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Kent Bottles: Is the Internet Good or Bad for You?
Paro the robot baby harp seal was the final straw. I had vowed to myself not to think about or write about “the internet makes you smarter, the internet makes you dumber” argument. Even when some of...
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Kent Bottles: Maybe Being Wrong is Better and More Human than Being Right
St. Augustine: “Fallor ergo sum” When I was in charge of the medical residency programs in Grand Rapids, Michigan, David Leach introduced me to the expanded Dreyfus Model of how physicians can progress...
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Kent Bottles: Will CER Really Make a Difference if the Public Doesn’t Want It?
Yesterday I was lucky to be invited to a New England Healthcare Institute discussion entitled “From Evidence to Practice: Making CER Findings Work for Providers and Patients “ in Washington, DC. How...
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Janet Schuerman: Shared Decision Making
If you’ve heard or read about Shared Decision Making (SDM) and are unclear on exactly what it is, you are not alone. After reviewing study after white paper after article by the experts on this topic,...
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Janet Schuerman: Shared Decision Making, Part 2
Unweaving the relational elements of Shared Decision Making (SDM) is at best a two-blog process. Part One of this blog explored the overall supporting framework for SDM. In quick review, the SDM...
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Jim Trevis: Are You Still Following Your Medical Dreams?
I’ve been feeling exceptionally good recently. Part is due to my son being selected as one of 50 college students to get a scholarship to the Telluride Film Festival. My daughter Laura, the world...
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Jim Trevis: Why Do Many Oppose Evidence-based Health Care?
In my role as director of communications with ICSI, I get to see real collaborative work done between providers, health plans and patients to improve the quality and lower the cost of health care. For...
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Jan Schuerman: Je Suis Venue. J’ai Appris. Je Me Souviendrai.
They came from the far reaches of the globe and differed in so many ways. Their native tongues differed. The way they structured and delivered health care was different. The degree to which they can...
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Janet Schuerman: The iPad is a Reported Carrier of Infectious Engagement”
You have undoubtedly already read many tales of how the iPad has changed a life, so I won’t bore you with details of how giving my 89-year-old mother an iPad created a You Tube/Netflix/eBook/E-mail...
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Creating Health: Finding the Path from Here to There
By Thomas Kottke, MD, MSPH and Nico Pronk, PhD The advances in the treatment of cardiovascular disease in the past 50 years are remarkable. Automated external defibrillators (AEDs), the devices you see...
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RARE Campaign Prevents 4,570 Avoidable Hospital Readmissions
Helps patients spend 18,280 more nights of sleep in their own beds A broad-based coalition of hospitals and care providers working across the continuum of care has prevented 4,570 avoidable hospital...
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Needed Changes for Accountable Care Measures and the Triple Aim
Janet Corrigan, PhD, MBA, previous President and CEO of the National Quality Forum, recently led a discussion with the ICSI Board of Directors on efforts to build a value-based measurement framework to...
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Removing the Stigma of Depression
Recently, I attended a learning forum on ICSI’s work to integrate behavioral health into primary care. This forum reviewed five years of Minnesota medical groups implementing the DIAMOND (Depression...
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Social Determinants Helped Determine My Health in 2013
The fifth annual County Health Rankings, prepared by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, recently came out. Minnesota fared quite well nationally. But I was more interested in how...
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