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The Surprising Shared Care Plan, and what patients and families are doing with it

Posted in Access, Congestive Heart Failure, Cooperation in Health Care, Diabetes, IDCOP on Mar 21st, 2004 Comments Off

A few days ago a group of patients and their families talked to Ed Wagner about their experiences in Pursuing Perfection in Whatcom county.  Each of these patients had a clinical care specialists and a shared care plan. What I heard changed my thinking. They described the role of the shared care plan differently than [...]

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Dawn Gauthier reports on Shared Care Plan award

Posted in Access, Information Flow, Medication System, Safety, patient centered on Nov 20th, 2003 Comments Off

PatientPowered.org wins award! PatientPowered.org was recently recognized by receiving a silver eHealthcare Leadership Award in the category “Best Care/Disease Management Site”. This award was presented by eHealthcare Strategy and Trends at their annual “Leveraging Technology and the Internet” conference … (click here to read)

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From Programs to Movements

Posted in Access, Cooperation in Health Care, Organizational Development, Spread, Transformation on Oct 21st, 2003 Comments Off

The Bureau of Primary Health Care has successfully jump started the 100% Access 0 Disparity movement in America. Spokane, WA area is implementing a similar approch. There is a summary of the BPHC experience that is very enlightening, if you wish to switch from projects and programs to “movements”. I highly recommend reading it if you [...]

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Advanced Access–a Key to System Improvement

Posted in Access, Cooperation in Health Care, Spread, Systems, CAS, Transformation on Sep 20th, 2003 Comments Off

Several doctors at the WA State Medical Society meeting ask for more information on what Advanced Access is. So I put a web page together with some good references. Just click on “web page”. I am skeptical that rapid improvement can occur until most physicians have taken this step. It is a happy circumstance that [...]

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Presentation to WA State Medical Society House of Delegates

Posted in Access, Cooperation in Health Care, patient centered, Spread, Systems, CAS on Sep 20th, 2003 Comments Off

Yesterday I had the privilege of talking about our Pursuing Perfection initiative with the house of delegates for the Washington State Medical Society. Below I have included to content of my 11 slides and my notes. PURSUING PERFECTION in Whatcom County, WA SLIDE 1, TITLE SLIDE: PURSUING PERFECTION WHAT'S IN A NAME? Perfection? …when things [...]

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