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Clinical innovation: ER docs sees text messages as potential tool for primary care
After text messages significantly improved outcomes for patients after discharge from the ER, this doc sees the potential for texting between patients and providers to coordinate and streamline primary care, too.

By Freeman Favors, III, M.D....
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Posted by Sonya Collins in Progress Notes May 23, 2013 10:20 am EDT

Doctor launches journal of innovative practices
Inspired by clinical innovations he learned about during his tenure with the Obama Administration’s Comparative Effectiveness Research program, Amol Navathe wished there was a forum to share such practices with clinicians who could benefit from them.  That’s...
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Posted by Sonya Collins in Progress Notes May 21, 2013 10:09 am EDT

Geriatrics house calls: Seeing the whole person
A house call during his first year of residency has helped this doctor remember that every patient is a human being with a story not just a disease.
 
By Aftab Iqbal, M.D.
 
During my ambulatory care rotation, I got...
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Posted by Sonya Collins in Progress Notes May 16, 2013 9:14 am EDT

Family health strategy: Primary care innovation in Rio de Janeiro
When this medical student traveled to Brazil on a Fulbright Fellowship to work in a community health center, she found that everyone could access comprehensive, community-based, team-based primary care for free. She shares here some lessons for our own health care...
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Posted by Sonya Collins in Progress Notes May 14, 2013 12:39 pm EDT

Where are the nursing stories?
We close our National Nurses Week series with an impassioned call to action that ran yesterday on HealthCetera, the Hunter College Center for Health, Media and Policy's...
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Posted by Sonya Collins in Progress Notes May 10, 2013 7:54 am EDT

Nurse learns the value of teams
A nurse in an HIV clinic wanted to train her nurse and physician colleagues to be dietitians until she learned that the most effective approach for patients and the most efficient use of patients' and providers' time was to bring dietitians on board with her team. Read...
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Posted by Sonya Collins in Progress Notes May 9, 2013 8:39 am EDT
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Amol, thank you for sharing your experience with moving patient-centered innovation into health care focus and pr...
by Alyssa Vecchio on Doctor launches journal of...
This sounds like a great idea that more clinics should be using! Your use of TextConnect sounds like such a creative a...
by Stephanie Aines on Clinical innovation: ER docs...
What a nice perspective. It sounds like that house call had an impact that you'll carry with you for a long time. Great...
by Catherine Rizos on Geriatrics house calls:...
Fantastic post! During my time in Brazil I also felt like we could stand to learn quite a bit from their system, both on...
by Joshua St. Louis on Family health strategy:...
I lived in Brazil for several years and got great care from these places on a couple of occasions. I'd love to see more n...
by Sonya Collins on Family health strategy:...