ICYMI – In Case You Missed It – April 2016 – for Physicians and Physician Leaders
So great to talk with Sacramento ABC 10 on how patients can manage their health care costs. They even included stock footage from KP featuring former CMA president and TPMG physician Paul Phinney!
Health Care
- Brain cancer survivor, advocate and friend Liz Salmi has been simply amazing through her blogs and the inspiration for my 2011 blog post – does America Want Apple or Android in health care as well as my final presentation to the TPMG Board of Directors in May 2014. She’s featured in a new film – The Open Patient – Healing Through Sharing. I believe this is where health care must go next.
- Why I’ve always been a big proponent of one to one coaching for EMR proficiency. Epic Systems Founder and CEO Judy Faulkner, “A number of years ago, I was helping a woman use the system, and she had a screen that she wanted to save without making any changes. So instead of hitting the ‘next page’ button, she just hit the return key eleven times. I said, ‘Let me teach you a trick.’ And she just kind of froze, and she said, ‘Well thanks, but I’m used to this, but I’ll keep doing it this way.’….“So there is this problem of people learning best what they learn first. And then they don’t move to the better things, which is painful for us. Because we know that once they get over the re-learning hurdle, they’ll be better off.” CEO Judy Faulkner Airs Epic’s Views on EHR Interoperability.
- More convenient and accessible care? Don’t expect cost savings across the health care system, but more utilization and demand. When deregulation make flying cheaper and more available, more people flew. Smartphones and laptops cheaper, everyone has one. So why should health care be different? The Undeniable Convenience and Reliability of Retail Health Clinics.
- Cleveland Clinic is extending their brand and reach. If integrated care is going to be the dominant way Americans get care, it needs to break out of its niche. Cleveland Clinic Makes An Important Step To Take Telehealth Mainstream: The brand-name hospital has partnered with CVS’s MinuteClinics and American Well.
Outside Health Care
- Shows how little we know as doctors and people. Did you know? Apple’s short film on autism proves that accessibility features matter. See Dillion’s story below.
- With higher education costs rising faster than health care, perhaps disruption was inevitable with cheaper and far better experiences for the 21st century. Have you heard about Minerva College founded in 2012? “students don’t stay in one place during their four-year education. They spend time in up to seven residence houses in San Francisco; Berlin; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Seoul, South Korea; Bangalore, India; Istanbul; and London… As you travel the world with a tight-knit cohort of classmates, you will establish weekly rituals and organize interest- and activity-based groups… By exploring each new place together, you form lasting friendships and a collective identity — one defined by shared values and a common sense of purpose.”
- The Power of Social Media. Fan compiles video clips of NBA Taiwanese basketball player Jeremy Lin being flagrantly fouled and no referee call. I have no idea whether the no calls were the right calls, what I do know is that an individual can force an organization, like the NBA, to have to respond very publicly. Non-market forces indeed.
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Davis! Thanks for sharing the documentary. I would love to learn more sometime about how you have included me in your presentations to TPMG over the years. (And yes, I am happy to have opted in to that.) What has been their response?