This Week's Healthcare Online News
Med City News
A pediatrician explains how to make patient engagement a partnership not a dictatorship
June,05,2013
by+Stephanie Baum
Many of the patient engagement discussions I hear tend to be focused on how to get patients to do what they’re told and how to get physicians to listen to their patients. So it was great to hear pediatrician Dr. Ivor Horn from Children’s National Medical Center bridge the gap in a panel discussion at the ENGAGE conference by talking about how she views engagement as a partnership.
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Health Data Management
Making Sense of Medicare’s Hospital Charge Data
June,05,2013
by:+Joseph Goedert
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services this spring released for public use huge batches of Medicare hospital inpatient and outpatient cost data to help consumers better compare hospital prices. Now comes a new effort to make the data more usable.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is sponsoring a $120,000 challenge to software developers to improve consumer understanding and use of all that data that shows a wide range of prices across more than 3,000 hospitals for 100 common inpatient procedures.
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Fierce Health IT
Todd Park: Patient engagement will 'vastly' improve healthcare
June,07,2013
By:+Dan Bowman
Addressing a packed room at the Health Privacy Summit in Washington, D.C., this week, U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park emphasized the importance of federal efforts to engage patients in their own healthcare.
"We're in the middle of a huge cultural shift to get patients access to their records," Park said. "Patient engagement--to quote Leonard Kish--may be the blockbuster drug of the 21st Century. This will vastly improve our healthcare system."
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Med City News
Mayo doc: Stop blaming patients. Healthcare industry’s take on non-compliance is all wrong
June,05,2013
by:+Deanna Pogorelc
Dr. Victor Montori used this image to illustrate what he, as a physician, sees as the biggest problem in healthcare.
It depicts a tactic that coal miners used to use to detect when dangerous gases were present in the air. When a canary sent into the mine stopped singing, they knew toxic gases had leaked into the mine.
In this Mayo Clinic doctor’s mind, patients are the canaries, and when they stop singing – or in this case, when they stop complying with what their doctors have recommended or stop going to the doctor to begin with — the healthcare system has become toxic.
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