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Crystalizing Healthcare in a Community?

Posted in Cooperation in Health Care, Critical Junctures Institute, patient centered, Systems, CAS, Transparency, Uncategorized, Whatcom County Health on Apr 3rd, 2010 3 Comments »

Upon what can the parts of health care come together into a coherent whole. No metaphor works well if extended very far; certainly not inorganic crystals. But let’s play with this for a moment to get some use from it. There are a lot of parts of health care swirling in the community. How can [...]

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Systems and Maps, Actions and Theories

Posted in Cooperation in Health Care, IDCOP, Information Flow, K, Measurement, Medication System, Safety, Organizational Development, patient centered, Spread, Systems, CAS, Transformation on Oct 10th, 2004 Comments Off

  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 [...]

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Trust as a Verb and Insecurity as a Good Thing

Posted in Cooperation in Health Care, Information Flow, Organizational Development, Systems, CAS, Transformation, Transparency on Feb 1st, 2004 Comments Off

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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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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