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Wow! How? Learning Health Networks

June 13, 2024 By Susannah Fox 1 Comment

Wow! How? Health

In 2007, pediatric gastroenterologists began tracking and sharing best practices as they cared for kids with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Their “all teach, all learn” philosophy invited patients and families to participate as key members of the care innovation teams. The results have been astonishing: 82% of patients in the ImproveCareNow network of 100+ […]

Filed Under: Networkers, Seekers, Solvers Tagged With: ImproveCareNow, learning health system, Rebel Health, ulcerative colitis, Wow! How? Health

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

Superheroes and rock stars at the Institute of Medicine

October 14, 2009 By Susannah Fox 7 Comments

Update: National Cancer Policy Forum published a book based on the workshop, A Foundation for Evidence-Based Practice: A Rapid Learning System for Cancer Care, which you can buy, read online for free, or download as a PDF. The discussion portion of this panel was captured in a short video. ___________________ The Institute of Medicine’s recent […]

Filed Under: key people, Why PM Tagged With: ACOR, Amy Abernethy, Annals Of Internal Medicine, Carolyn Clancy, Chordoma, Clinical Trials, Dartmouth, Emory, Gilles Frydman, Institute Of Medicine, Jamie Heywood, learning health system, Lynn Etheredge, Oncology, Paul Wallace, Transparency, Vanderbilt, Youtube

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