lean and teach each other about how they can thrive in our health care system, and how we can perform better for them. This is a revolution.

I’m not disfigured from it but I learned my lesson: do not tolerate professionals who think we shouldn’t be privy to our medical data, much less the chance that we might have something to contribute. But we do.

Quoted in the New York Times : Many Seek Second Opinions From Health Sites and Online Communities – NYTimes.com

September 30th, 2008 | Popularity: 19%
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Many 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.