February 29th, 2012

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 … Continue reading →

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

July 29th, 2011

Frontline: Doctor HotspotNew 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.

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

December 7th, 2010

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.

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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

December 7th, 2010

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.

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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

December 4th, 2010

Group Health’s Move to The Medical Home: For Doctors, It’s Often a Hard Journey (Subscription to Health Affairs online required) Group Health of Seattle successfully embraces the patient-centered medical home (PCMH).

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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

December 3rd, 2010

Southcentral Foundation is an Alaska Native-owned, nonprofit health care organization that works with the Native Community to achieve wellness through comprehensive health-related services that enhance culture and empower individuals and families to take charge of their lives. Continue reading →

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Tags: Alaska, Anchorage, community, culture, Native Americans, Native Community, nonprofit, personalized health care, prevention, preventive care, primary care, public health, wellness

December 2nd, 2010

Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative is a coalition of major employers, consumer groups, patient quality organizations, health plans, labor unions, hospitals, clinicians and others who have joined together to develop and advance the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH). Continue reading →

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Tags: access, delivery, EHR, electronic health records, electronic medical records, EMR, health reform, information technology, Patient-Centered Medical Home, PCMH, personalized health care, policy, prevention, preventive care, primary care, research, technology

December 1st, 2010

Report from the World Health Organization on the effectiveness of primary care as a way to reorient national health systems. Continue reading →

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Tags: access, chronic disease, global health, health care model, health systems, patient-centered, personalized health care, policy, primary care, public health, WHO, World Health Organization

December 1st, 2010

Patients with diabetes and hypertension have better outcomes when they email their doctor. Continue reading →

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Tags: American Medical Association, chronic disease, clinician-patient relationship, diabetes, doctor-patient relationship, eHealth, EHR, electronic health records, electronic medical records, email, EMR, Health Affairs, health information, hypertension, NPR, personalized health care, physician-patient relationship, technology

December 1st, 2010

Three Case Western Reserve University professors discuss how health care reform will impact medical students as they prepare for practice, as well as medical research. Continue reading →

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Tags: Case Western Reserve University, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, chronic disease, Cleveland, CMS, family medicine, George Kikano, health care finance, health care model, health care reform, health care system, J.B. Silvers, Kurt Stange, medical research, Medicus, patient-centered, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, payment, personalized health care, policy, primary care, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Weatherhead School of Management