Eight Minutes To Change Their Lives: Leveraging Health 2.0 in Practice

Eight Minutes To Change Their Lives: Leveraging Health 2.0 in Practice
Health 2.0 technology is all about patient empowerment and giving patients the information they need to make an impact on their own healthcare. While my colleagues and I have been writing about Health 2.0 tech for some time, it was with great interest that we held a recent conversation with Dr. Jeff Livingston, who is leveraging it to educate and empower the patients he serves in his busy Irving, Texas, MacArthur obstetrics and gynecology practice. As Dr. Livingston points out, he and his partners frequently have only eight minutes to spend with their patients, important decisions need to be made, and this short time can have a life-changing effect on outcomes. Using technology has helped him to maximize the impact and role he plays in this short time with his patients.

Best Practices: Eight Minutes to Change Their Lives (report)(requires registration)

Patient Education Video Series

Patient Education Video Series by Paul Levy and Val Jones

Denmark runs telehealth pilots

Denmark runs telehealth pilots
25 Sep 2009
"Denmark has rolled-out two telehealth pilots it now intends to implement nationally over the next three years. One of the pilots, already rolled-out at the Odense University Hospital, involves using a video conferencing service to allow foreign patients who don’t speak Danish to communicate with hospital staff. The service uses a video conferencing system, linked to a call centre with multi-lingual operators, who can translate a persons needs or problems immediately to help them receive a better diagnosis. Claus said “The way we want to deal with the amount of foreign patients that we have difficulty communicating with is by using a video conferencing system and using a centre with interpreters. The method has already been tested in a pilot for the last five months and shown that much better interpretations including professional interpretations have been made.”

October is Patient-Centered Care Awareness Month,

Patient-Centered Care Awareness by Brian Ahier
"October is Patient-Centered Care Awareness Month, but many do not even know what patient-centered care is or how important this philosophy is to health reform. I have written previously on some aspects of patient-centered care (such as letting a patient see and even make their own chart notes). I suggest you see this post first if you have not read it yet, and especially watch the fun video clip so that you are in the right frame of mind for this discussion. Healthcare has been evolving away from a "disease-centered model" and toward a "patient-centered model." I look forward to the focus on patient-centered care this month."

How Engaged Are Consumers in Their Health and Health Care, and Why Does It Matter

U of Minnesota Medical Center’s nurses ditch their pagers

The Effect of Patient Race and Blood Pressure Control on Patient-Physician ...

The Effect of Patient Race and Blood Pressure Control on Patient-Physician ...

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Participatory Health

Online and mobile tools help the chronically ill manage their care (California)

IHI Open School for Health Professions

The IHI Open School for Health Professions is an interprofessional educational community that gives students the skills to become change agents in health care improvement. We’re talking about skills like quality improvement, patient safety, teamwork, leadership, and patient-centered care. Employers are looking for these skills, and patients expect providers to have them. But most schools barely touch on these topics. We’re here to fill that void. Here's what the IHI Open School can offer you:

• Online courses written by world-renowned faculty. Boost your skills and your resume anywhere you have Internet access. 
  
• A network of students like you.  Connect with students from other professions, states, and countries, through our online discussions and face-to-face campus Chapters.
  
• Case studies, podcasts, videos, featured articles — and a bounty of other online resources. 
  
• IHI Certificates of Completion (coming soon).  We will soon offer certificates of completion in quality improvement, patient safety, and other topics. 
   
  Students in nursing, medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, policy, and other health professions can think of the IHI Open School as their “other school” — an educational community that’s free and open no matter where they are.

There are no applications, no admissions requirements, and no due dates.
The IHI Open School — including all of our online tools and resources, and our online courses — is open and free for students of all health care professions.  During this limited prototyping phase, we are also making these resources available for free to non-students.

Youtube Channel

A Healthy Addiction: Acupuncture replaces drug abuse

A Healthy Addiction: Acupuncture replaces drug abuse

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Patient-Centered Medical Home Demonstration

Group Health Cooperative based study

"A patient-centered medical home (PCMH) demonstration was undertaken at 1 healthcare system, with the goals of improving patient experience, lessening staff burnout, improving quality, and reducing downstream costs. Five design principles guided development of the PCMH changes to staffing, scheduling, point-of-care, outreach, and management....
After adjusting for baseline, PCMH patients reported higher ratings than controls on 6 of 7 patient experience scales. For staff burnout, 10% of PCMH staff reported high emotional
exhaustion at 12 months compared with 30% of controls, despite similar rates at baseline. PCMH
patients also had gains in composite quality between 1.2% and 1.6% greater than those of other patients. PCMH patients used more e-mail, phone, and specialist visits, but fewer emergency services. At 12 months, there were no significant differences in overall costs."

The New Life of e-Patient Dave: Help create my talk at Medicine 2.0 in Toronto: "Gimme my damn data"

The New Life of e-Patient Dave: Help create my talk at Medicine 2.0 in Toronto: "Gimme my damn data"

Wordles for health care research?

Johnathan Feinberg, the developer of Wordles has been exploring the way it can be used not only to analyse the difference between texts but communicate the differences graphically. He used the inaugural addresses of US Presidents but there will be many other uses, for example in comparing what patients and health care professional write or say.

When we adapt do we spread & implement effectively?

When we adapt do we spread & implement effectively?

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Cambridge Consultants - Cambridge Consultants brings the 'connected patient' concept to life

Cambridge Consultants - Cambridge Consultants brings the 'connected patient' concept to life

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