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My First Post for Mashable: How Seniors, Boomers Embrace Digital – Aging Online – “I have been collecting data on this blog for a couple months, and I started to see some interesting trends. People talk anecdotally about how older adults are using new technologies (or stereotypically not using technology) but I didn’t see anyone …
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Dr. Jack Cochran Returns From Tanzania | Dispatches From…. – This is a new blog produced by Kaiser Permanente, that highlights the service work, on a global scale, of Kaiser Permanente leaders and staff. Today’s post is by Jack Cochran, MD, who’s the Executive Director of The Permanente Federation (where I work). The photos are …
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The Salzburg Statement on Shared Decision Making | e-Patients.net – Nice summary by @epatientdave about the Salzburg statement, changing the conversation from “informed consent” to “informed choice.” If you read the post, you’ll see that they’ve though of things in the context of current medical practice and have a good understanding of the hurdles.
Kaiser Permanente 2009 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Report – Speaking of environmental stewardship, this is Kaiser Permanente’s report on its work to protect the environment and health of communities through reduced greenhouse gas emissions. To understand the background and commitment, I recommend reading this page on Environmental Stewardship from the Kaiser Permanente Community Benefit Report for …
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Health Digital Check-Up: Physicians and Social Media | Edelman Digital – There are two time-tested ways to get a doctor’s attention: (a) bring facts, lots of ‘em, and good ones, and (b) publish them in a peer-reviewed medical journal. This is a blog post written from the communications professional perspective, by one of my co-authors …
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Physicians on Twitter — Chretien et al. 305 (6): 566 — One hundred forty-four tweets (3%) were categorized as unprofessional. Thirty-eight tweets (0.7%) represented potential patient privacy violations, 33 (0.6%) contained profanity, 14 (0.3%) included sexually explicit material, and 4 (0.1%) included discriminatory statements.
Powering Up the AT&T Foundry to Power Up Innovation | ATT Innovation Space – Blog post from AT&T with nice video describing the launch of their innovation center in Plano Texas. I see lots of post-it notes in their midst. In the description of what the Center will do from the separate press release: “Initial …
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The Conversation Prism by Brian Solis and JESS3 – Beautiful infographics depicting the twitter and socialmediasphere. More great work done in collaboration with @JESS3 . I realize, as I’m sure many others do who do work in social media that I know most of the items/services on the Twitterverse 2 infographic. It is interesting to …
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Steve’s Cancer – Steve Dorner is known to many around the world as the author of Eudora, the e-mail software that many people, including myself, used to discover the Internet for the very first time. He now has cancer and is documenting the discovery through his treatment on this blog, including but not limited to …
Regina Holliday’s Medical Advocacy Blog: May The Force Be With Us – I think the day will come when all of us will be lucky enough to be portrayed in art created by Regina Holliday (@reginaholliday). As the post discusses, there’s an upcoming social justice camp (@SocJustCampDC) in Washington, DC, (two, two, weekends, you can …
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The Role of Social Media in Engaging Patients, Employees and the Media | Ragan Store – See you in Seattle.
Health Business Blog Podcast, Dr. Ted Eytan of Kaiser on health IT, walking meetings, innovation – “In this podcast interview, Ted speaks about his role at Kaiser Permanente and how he got there, the ways life is changing for patients and their families as electronic health records and personal health records roll out, and the potential for mobile health …
Brain scan: Making data dance | The Economist – This is an article and a companion greatest hits page about the work of Hans Rosling, who uses innovative approaches to visualizing data to inform people: Instead of bar charts and histograms, Dr Rosling uses Lego bricks, IKEA boxes and data-visualisation software developed by his Gapminder …
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HIMSS Analytics: Healthcare IT Data, Research, and Analysis – Current list of Stage 7 hospitals, 52 as of November, 2010 – an update on my recent presentations – The current number of HIMSS Stage 7 Hospitals in the United States is 52. 34 of those hospitals are Kaiser Permanente facilities.
Dear ONC: Nothing about me without my input. Design with me. – Great post from physician colleague at Department of Veteran’s Affairs, @SueWoods . In particular – A. Practice participatory design in federal health IT policy and programs. Rather than a media campaign to “help consumers understand” HIT policies, stakeholders should gather more information about …
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How provider competition can improve health care delivery – McKinsey Quarterly – Health Care – Strategy & Analysis – A good overview of some of the evidence around the benefit of competition in specialized and not so specialized care. Relevant to those interested in reducing information assymetry. Of relevance to those interested in personal health …
Why governments must lead the fight against obesity – McKinsey Quarterly – Health Care – Strategy & Analysis – I think this is very well written and specifically outlines the costs, and some best practices, with references. Examples include Dow Chemical’s employee wellness success and Fleurbaix, France ‘s efforts in childhood obesity. Quote re: costs …
Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index – DC is hard to find broken out, it is mixed in with Virginia. This is a little hard for us since Virginia has such a distinctive approach to human rights relative to DC (and the data shows that regions that don’t support diversity have unhappier residents). I’ve had a dialogue with …
AMA – AMA Policy – Professionalism in the Use of Social Media – This was posted recently and it is a good piece of work that will promote physician (and patient) discussion about the professional role and use of social media. Tip to Jane Sarasohn-Kahn ( @healthythinker ) for writing it up in her I-try-to-read-every-post …
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Managing Yourself: What’s Your Personal Social Media Strategy? – Harvard Business Review – Helpful article about the benefit of social media, written from the leadership perspective.
Mobile Health 2010 | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project – Significant statistics: Cell phone users who are Black have an app on their cell phone to track/manage health 15% of the time, users who are White: 7 %. Users who are Hispanic use a cell phone to look up health info 25%; …
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Shared Savings Program for Accountable Care Organizations: A Bridge to Nowhere? – Nice analysis of some of the challenges of Accountable Care Organizations by Bob Berenson. The discussion about invisible assignment is interesting to me – it basically says “if patients don’t know that they are part of a group whose costs are being closely …
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Ohio State Medical Association – Social Media Toolkit for physicians, office staff and patients – well done! – I really like this, especially the guidance that is positive ("Go Ahead") while being informative about what the risks are. Model policies for use by physician practices are also included. Thanks, @sarasteinmd, for the tip.
The Health Care Blog: Patients 2.0–A Free Meeting by & for Patients, Oct 6 in San Francisco – As part of Health Innovation Week and immediately before Health 2.0, We are having free meeting by and for patients to hear great stories about the revolution going on in patient activism online. Join us to plan …
Carbon War Room – Approach to reducing carbon emissions, funded by Richard Branson, based in the #epicenter. Featured on a recent “Tea With the Economist”.
Proactive Office Encounter: A Systematic Approach to Preventive and Chronic Care at Every Patient Encounter – The POE engaged the entire health team in a proactive patient-care experience, creating standard work flows and using information technology to identify gaps in patient care. The goals were to improve consistency of preventive care and improve quality of …
I think this is my very first post referencing the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) concept, I am behind the times. If you are new to it as well, this policy brief will help you. There is also a helpful pair of blog posts on the Health Affairs blog that argue whether ACO’s will solve problems …
Meet the Creator of @BPGlobalPR: PRSA – A month after the explosion, an anonymous writer who uses the pseudonym “Leroy Stick” launched a Twitter account called @BPGlobalPR to air his grievances about BP’s response and poke fun at the oil giant. As of press time, the handle had 190,035 followers (compared with the verified BP …
Outsourced Call Centers Return, To U.S. Homes : NPR –
Benioff monitors worker communications | ZDNet UK – This story caught my eye because it is referring to Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce.com, that has recently rolled out Chatter, an internal social networking application. There’s a key difference between monitoring what employees voluntarily post on an internal social network and what they write in …
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HealthCamp SFBay | Accelerating Healthcare Innovation – HealthCamp SFBay is a HealthCamp. HealthCamp is a national movement led by volunteers focused on putting social media, open source and the best of the Internet, Mobile Web and process innovation to work for better health care and health technology. It is a user-organized “un–conference” movement that brings …
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Telemedicine and e-Health User-Generated Care: The Integration of Internet-Based Health Information – September, 2010: C. Peter Waegemann, Deresa Claybrook, Ted Eytan, Renée P. McLeod, Steven E. Waldren. Telemedicine and e-Health. September 2010, 16(7): 764-771. doi:10.1089/tmj.2010.9955.
Health Care Innovation Day DC 2010 – n keeping with the its mission to accelerate low cost health care solutions through innovation, the West Wireless Health Institute (WWHI) will host its first Health Care Innovation Day in Washington D.C. (HCI-DC) on October 12.
Discussion about entry: Educating Tuberculosis patients for excellent results | Changemakers – The Ashoka Changemakers competition , patient|choices|empowerment, has provided me interesting food for thought, and exposure to innovators challenged by similar problems in health care to ours. In the linked exchange, Dr. Shelly Batra, educates me about patient empowerment in India. I think there …
Twitter 101 for ObGyns: Pearls, pitfalls, and potential — OBG Management – Kaiser Permanente physician Jennifer Gunter, MD writes a helpful piece about how physicians can use this social network effectively. Nice to see articles about social media in the specialty literature as well.
Texts and tweets help an M.D. connect with her patients | Article | Homepage articles –
Toronto firm licenses mobile app to U.S. health provider –
Retirement: Gen Y’s Empty Piggy Bank – BusinessWeek – Vanguard is testing out social media, using more blogs, a Facebook page, and soon, Twitter. "It's how this younger generation learns," says Vanguard Chief Executive Officer William McNabb III.
F as in Fat 2010 District of Columbia Ranks Third Least Obese in the Nation – Washington, D.C. June 29, 2010 – District of Columbia was named the third least obese state in the country, according to the seventh annual F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America's Future 2010 report from the Trust for …
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