Posted in Cooperation in Health Care, IDCOP, Information Flow, K, Measurement, Medication System, Safety, Organizational Development, Spread, Systems, CAS, Transformation, patient centered on Oct 10th, 2004 No Comments »
Well I have been silent for quite a long time.
I have been trying to find my way forward for months.
The groups working on Pursuing Perfection in Whatcom County have accomplished much: Direct involvement of patients in the design of chronic care system and processes, Shared Care Plan, Clinical Care Specialist role, Groups Visits, [...]
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Shared Care Plan. This is a very exciting program. Shared Care Plan is clearly a major step forward in improving the communication between… [:: Chemo Chronicles '04 ::]
Craig Miles writes, “As a cancer patient, I deal with my cancer as a chronic illness and I found this document to be better than anything I had [...]
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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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Building Trust, by Flores and Solomon is a really good book. I rank it with The Wisdom of Insecurity, by Alan Watts as two of the most mind altering books I have read. Watts turned the conventional wisdom of insecurity on it's head, essentially showing that security or fixedness is closer to death and that insecurity [...]
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A friend of mine, Gervase Bushe, wrote a very useful book: Clear Leadership. The insights and framework are based upon his career as a professor and business consultant
Clear Leadership is full of practical and immediately useful mental models and advice. Organizations are beginning to use it as a framework for leadership training at all levels.
After reading this book, I [...]
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I have gradually come to realize that I unconsciously make a binary choice each time I think or act. I get out of my bed either on the defensive side or the learning side.
I either start my day holding on to… you name it. Or, I start my day open, willing and interested in [...]
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The Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the British Medical Journal with support from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and others have developed a very useful site, QualityHealthcare.org, for anyone working on healthcare improvement. If you have not seen this, log-in and take a look around. It is free.
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