Tiffany Liu and Karl Koenig In today’s health care system, patients must struggle through a dizzying array of obstacles to receive their care, with little opportunity or support to become effective advocates in their own care. As a result, patients see multiple specialists before an effective treatment plan is implemented and often undergo duplicative and … Continue reading
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Beyond Models: The Compassionate Intersection of Clinical Medicine, Sociobehavioral Health Determinants, and Delivery System Transformation
Abhishek Dalal and Uyen Phan In the September 2018 issue of Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation, meet Amy Boutwell, MD, MPP and read this blog post for an enhanced understanding of the significance of Dr. Boutwell’s thought leadership and the field of delivery science in a manner aligned with social medicine’s … Continue reading
Helping the most vulnerable: using patient navigators to strengthen health systems in Guatemala
Katia Cnop, Jessica Hawkins, Anita Chary, David Flood, Kirsten Austad, Boris Martinez, Waleska Lopez, Peter Rohloff As Rosita walks through the halls towards her first radiology appointment, she cannot read a single sign. Nurses speak in Spanish nearby, but she cannot understand what they are saying. She passes women who look like her, dressed in … Continue reading
Implementation of a multidisciplinary, team-based model to treat chronic hepatitis C in the primary care setting: Lessons Learned
Randi Sokol, Jessica Early, Amanda Barner, Sarah Gottfried, Richard Gumpert, Lorky Libaridian, Virginia Morrison, Alexandra Santamaria, and Linda Shipton While the opioid overdose epidemic has become palpable across our country, another associated problem is rising to crisis levels: over the past five years, there has been a nearly 300% increase in the number of new … Continue reading
Finding the Joy in Medicine: Using Scribes in Primary Care
Jennifer Childs-Roshak, MD, MBA Much has been made of finding the joy in medicine of late as more patients seek care, fewer physicians are trained for primary care and electronic medical record (EMR) systems become more sophisticated. Primary care clinician burnout is at epic proportions. Population health is often hailed as one way to … Continue reading
Is it Time for a HIPAA for Physicians?
By Sarah Gebauer, Timothy Petersen, Elizabeth A Steele Since we wrote our opinion paper, Is it time for a HIPAA for physicians?, the collection and release of clinical quality ratings data has accelerated, as well as the controversies surrounding such data. The quality of the data themselves, in addition to the collection and reporting of … Continue reading
Beyond the Dartmouth Atlas – Regional Variation in Private Health Care Spending
By Gregory Curfman, MD The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, compiled over the past several decades, is a unique data source on geographic variations in health care spending and practices. Such regional variations may be quite marked and present illuminating trends in practice patterns. Conclusions drawn from the Dartmouth Atlas, however, are limited by the fact that the Atlas … Continue reading
