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Community Health Needs Assessment includes the Environment, and Green Health Care Resources



After I had the opportunity to write this post on the Robert Wood Johnson Pioneering Ideas blog (see: Pioneering Idea: Your Patient’s Community Health Needs Assessment on the Desktop – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation), I learned courtesy of the Environmental Stewardship workgroup that I serve on at Kasier Permanente that one of the indicators in the [...]

Photo Friday: OpenNotes Summit Theatre, Washington, DC, USA



Brian Quinn, Farzad Mostashari, MD, Michael Meltser, JD, Tom Delbanco, MD, Jan Walker, RN I’ve written a bit about OpenNotes (@myopennotes) already, so I’d like this post to tell a story via photographs. At one point yesterday, another attendee said to me, “Ted, think about this as theatre,” which I did. You had: Health system CEO’s and other [...]

Now Reading: OpenNotes results are HERE – “little impact on doctors, 99% of patients recommended continuation”



Delbanco T, Walker J, Bell SK, Darer JD, Elmore JG. Inviting Patients to Read Their Doctors’ Notes : A Quasi-experimental Study and a Look Ahead. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2012;157(7) Goldzweig CL. Pushing the Envelope of Electronic Patient Portals to Engage Patients in Their Care. Annals of internal Medicine. 2012;157(7):525–526 Meltsner A. A Patient’s View [...]

OpenNotes results are coming, OpenNotes results are coming!



Three years ago (!), I wrote this post (Now Reading: “Concern that sharing information with patients may cause sustained psychological distress is probably unfounded” | Ted Eytan, MD) that recapped what is now almost 40 years of reasoning, wishing, and hoping, that patients could have access to their own medical records. Remarkable to think that [...]

Role of the Patient is one of the TEDMED Great Challenges, Join us in posing questions now



I consider this to be the “decade of the patient,” which to me means patients will be more involved and more central to what we do in health care than ever. This includes not just access to the information in their medical records, but in the design and operation of the health system itself. Until [...]

Pioneering Ideas: Meet the Pioneer Advisory Group



Pioneering Ideas: Meet the Pioneer Advisory Group. It wasn’t my first question, but it was one of them – “how can I/we use social media to involve others in this work”? And…the team at Pioneer Portfolio has started things off: That is why I am happy to announce that we now have our own esteemed [...]

Project ECHO Blogger Roundtable with Sanjeev Arora, MD – Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health



A doctor’s first blogger roundtable is a very special thing . It was actually my second, too. It happened because Sanjeev Arora, MD , the Director of Project Echo was going to be in Washington, DC, and I wanted to give him a tour of the Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health ( @kptotalhealth ). With the [...]