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Condition H

False boundaries in health care

May 17, 2014 By Susannah Fox 39 Comments

Light bulbs in the night sky - a photo by Ted Eytan

Clayton Christensen gave a talk at last week’s SMARTHealthIT board meeting on, as he put it, how people think. I was absorbed by his storytelling, so only wrote down a few concepts: We make assumptions based on false correlations (and we should guard against that tendency). Data and maps are verbs, not nouns, and they never tell the […]

Filed Under: positive patterns, pt/doc co-care Tagged With: Clayton Christensen, Condition H, Flip the Clinic, learning health system, SMARTHealthIT, SMS

“As She Lay Dying” – a son calls on the health system to involve patients and families in improving safety

December 3, 2012 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Three lines of far away mountain ranges

Warning: this doesn’t end well. Not for anyone in the story. Unless it changes you, as it did me. Jonathan Welch, MD, teaches at Harvard Medical School and practices in the ER at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. But, as is often the case in life, the information that really matters is more personal: […]

Filed Under: hc's problem list Tagged With: Condition H, Health Affairs, medical errors

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