Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber has signed a law that will create new regional entities, called coordinated care organizations. Kitzhaber says the plan will improve care, reduce costs and serve as a model for the rest of the nation.

Tags: coordinated care, health care model, Kitzhaver, mentor, Oregon, personalized health care; responsible organizations

Many health promotion activities like screening tests don’t actually promote health, but instead promote disease. This New York Times article, Overdiagnosis as a Flaw of Health Care, states that health practitioners bring healthy patients in for disease screening and prevention reasons they are actually boundary spanning in ways that may have more to do with finding and treating disease than they do with enabling and promoting health.

Tags: health promotion, New York Times, personalized health care, prevention, screening

• Monday, Feb. 6
• 4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
• Drinks & Nibbles afterwards
• BioEnterprise Building, 11000 Cedar Ave., Cleveland, OH
• Downstairs conference room
• Free Parking
• All Welcome

Laura Nasir, BSN, MSN, RN, FNP, PhD-S, has spent the past three years as an embedded researcher in the National Health Service in the United Kingdom, collecting case studies across primary and secondary health care, focusing on the Ealing community in London. She will share insights on effective multidisciplinary collaboration in primary care organizations, examining the best ways to build bridges between primary care and behavioral health, chronic care, social care, child and family services, and acute/hospital care. Professor Nasir brings a perspective on health and health care from both sides of the ocean. She is a clinical assistant professor at the School of Nursing, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and is a visiting lecturer at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kings College, London.

Tags: boundary spanning, case studies, Ealing community, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, health care system, Laura Nasir, London, multidisciplinary, Nasir, National Health Service, primary care, public health, research, University of North Carolina

Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans.

Tags: community, prevention, Social determinants, well-being

Moving beyond health care to a broader view of health as a state that enables people to do valued life activities can totally reframe our health promotion efforts. The work of the boundary spanner is needed in research, education, systems development, and practice.

Tags: American Journal of Preventive Medicine, boundary spanning, Case Western Reserve University, health, health care reform, health promotion, Heide Aungst, Kurt Stange, Mary Ruhe, PHAB, primary care

Frontline: Doctor Hotspot

New Yorker writer and FRONTLINE correspondent Atul Gawande reports on a doctor in Camden, New Jersey, who actually seeks out the community's sickest -- and most expensive -- patients.

Tags: Atul Gawande, Camden NJ, Frontline, health care costs, health care model, personalized health care, Social determinants

A Follow-Up Visit With A Country Doctor

Listen to the NPR story about Dr. David Loxterkamp, a family physician in Maine and an early supporter of the PHAB initiative.

Tags: David Loxterkamp, family medicine, Maine, NPR, Patient-Centered Medical Home

Understanding Healing Relationships in Primary Care

This article from the Annals of Family Medicine presents a model for how physicians develop and maintain healing relationships with patients.

Tags: clinician-patient relationship, doctor-patient relationship, family medicine, healing, healing relationships, health care model, John Scott, New Brunswick, New Jersey, patient-centered, personalized health care, physician-patient relationship, primary care, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

Opimec

Opimec is a collaborative virtual environment designed to promote the exchange of knowledge and best practices among individuals and organizations interested Complex Chronic Disease Management (CCDM), at all levels, from the local to the global.

Tags: Alejandro Jadad, Alex Jadad, best practices, Canada, CCDM, chronic disease, complex chronic disease management, eHealth, global health, global partnerships, health care model, information technology, innovation, personalized health care, research, social networks, Spain, technology, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto General Research Institute, University Health Network

Group Health’s Move to The Medical Home: For Doctors, It’s Often a Hard Journey

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Group Health of Seattle successfully embraces the patient-centered medical home (PCMH).

Tags: access, clinician-patient relationship, Group Health, Health Affairs, health care model, health care reform, information technology, patient-centered, Patient-Centered Medical Home, PCMH, personalized health care, physician-patient relationship, primary care, Seattle, technology, Washington